Disk images, disk utility, and burning movie copies

I used to use a .dmg of my own movie files to create copies for playback. i used disk utility for this for years and have even used it successfully with OS 10.5....now suddenly burning from the same disk image in disk utility only ever creates a new .img or .dmg, never a copy for playback. this is my own movie, not a rented/copyrighted/purchased dvd., etc. what am i suddenly doing wrong, possibly?

Weird.
You could try this free app:
http://www.versiontracker.com/dyn/moreinfo/macosx/32275
Or Roxio Toast (which is not free, but a must-have)
Casper

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TV video typically is copyrighted content. We'd be breaking several rules trying to help you. Good luck!

Disk Utility and burning problems

I'm in the process of trying to back up my new emac (OS 10.4.2). I bought some CDRW disks (4X, 700mb) and I can quick erase them--but I cannot burn to them. I have all the proper authorizations (as I am the administrator) and my computer does burn this type of disk. The burn icon is dimmed when I highlight the CD disk in "disk utility". It also doesn't show up on my harddrive. It is listed as read only. I've tried two.
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Christina Wilson,
Welcome to the Apple Discussions!
Have you tried erasing the CD-RW disks before trying to use them? Insert the disk, open Disk Utility, select the CD-RW device, not the volume name (the device name is the one on top of the volume name), select the Erase tab, and see if the Erase button becomes active. After erasing, you may need to quit Disk Utility before the CD-RW blank will mount on the desktop (that's the case in 10.2.8; it may not hold for 10.4.2).
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I have saved an imovie in iDVD and then saved the project as a disk image on my desktop. Using Disk Utility I added the image as a new image and chose burn. Everything seemed to be going fine, It said it was burning the image and when it finished a error window appeared that said device did not respond properly and was unable to burn project. Can anyone give a start to finish on how to burn an iDVD project to a DVD-+R on a LaCie burner??? Much help appreciated...
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Two step import, downsizing image file sizes and/or keeping copies?

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hi terence,
thank you.
so can i ask if anyone is using an iphone and/or what setting(s) and/or resolution folks are using?
i guess i have a bit of a dilemma in that i take a ton of photos and i only use one at a high resolution while the others can be something as insignificant as a visual note to myself. and it kind of kills me that these could be 1.2 MB in that i have a lot of them. i sort of wish there was a way to downsample imagery since a lot of these are not so important.
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Does anyone know how to burn multiple disk images onto a single dvd that will play in a stand alone dvd player? I tried this by dragging the movies onto the dvd, as disk utility only allowed me to select one image. However, I couldn't open the files to play it, presumably because they were not interlinked in any way.
Would be grateful if anyone knows a way around this. I no longer have the original material only disk images of the short movies I made.
Thanks

Hi June
Don't think that Your wish is possibly. You most probably has to build
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to QT.mov files in one way or another. (With quality loss)
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I have burned 100s of DVDs successfully. I always burn them from their disk images. My last project took longer because I ran into what I think is an unusual problem.
I created a disk image and burned a DVD, but then decided there were a couple of places where more edits would make a better movie. I went back to my iMovie, made the edits, and opened up iDVD and created another disk image. Both disk images had had the same name, but that shouldn't have been a problem since the first one had been trashed before the second one was created. When I opened Disk Utility to burn the disk, the disk image (which was on my desktop) appeared in DUs window.
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Any chance the first disk image was still mounted on your desktop when you put its .img file into the trash?
Thanks! I think you nailed it!
I had tried playing from the disk image with DVD player first and it played fine, but then I decided to do more edits so I trashed the .img file. I forgot that I had mounted it. When I tried to burn the second disk image, Disk Utility must have still used the first image, even though it had been trashed, because it was still mounted.
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