Which External DVD Burner for Vegas?

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In one of my earlier posts I asked more than one question, so I never got an answer to the second one. ( I tend to be long winded anyway, sorry)

Using Vegas 6 - which external DVD burner should I buy, as I said I am running on a 2.2 P4 Dell C840 laptop. I have plenty of USB ports, but only one (4 pin) Firewire port, which I will be using to capture from the DVX100a.

I used to be up on all this stuff, but it has been a while, and I am not sure which burner to buy. Price is no object. Can anyone help out with some recomendations?
 
Just don’t go with a cheap brand (Lite-On, Memorex, etc.), and you should be fine. Think the mainstays – Pioneer, Sony, HP . . .

Though, honestly, any USB burner SHOULD work. The cheaper brands are less likely to have good, solid firmware, though.
 
The same advice above applies to DL. As for speed, whichever speed you use, match your media to your drive – don’t use 1x or 4x DVDs in a 8x writer, for example. Writing slower is not necessarily better. And use GOOD media, like Verbatim DVDs.

I haven't burned any DL yet, because it's still quite expensive and there's not much need for it, day-to-day.
 
Thanks

Thanks

I assume if I did obtain a dual layer, it still has the capability of buring single layer? Yes, I could go to Best Buy or some other outlet, but they don't relly have the experiance using Vegas, hence my questions here, apologies for that.

I will begin my quest shortly and may be back to ask about what I find....once again, thnak you for you answers.
 
Jubal28 said:
The same advice above applies to DL. As for speed, whichever speed you use, match your media to your drive – don’t use 1x or 4x DVDs in a 8x writer, for example. Writing slower is not necessarily better. And use GOOD media, like Verbatim DVDs.

I haven't burned any DL yet, because it's still quite expensive and there's not much need for it, day-to-day.
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Jubal28, on a previous post you mentioned Lite-On as one of the cheaper brands, but I thought I read somewhere that they actually manufactured DVD burners for Sony & others. Similar to Mazda making motors for both their cars, some Fords, and others. So, in actuality, you could have a Sony burner than was manufactured by Lite-On, so in effect, it's a Lite-On burner but now with the more expensive Sony name on it.

Also as far as speed, it's great to have the faster speeds, but I rarely use it. I always burn at a slower speed to have less errors. I have a 500 batch DVD duplicator with 6 DL 16x Pioneer burners .... but I only use 8x thermal printable DVD's, and even at that burn at only 4x. Doing this, I've gone through over 1,000 duplications so far, and have never had a bad burn yet (no failed disks). The manual on the duplicator even specifically states that if you're getting a higher failure rate to burn at a SLOWER speed.
 
I just ordered the Sony 720, much thanks for the direction, good price...once it gets here along with Vegas I will of course be nagging all of you with more questions and problems.
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Can't argue with results, of course, Envision.

However, what I said exactly was to match the media speed with the writer speed, and that slower isn't automatically better. It doesn't mean that slower is never better.

This info comes by way of the DVD production manager at Verbatim, who's a local.

Lite-On may manufacture Sony's drives (don't know), but like I said, anything will *probably* work. You're just more likely to have better, more up-to-date firmware (providing better media/software compatibility) with a premium manufacturer.
 
Jubal28 said:
However, what I said exactly was to match the media speed with the writer speed, and that slower isn't automatically better. It doesn't mean that slower is never better.

This info comes by way of the DVD production manager at Verbatim, who's a local.
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I wonder if that's what the product managers want us to believer, with regards to matching the media speed to the writer speed. Nearly all burners on the market now are up to 16x, but the most common DVD media speeds are still in the 4-8x.

Trying to get 16x DVD's would cost a BUNDLE right now ... and the only advantage they have over the 8x is that they'll burn up to 2x as fast ... so if someone's in a MAJOR hurry and simply can't walk away from their machine, I guess the extra cash is justified.
 
He's an on-the-level guy, so I don't think so. He was giving me the straight up dope, and had the documentation to show for it.

I agree with you about the 16x. In fact, I use a 4x burner and have had no need to upgrade. If I need a good-size run, I go with a duplicator and go out to dinner.
 
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