The disk CAN play sequences in reverse. Always look at your frames in NTSC mode before recording. What looks beautiful on the computer monitor can look terrible on video tape. Avoid pure colors, especially pure red. They tend to bleed in video.
Thin lines look bad on video.
You may also want to increase the line thicknesses of PostScript plots, by editing the code, before rendering into raster images for video recording. Write down the frames you use in the log book. In order to have something you can take with you, you must record the frames from the disk to a video tape. The LVR's playback capabilities can be controlled via tha computer. The VCR can pause and begin recording without and distortion.