Thank you Ramjet. So to get this totally clear in my head (because I have got so confused, grim getting old!) what I need to do now is finalise the disc. Then the title will appear in the title list?
it should do , but I dont use my recorders that way anyway
the point here is that the internal hdd is an instant read/write medium , and so tracks can be edited , titled , divided , chapter points added etc , so its a far more flexible system than a dvdr disk , as on a disk you cannot overwrite what is there , so every change you make is added to the system and dealt with at finalisation
the trick here is to stop using the dvd disks and use the hdd to get your footage sorted , and then fastdub to a -r disk and finalise it with title , menus etc at the end
personally , I use the +rw disks in video mode , and then copy to a pc hdd , and author , title and burn my final disks that way , finalised of course , this gives greater control and more flexibility of the finished product
so try finalising the disk as you have nothing to lose , but in future set the machine to video mode and not vr mode , and record to the hdd in all instances , make the required changes you want like chapters , track titles etc , and use the -r disk to finish the product using fastdub and finalisation