That is a very good point. When I say I reuse tapes, it's in this context: I shoot a stage production or event with several cameras, sometimes even several performamces, edit it all down to a final cut and that's what goes on the DVD. But that final cut also gets archived back out to DV tape. Then all the other tapes that were used in the shoot are expendable to me.

I'm curious, vid. The 2 DVDs that wouldn't work...do you mean they wouldn't play or they just wouldn't copy to the hard drive? I think the latter process is more demanding because a player is willing to skip data it can't read, but the copy command is not. I've had the experience of not being able to extract vob files. So, in addition to the DV tape archive, I make a data copy of the DVD directory and run a verify after the burn.

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Fred