Initializing recordable dvd discs, Recording, Initializing recordable dvd – Pioneer DVR-550HX-S User Manual

Page 71: Discs

Recording

Load the disc you want to finalize.

Make sure that the recorder is stopped
before proceeding.

Select ‘Disc Setup’ from the

Home Menu.

Select ‘Finalize’ > ‘Finalize’ >

‘Next Screen’.

For DVD-R/-RW (Video mode)

and DVD+R/+RW discs only, select a title
menu style, then select ‘Yes’ to start
finalization or ‘No’ to cancel.

The menu you select will be the one that
appears when the ‘top menu’ (or ‘menu’ for
a DVD+R/+RW) is selected on any DVD
player.

• Discs recorded partially or fully on the

Pioneer DVR-7000 DVD recorder do not
support this feature. These discs will
have only a text title menu when finalized
on this recorder.

The recorder will now start finalizing

the disc.

During finalization:

• If the finalization process of a DVD-RW

or DVD+R/+RW disc is going to take
more than around four minutes, you can
press

ENTER

to cancel. Around four

minutes before completion, the option to
cancel disappears.

• You can’t cancel the finalization of a VR

mode DVD-R disc.

• How long finalization takes depends on

the type of disc, how much is recorded
on the disc and the number of titles on
the disc. A disc recorded in VR mode can
take up to one hour to finalize. DVD-R/
-RW (Video mode) and DVD+R/+RW
discs can take up to 20 minutes.

Initializing recordable DVD

discs

DVD-R/-RW discs can be initialized for either
Video mode recording or VR mode

recording.

When you first load a blank DVD-RW or
DVD+RW disc, the recorder initializes it for
recording automatically. By default, blank
DVD-RW discs are initialized for VR mode
recording. See

DVD-RW Auto Initialize

page 72 if you want to change the default to
Video mode.

DVD-R discs are ready for Video mode
recordings out of the box; if you want to use
a DVD-R for VR mode recording, you must
initialize it before recording anything on the
disc.

DVD+RW and DVD-RAM discs can also be
initialized in order to erase the contents of
the disc.

HOME MENU

ENTER

Basic
Initialize
Finalize
Optimize HDD

Disc Setup

Finalize

Undo Finalize

Next Screen

Start

Finalize

ENTER

Finalize

Note

1 If a disc was previously finalized on an older DVD recorder, you may not be able to re-initialize and/or initialize

it for Video mode recording.

DVD-R DVD-RW DVD+RW DVD-RAM

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