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I have used an old MacBook with built in DVD drive to make playable DVDs but iDVD will no longer burn discs playable on a stand alone DVD player. Can anyone recommend an external DVD drive (to use with my M1 McBook Air) and software which can burn a DVD playable on a stand alone DVD player. Thanks
MacBook Air (2020 or later)
This was recommended by another poster: https://www.dvdstyler.org/en/
See their post: OS Catalina no longer supports iDVD. What… - Apple Community
I’m not sure if it will run on M1 however…
You can just get an Apple USB-C to USB adapter, and Apple USB SuperDrive for your new M1 MacBook Air.
When using any video DVD authoring app follow this workflow to help assure the best qualty video DVD:
Once you have the project as you want it save it as a disk image via the File ➙ Save as Disk Image menu option. This will separate the encoding process from the burn process.
To check the encoding mount the disk image, launch DVD Player and play it. If it plays OK with DVD Player the encoding is good.
Then burn the disk image to disk with Disk Utility at the slowest speed available (2x-4x) to assure the best burn quality. Always use top quality media: Verbatim, Maxell or Taiyo Yuden DVD-R are the most recommended in these forums.
I've used Wondershare DVD Creator demo version and it works fine with Big Sur and Monterey. You need to make sure you have plenty of free space on your boot drive (I recommend a minimum of 100GB) for encoding and optimal app and system performance.
Update: I downloaded "dvdstyler" but it crashed as soon as I tried to drag a video file to it. I assume that it is not compatible with Monterey or M1 or both. Now trying "DVD Creator" which looks hopeful!
DVD Creator by peng Guiping has been recommended by others on this forum. It is available at the app store for $14.99. People using Catalina have used it, so it must work with 64bit.
It is not as good as the discontinued iDVD, but then nothing is.
-- Rich
Thank you Rich. I am trying DVD Creator Lite to see whether it works before buying the full version. At present it is not working very well (spits disc out after only 55% of processing is complete). As you say, there is nothing as good as IDVD.
Thank you. That is very helpful.
Many thanks OT. Your guidance is very helpful to those of us not expert in all things Mac.
What is a replacement for iDVD
