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Mark,

What I do is make a disk image file of the completed project (an option under FILE in the iDVD menu bar). I then use Apple's Disk Utility or Roxio's Toast to burn as many copies as I need. This also has the advantage of making it possible to slow down the burn speed (not available in iDVD until iDVD '08) creating discs that are compatable with more set top players. (Both Disk Utility and Toast make it possible to set the burn speed - use 4x or lower.)



F Shippey

How do you burn a disk image as a file that will play in a home DVD player?

kat,

See (Mac OS X 10.4) - Burning a disk image on a CD or DVD at http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?path=DiskUtility/10.5/en/duh1884.html


F Shippey

Hi F Shippey ,

I understand how to burn it, though when you make this image file from iDVD, it is not a file (at least as far as I understand it) that will play in a DVD player. So am I missing a step here?

A disk image file is just that - an 'image' of the completed DVD. You must use Apple Disk Utility (or Roxio's Toast) to burn it to writable media so that it remains in UDF format. If you simply burn the image to writable media from the finder, you create a Mac OS Extended format disc that won't play in DVD players.

If you have burned a disk image to writable media and it doesn't play in a DVD player, insert it in your Mac, click on the icon and do a 'Get Info'. I'll bet the format shown is Mac OS Extended and NOT UDF as it should be.



F Shippey