How to Make DVD Copy Faster

DVD burning and copying is becoming increasingly easy and more commonplace with advances in copying technology. With DVD burning, users record content from other DVDs, videos or files and copy it onto blank discs, for viewing on the new disc. While burning DVDs used to take several hours, now it can be done in far less than an hour. Advances in burners, recorders and discs all speed the process, but with some additional methods you can copy DVDs even more quickly.

Difficulty: Moderate

Instructions

Things You'll Need:

• DVD burner/recorder
• Blank DVD-Rs

1. Record the content for your new copied DVDs onto your DVD burner internal hard drive. Whether this content is from other DVDs, from videos or from content saved to your computer, saving it to your hard drive allows for faster copying and allows you to make multiple copies if necessary with recopying content.

2. Access the DVD burner main menu and go to the "Record a DVD" menu. Change the burning options to the internal hard drive. This method is faster than the real-time burning used for copying directly from a source.

3. Select the scenes or clips you would like burn and arrange them in burning order.

4. Set your DVD burner to its fastest burning speed. Increasing the speed lowers the quality if there is too much content on the DVD, so be sure to keep a useable amount of content on your hard drive before burning. Most blank DVD-Rs hold approximately 4.7 GB of content. Recording between 3.25 and 3.75 GB of content on each disc will allow you to burn quickly and maintain the quality of your content without overloading a disc. Set the speed at the fastest and click copy.

References

• Copying DVDs