A progress screen will appear once it starts. Once you’ve confirmed that you want to finalize the disc the process will begin. Wait for Finalization Process to Complete When you clicked on the Finalize option a confirmation pop-up will appear – navigate up and click 6. Once you are on the Disc Edit menu use the arrows on your remote to navigate to the Finalize option then click 5. This will bring you to the Disc Edit menu. Now that you are in the Setup menu, navigate down to the Disc Edit option using the down arrows on the remote, then click. Press the SETUP button on the remote controlīy pressing the button the Setup Menu should appear like below: 3. At this point, the screen should now look blank as there is no VHS or DVD playing. In order to do that hit on the DVD side of the player or on the remote. You need to get out of playback mode before you can finalize the disc. If you clicked on the selected chapter the DVD would start playing that chapter. These are the menu options as they are created using your Magnavox DVD Recorder, these can be edited so each chapter name can be changed or even chapters deleted, but that is a story for another day. If you find yourself on a screen like this it means you are in playback mode of the DVD and landed on the Main Menu when you go to play your DVD. Make sure you are not on the playback chapter menu screenĪfter you transfer/dubbed footage from your VHS tape to your DVD via the dubbing process the playback chapter menu screen will appear when you’ve hit to finish the dubbing session.Įach time you’ve started and stop the dubbing process the new footage will show as an additional DVD chapter added like below: The following steps to finalizing a disc should work for most Magnavox DVD Recorders. Step By Step Disc Finalize Instructions with Pictures
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We’ll explain in full detail with pictures in this article. Finalizing can take several minutes, the longer the DVD the longer it takes to finalize.ĭepending on what step you are in of the VHS to DVD recording process it may vary how you get to the first menu option to finalize your disc.
Make sure your DVD disc is inserted, then using the remote control press the SETUP button, then use the up/down arrows and select DISC EDIT from the menu options, then up/down arrows to select FINALIZE, then up/down arrows to select YES.
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If you’re like me you don’t find it very intuitive how to finalize a disc on a Magnavox DVD recorder, so here’s how to do it: After dubbing your VHS tape to DVD on your Magnavox DVD recorder you will see a message like the message above about remembering to finalize your DVD disc.