I have a dvd of family home videos and want to make a copy for other family members. I used to be able to do this easily using Disk Utility, but things seem to have changed in El Capitan. How do I make a copy of my DVD?
iMac, OS X El Capitan (10.11), 3.4 GHz Core i7 16GB RAM
I hope this is not too late to help you, but I ran into the same problem in El Capitan myself and, after much research and experimentation, figured it out.
1. With the DVD you want to copy in the disk drive, open Disk Utility. (Remember, this works ONLY with non-copy protected disks.)
2. After all of your drives have been found with the utility, click on the TITLE of the DVD in your disk drive
3. at the top of the screen go to File...New Image...Image from...(whatever your DVD is called).
4. a window will open offering you some options: name the disk image whatever you want (or keep it the same as the inserted disk), choose the Desktop for the location of the new image, and select Format: "DVD/CD Master"
5. hit save and the utility will take a few minutes to READ the current DVD, and it will create a disk image file with the name you selected and place it on your desktop. If, when it is finished, you can't find it, open Finder, click on Desktop, and find the most recently created .cdr file. That's the one!
6. Now right click on that file and select "Burn Disk Image ...to disk" and follow the instructions.
7. From here on out, you can keep doing #6 above, and make as many copies as you like.
I hope this helps you. It shouldn't be THIS hard to copy a playable DVD or CD disk without buying third party software! Thanks Apple 😟
I hope this is not too late to help you, but I ran into the same problem in El Capitan myself and, after much research and experimentation, figured it out.
1. With the DVD you want to copy in the disk drive, open Disk Utility. (Remember, this works ONLY with non-copy protected disks.)
2. After all of your drives have been found with the utility, click on the TITLE of the DVD in your disk drive
3. at the top of the screen go to File...New Image...Image from...(whatever your DVD is called).
4. a window will open offering you some options: name the disk image whatever you want (or keep it the same as the inserted disk), choose the Desktop for the location of the new image, and select Format: "DVD/CD Master"
5. hit save and the utility will take a few minutes to READ the current DVD, and it will create a disk image file with the name you selected and place it on your desktop. If, when it is finished, you can't find it, open Finder, click on Desktop, and find the most recently created .cdr file. That's the one!
6. Now right click on that file and select "Burn Disk Image ...to disk" and follow the instructions.
7. From here on out, you can keep doing #6 above, and make as many copies as you like.
I hope this helps you. It shouldn't be THIS hard to copy a playable DVD or CD disk without buying third party software! Thanks Apple 😟
oinkstones,
I have tried this, but the burn keeps failing. I tried from the DMG image I created and then created a CDM image, but burn keeps failing. I am currently trying to copy on friends Windows machine---gads, are they going to beat OS X on this? Hope not!
Palm_1
Thanks for the info. I had already made a copy using an older Dell w/ Win7. Still wish I knew why burning a DVD is an on again off again thing with my iMac--never a problem with a CD burn. I made copy of your suggestion and filed it away under quick and useful tips
Have you tried selecting a slower burn speed? I've had problems before with DVD burns failing at the highest speed (which is default, I'm pretty sure). It happened only with DVDs, not CDs. Selecting a slower burn speed solved the problem for me.
CRispywings,
i have had this suggestion in the past, but for some reason, your post caused me to do some searching on HOW to reduce burn speed, as there is not any button that makes it evident. I located the speed selector and look forward to my next burn attempt. Thank you for giving me the inspireation to continue with my quest for an iDVD fix
I did this exactly how you instructed but all that keeps happening is it kicks the blank DVD out without doing anything
how to copy dvd in el capitan
