Please DVD/ computer HELP? "read only"?

Question

Okay so i filmed a movie with my friends all day today... we had a lot of outtakes and i needed to edit the film... i put the DVD (its a small one.... mini-disc) into my PC and tried to run it on a program so i could run it... i tried to play it but it said that he needed to be saved to a harddrive... i tried saving it to my harddrive and it said the disc was "read only" and i NEED to get it so i can save it... i do not want to film it all again... it took 2 hours for 6 minutes of footage... is there any way to format the disc so i can save it to something so my program will read it and i can edit it? (step by step if possible)... the program is showbiz 2... if i can format it can u give me steps on saving it to my hard drive?

The camera is a fiji... same with the disc... im not sure of the make.. its my friends cam... it was finalized when we ended it off

Answer 1

*sigh* You mentioned EVERYTHING except the most important thing: your Camera make and model.

EDIT: You must mean FUJI. Fiji is an island in the South Pacific.

And it's called MiniDVD. MiniDisc is a trademarked Sony name and storage format.

If it is finalized, then what did you try to open it with on the PC? The only way the PC would tell you the disc is read only is you actually tried to WRITE to the MiniDVD, which makes no sense when you're trying to READ from it.

Generally, to get it onto the PC, you just open the DVD in Explorer (My Computer, then the Drive) and drag all the files out to an HD's folder (probably make a new one for this). However, usually the miniDVD's are in the standard VOB/BUF etc. format, and you'll need an extractor to create MPEGs and/or DV-AVIs that you can edit. However, we don't have enough details right now to be sure.

Answer 2

some cameras are different ... u may need to finalize it in the cam and then rip the dvd to harddrive to work with it ... convert it to avi or watever ..