After your recording is finish writing to disk, press the eject button. DO NOT TAKE the dvd out. press eject button agian, When the disc begins loading, press the memu button on the remote control.You will see a blue screen.At the top of the srceen you will see the title general settings. Give it a about a min or less and you will notic the the titile disc edit light up. Select it then, select finialize, then select yes. The finalizing proccess will take place, hence your dvd will be complete.