Adobe Premiere Elements 7 Classroom in a Book

230 LESSON 11 Creating Menus

Physical media

 e type of disc onto which you will record your video is important.  ere are two

basic formats you should be aware of: Recordable ( DVD-R and DVD+R for DVDs,

BD-R for Blu-ray Discs) and Rewritable ( DVD-RW and DVD+RW for DVDs,

BD-RE for Blu-ray Discs). Recordable discs are single-use discs; once you record

data onto a recordable disc you cannot erase the data. Rewritable discs can be used

multiple times, much like the fl oppy disks of old.

 ere are also dual-layer DVD-Recordable discs (DVD-R DL and DVD+R DL) that

off er 8.5 GB of storage space instead of the 4.7 GB of standard DVD-R, DVD+R,

DVD-RW, and DVD+RW discs. Dual-layer BD-R discs, featuring 50 GB of storage

space, will come to market ...