multiple dvd burners on one machine

neb wrote on 1/15/2004, 1:07 PM
Does anybody have experience running multiple dvd burners on one machine? I work for a camp editing in Vegas, we have a dvd burner which we use to burn our dvds. Usually we just need one or two at a time. But every now and then we need say 50 or 100 copies. We don’t have the volume to justify the money on a dedicated dvd duplicator, and if we can do it ourselves it cost less than having them duplicated professionally (for small runs like ours). So if we could put another burner in our machine and run 2 at a time it would be helpful, and more cost effective.

A few points:
We don’t own the vegas dvd architect extension, but may be willing to buy it if it will do what we need. (currently we use MyDvd…because it came with the burner, so a better authoring program would not be a bad thing any way…).

So…

Does DVDA support multiple burners at the same time?
Alternately has anybody tried running multiple copies of DVDA (or MyDvd, or any other dvd type program) and burning with both of them at the same time?

Computer is 2 AthlonMPs (running around 1.5 ghz) with a gig of ram, windows xp pro, vegas video, a system HD and a video HD.

Let me know if some clarification of what we are trying to do would be helpful!

Thanks in advance for your help and suggestions
Regards
Ben

Comments

farss wrote on 1/15/2004, 1:30 PM
DVDA will only drive one burner at a time and I'd advise against trying to run two copies to two different burners on the one system.

Veritas have "RecordNow", you can have any number of burners in a system and it will make multiple copies using them. I'm not certain but I think all the burners have to be the same.
GaryKleiner wrote on 1/15/2004, 7:33 PM
I have run two instances of DVDA and burned two discs OF THE SAME FOLDER at the same time. No problem.

Gary
farss wrote on 1/16/2004, 5:10 AM
I guess so long as you have enough buffer in the DVD burner it should be OK. I think though the more sophisticated apps run all the burners in sync so you can pretty well keep adding more burners.
I know the Veritas product runs at least 4 at once.
neb wrote on 1/16/2004, 7:32 AM
Thanks for your input…
It kind of seems like its something that you just have to try…or buy new software…..

Regards
Ben