Pioneer DVR-650H-S manual Select ‘Finalize’ ‘Finalize’, For DVD-R/-RW Video mode

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•DVD-R DL (Video mode) discs and DVD+R DL discs must be finalized in order to play in other recorders/players. Note however that some recorders/ players will not play even finalized dual- layer discs.

1Load the disc you want to finalize. Make sure that the recorder is stopped before proceeding.

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2 Select ‘Disc Setup’ from the Home Menu.

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3	Select ‘Finalize’ > ‘Finalize’ >
‘Next Screen’.
Disc Setup
Basic	Finalize	Next Screen
Initialize	Undo Finalize	Start
Finalize
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•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.

5The 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.

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4	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.

Finalize

Initializing recordable DVD discs

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

DVD-R/-RW discs can be initialized for either Video mode recording or VR mode recording.1

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 on page 50 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.

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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