Creating and burning CDR-file

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Creating and burning CDR-file

There have been some discussions in this forum on cdr- and img files created in Disk Utility, but I could not find an answer to my problems. I have a number of dvd's made in FCE and IDVD. One of my daughters asked for a copy of some dvd's, no problem i thought. But in fact it is a problem. I understood from an earlier discussion in this forum that i should make a copy in Disk Utility ( post dec. 19 by panthpatel11), which results in a cdr-file. These cdr-files can be burnt in Disk Utility or Toast. I followed the instructions. Now the problem is that these cdr-files can only be played by VLC, not by QT, not in WMP or any other mediaplayer. Even worse: i loose all functionalities of the original dvd, all movies, separated on the original, now are combined to one long movie, menues show up, but don't work. When i copy these cdr-files to a blank dvd, using Toast, the dvd is written and even verified (successfull!!!), but they dont play in any dvd-player or computer. There must be better ways to do something so simple. Can someone advise?

imacG5, Mac OS X (10.4.8), 1.5 G, canon 330i, fce 2.0.3, lacie external

Posted on Jan 15, 2008 11:04 AM

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Answer 1

F Shippey

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Jan 15, 2008 11:10 AM in response to jan nijboer1

Jan,

The process is simply - but it is possible to do it incorrectly. If done incorrectly you end up with a Mac OS Extended format disc instead of the necessary UDF format disc need to play the disc in set top DVD players.

This article : How to copy previously-burned DVD-R video discs at http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=42724 will step you through the process.

F Shippey

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SDMacuser

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Jan 15, 2008 11:28 AM in response to jan nijboer1

which version of Toast did you try? That should give you a UDF formatted copy.

Or you can use apple's disc utility.

But you cannot use the Finder to do this since that will result in a mac os extended disc that won't play on most dvd players.

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F Shippey

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Jan 15, 2008 12:33 PM in response to SDMacuser

which version of Toast did you try? That should give you a UDF formatted copy.

Only if done correctly - and Toast 6, 7 and 8 all have changes in the method used. It can be quite easy to create a data DVD instead of a video DVD from a disk image file with Toast.

F Shippey

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SDMacuser

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Jan 15, 2008 4:32 PM in response to F Shippey

Let's go over the correct ways first:

You can do any of these for a UDF formatted DVD .....

Click Here:

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BUT NOT THIS ONE:

@ Fred ..... feeel free to add to this if you wish.

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F Shippey

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Jan 15, 2008 6:13 PM in response to SDMacuser

Sorry, those screen grabs ONLY apply to Toast 7! Toast 6 and 8 are different.

We don't know yet what version of Toast he has.

F Shippey

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SDMacuser

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Jan 15, 2008 6:55 PM in response to F Shippey

I can post for version 6 as well but I'll wait for a reply from the OP as to the correct version.

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jan nijboer1 Author

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Jan 16, 2008 10:17 AM in response to SDMacuser

Thank you all, for helping. I checked all suggestions and found out that i had done exactly what I should do. So what went wrong? I am not sure, but probably the failures have been caused by either the outdated version of Toast (5.2.3), or the usage of Sony dvd's, or the combination of both.Finally I used an other burning app ("Burn") and Verbatim dvd's and burning copy-dvd's with full functionality works without problems.Thanks again for your assistance.

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