Initializing a recordable DVD disc

Recording

4Select ‘Finalize’ from the finalize options, then ‘Next Screen’.

5For 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

TITLE	M	TITLE MENU
	ENU

•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.

6The 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

•If the TV line system of the disc is different to the current setting of the recorder, you will not be able to finalize the disc. See Additional information about the TV system settings on page 98 for how to change the

recorder’s setting.

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

or VR mode recording.1

By default, the recorder initializes blank DVD-RW discs for VR mode recording. See DVD-RW Auto Init. on page 96 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.

1Press HOME MENU and select ‘Disc Setup’.

2Select ‘Initialize’

Disc Setup
Basic	VR Mode	Start
Initialize	Video Mode	Start
Finalize
Optimize HDD

3Select ‘Video Mode’ or ‘VR Mode’ from the initialize options.

4Select ‘Start’.

It takes about 30 seconds to initialize the disc.

Initializing Disc

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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.