copying videos from dvd to dvd with Mac

It's been a while since I did this with my home video DVDs, but the basic idea is to

1. Insert the home video DVD, so that it shows up as a mounted volume.
2. Go into Disk Utility.
3. Create a disk image file on one of your SSDs or HDDs from the contents of the home video DVD. I believe that you want to use File > New Image > Image from [your DVD's name], and a Format of "DVD/CD master". You'll need enough space to store the image (which might require multiple gigabytes).
4. Quit Disk Utility.
5. Go to the Finder. Then, "To burn a disc image (.dmg file) to a disc, Control-click the disc image file, choose “Burn Disc Image [disc name] to Disc” from the shortcut menu, then follow the instructions."
6. Repeat Step 5 as many times as you like.
7. Keep the .dmg file (if you think you might want to burn more DVDs, or to play the video from your SSD/HDD). Or move it to the Trash and empty the Trash to reclaim the storage space.

Create a disk image using Disk Utility on Mac - Apple Support

Store information on CD and DVD discs on Mac - Apple Support

You don't simply copy, you literally burn the files onto the disk.

I use app Burn with good success: https://burn-osx.sourceforge.io/Pages/English/home.html

My favorite tool is DVDFab DVD Copy, which can copy a DVD to another blank disc and convert the DVD to an ISO file for permanent storage.

like ku4hx, I also have had a good experience using Burn. it is a good app and it is totally free.

Note that if you want to author a new home DVD-Video disc (not just duplicate an existing one), you'll need third-party software of some sort.

iDVD was a great application for authoring home video discs, but sadly, Apple killed it, instead of maintaining it and expanding it to do both DVD-Video and Blu-Ray-Video authoring.

Constance_16 Said:

"copying videos from dvd to dvd with Mac: I have a home video on DVD that I would to copy to another DVD. I have a MacBook Air and external DVD drive. How do I do this?"

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Mirroring DVDs:

Share With Another Computer: Have another computer laying around? See if sharing it from another device will let your mirror it: Share DVDs and CDs on Mac - Apple Support