Initializing A Recordable Dvd Disc - Pioneer DVR530 Operating Instructions Manual

06 Recording
2 Press HOME MENU and select 'Disc Setup'.
3 Select 'Finalize'.
Disc Setup
Basic
Initialize
Finalize
Finalize
Optimize HDD
4 Select 'Finalize' from the finalize options, then
'Next Screen'.
5 For Video mode 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' is selected on any DVD player.
Finalize
• 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.
6 The recorder will now start finalizing the disc.
During finalization:
• If the finalization process of a DVD-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. A disc
recorded in Video mode can take up to 20 minutes.
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.
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Next Screen
Finalize
Start
Undo Finalize
TITLE MENU

Initializing a recordable DVD disc

When you first load a blank disc, the recorder will
initialize it automatically for recording. You can also
manually initialize discs for either Video mode recording
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or VR mode recording.
By default, the recorder initializes blank DVD-RW discs
for VR mode recording. See DVD-RW Auto Init. on
page 105 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 do it before recording anything else
on the disc.
Important
• Initializing a DVD-RW disc will erase everything
recorded on it. Make sure there is nothing on the disc
that you want to keep!
• You may not be able to re-initialize a DVD-RW disc in
a different format if it was originally initialized on an
older DVD recorder.
• Once initialized for VR mode recording, you can't re-
initialize a DVD-R back to Video mode.
1 Press HOME MENU and select 'Disc Setup'.
2 Select 'Initialize'
Disc Setup
Basic VR Mode
Initialize Initialize Video Mode
Finalize
Optimize HDD
3 Select 'Video Mode' or 'VR Mode' from the
initialize options.
4 Select 'Start'.
It takes about 30 seconds to initialize the disc.
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