How to Merge 2X Camcorder MiniDVD to Regular DVD

MiniDVD is widely used in DVD-based camcorder, with which you can shoot video and directly record onto DVD for playback on DVD player, if the camcorder miniDVD is compatible with your DVD player.

The use of MiniDVD makes smaller DVD camcorder come true and gives the convenience of enjoying shot camcorder video immediately on TV. However, every corn has two sides. Small size discs means short storage capacity. The general miniDVD (single sided, single layer) only records 1.4G camcorder video and about 30 minutes at most depending on video quality.

Now if you want to merge 2 miniDVDs to a regular DVD, this article is for you. We will show you how to combine short camcorder video to a long one for playback on TV.

Step 1: Rip miniDVD videos to PC

First of all, you need to put videos from camcorder miniDVD to PC. So you should have a DVD drive, DVD ripper software and enough free disk space to save your camcorder miniDVD videos. On the DVD ripper part, Wondershare provides excellent DVD Ripper Platinum to copy videos from camcorder miniDVD. Video quality is almost the same as on your miniDVD. It also enables you to make video editing like trimming, merging, adding subtitle, and so on.

Only 3 steps are away from ripping miniDVD video to computer:

a. Insert miniDVD and load DVD in program

b. Select output profile

c. Start ripping miniDVD

Before ripping camcorder miniDVD, you must finalize miniDVD on your computer first. Do notice that AVCHD DVD is not support. Any other R+/-, RW+/- DVD discs videos could be ripped from camcorder miniDVD to video on computer.

After the videos are transfer from miniDVD to PC, you can want them with your video player software like Windows Media Player, or upload to YouTube for sharing in compatible formats.

Step 2: Burn miniDVD videos to a regular DVD

Next, the DVD burning software is needed to record miniDVD videos to a regular DVD. You should prepare a blank DVD disc, and then open your favorite DVD burning software to finish the job. Here, Wondershare DVD Creator is recommended. It supports all regular formats, and more important, no quality lost occurred from the original videos.

MiniDVD Tips and Knowledge:

1. Depending on the video size on your camcorder miniDVD, videos need to be compressed or not. To rip and compress video, Video Converter Ultimate is the all-in-one ripper and converter software.

2. The left space of the disc is shown on the disc space bar below the storyboard; You can select the size of burning DVD between ‘DVD-R4.5G’ and ‘DVD-R9.0G’; The output quality is also up to your choice, you may select ’Low video quality‘, ‘High video quality’ or ‘Highest video quality’.

3. What's MiniDVD: Also known as '3 inch DVD', which has 8 cm in diameter. The 8 cm optical disc format was originally used for music CD, and later recordable 8 cm discs are commonly used in DVD camcorders for its small size. A MiniDVD can be played back in most DVD players that are tray loaded. The trays on players and DVD drives have an inner ring where the 8 cm disc is centered.

Depending on variant, miniDVD discs can offer up to 5.2 GB of storage space, which is larger than general DVD storage .