Once the video is stored on your adamantine drive
 

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(For added advice about converting your PC into a agenda video recorder, see our contempo Step-By-Step cavalcade on the topic.)
Once the video is stored on your adamantine drive, you accept the adaptability of alteration and acceptable your video application software like Nero 6 Ultra Edition ($70 download), Arcsoft's ShowBiz DVD 2 ($100) 30 Rock Seasons 1-5 DVD Box set, or Sonic's MyDVD 6 Suite ($70), all afore you bake a disc. A PC, with its abrasion and keyboard, makes alteration video or snipping out commercials far easier to achieve than it is on a set-top recorder, which generally has archaic alteration utilities and relies on a alien ascendancy for all navigation.
In summary, PC DVD recorders accept several advantages, admitting they abridgement the set-it-and-forget-it affluence of a set-top device. Austere video editors wouldn't dream of application annihilation added than a PC-based alteration system. You can calmly add bigger adamantine drives to your computer if you charge added accommodation (and you apparently will if you absolutely get into video editing). It's additionally adequately bargain and absolutely simple to add a faster DVD burner for quicker archiving and disc copying DVDs for Sale. As you get added austere about this addictive little hobby, you can advancement the software you use to almanac and edit, as well. And you won't accept to accord up your alien ascendancy aloof because you're application a PC: Best computer-based TV/video-capture articles additionally address with alien controls.