How can I get my mini-dvds onto regular dvd?

[Minnie824]

DH bought me some photo software last year, and I haven't had a chance to look into it much..I think its photoshop but it came w/some video stuff too. Should I be able to copy my mini-dvd content to my computer then move it to a regular dvd? Will that work? Is there an easier way to do this? Thanks!

 

[MarkBarbieri]

I'd recommend against glue.

Are you working with pictures or videos? If they are videos, Photoshop won't help you. If you don't plan on editing them and just want to copy them, I'd skip video editing software entirely and just use something like Roxio or Nero that allows you to copy DVDs.

 

[Minnie824]

Just videos...don't need to do any editing...I would just like to take my 5 30-minute mini dvds and put it onto one (or two) longer running, normal sized dvds.

 

[DemonLlama]

Roxio or Sonic will work fine if you don't want to edit them.

I've used Power Director to create the videos linked in my sig, but that's to have the adaptability to do just about anything with them, instead of a straight copy.

 

[Groucho]

Sonic and Roxio are the same company now. Some Sonic-badged products will let you edit DVDs (and some Roxio ones, I think.) For example, some DVD burners come bundled with Sonic MyDVD which can do basic editing. Similarly, the Nero suite has quite a nice basic DVD authoring program, which also lets you do basic editing tasks.

Nero has a free 30-day trial on their website. Not sure about Roxio, I don't care for their stuff so I don't pay much attention, but they probably have a similar deal.

I usually use DVD-Lab but that's overkill for the project at hand.