Burn multiple DVDs at once in iDVD?

Hello! I'm new on my Mac. I've got it all pretty much figured out, but, I need to know if there is a way to use both my DVD burners at the same time while burning DVDs through iDVD? I sometimes have to make 50 or more copies of the same project, and it would be great to use them both at the same time. I see that you have to choose which drive to burn to, and I don't see how I can use both. Any ideas on how I can do that? It doesn't seem as though the Mac will allow opening 2 instances of the same application... help!

Welcome to the Apple Discussions. If you save the project to Disk Image first you might be able to burn two at a time. Saving as a disk image lets you check the encoding with DVD Player first before committing to disk. Then burn it with Disk Utility at the slowest speed possible.
Yesterday's MacOSXHints site has a hint on how to open multiple occurrences of the same application, in this case Disk Utilty: An easy way to run multiple instances of any program.
If that didn't work you could use Disk Utiltiy to burn the disk image while using iDVD to burn directly from the project. The first burn would be very slow as it would have to redo the encoding but then it would go pretty fast after that. Be sure to give the drives a bit of a rest. You don't want them to overhead and fail which is possible.
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The current Apple thinking is that the entire world has access to fast broadband and wants to distribute home movies to friends and relatives via download (iCloud) rather than mailing them a DVD. The fact that nothing could be further from the truth has so far had no effect on this policy. If you scream and shout loudly enough down the phone Apple may send you a free copy of iDVD. That worked for some, but is now said to have been withdrawn by Apple. Also, you can complain bitterly here, perhaps suggesting that Apple could have provided a choice between using iCloud and burning DVDs:
http://www.apple.com/feedback/
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I know if I buy some dual-layer DVDs, it would fit. But right now, I am wondering if spanning multiple DVD discs is do-able within iDVD.
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Yesterday's MacOSXHints site has a hint on how to open multiple occurrences of the same application, in this case Disk Utilty: An easy way to run multiple instances of any program.
If that didn't work you could use Disk Utiltiy to burn the disk image while using iDVD to burn directly from the project. The first burn would be very slow as it would have to redo the encoding but then it would go pretty fast after that. Be sure to give the drives a bit of a rest. You don't want them to overhead and fail which is possible.
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I am having a problem burning multiple DVDs. My first DVD burns fine but my second one won't complete the process. It stays in the "BURN PROCESS Current Operation: Writing Lead-Out..." phase for hours without ever completing the burn. I am using good quality Taiyo Yuden 8X DVD-R blank discs. Can anyone offer any advice/solutions? Thanks!

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2Can't burn a DVD using IDVD nor Disk Utility first time user-what is wrong

T he recording device reported the media error: Power calibration area error. (0x73, 0x03.)
IDVD Version 6.0.3
Emac- OS 10.3.9--- in the owner's manual it DOES state my emac can burn DVDs. Is this correct?
I am using FujiFilm DVD-R . Never used the DVD apps or burner before. I PRAM'ed 3 times. Also did 6 CD audio burns to check the drive. Is it the media-- Fuji does not work? I used Office Depot generic for audio CD-Rs.
I keep getting this error message after about 20 minutes of programming the DVD-- then it ejects with this message:
"The recording device reported the media error: Power calibration area error. (0x73, 0x03.)"
When using the IDVD application to burn my slideshow onto a DVD; Then I contacted Apple Care and I was told to use Disk Utility to burn my DVD in lieu of IDVD not working.
I converted my slideshow into a .dmg format; all was verified successfully. Then I receive this error message when attempting to BURN DVD:
"STOP The device drained its buffer without burn under run protection"
I made a WONDERFUl slideshow-- of only 17 slides-- confirmed I have plenty of room on hard drive and et al on the "disk information". I have attempted since May 7th to get this DVD to burn my slideshow. PLEASE HELP ME!!! I have deadlines-- now it is for Tuesday May 15th. Please alert me to an alternative until I can get my Emac working properly on what I can do to make copies of my slideshow ASAP. Thank you.
Now I looked thru your ERROR message archives and found NONE to match mine. What do these error messages mean-- is my Emac not working? This is first time ever I tried to use IDVD and IMovie and Disk Utility--- so the first impression is VERY VERY VERY bad for Apple's "easy to use for first time customers"....
Oh to add information-- I DO have an external DVD recorder-- have yet to even see how to hook it up to my Emac-- if this is an alternative to meet my Tuesday deadline-- PLEASE let me know-- how do I burn a copy of my slideshow into an external DVD recorder?
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Memory 256 MB DDR SDRAM
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Bus Speed: 167 MHz
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Also did 6 CD audio burns to check the drive. Is it the media-- Fuji does not work?
Your drive is actually TWO devices - one set of optics and laser burns/reads CDs, another set of optics/laser reads/wtites DVDs. The fact that your drive can burn CDs doesn't mean it is working for DVDs.
I keep getting this error message after about 20 minutes of programming the DVD-- then it ejects with this message:
"The recording device reported the media error: Power calibration area error. (0x73, 0x03.)"
When using the IDVD application to burn my slideshow onto a DVD; Then I contacted Apple Care and I was told to use Disk Utility to burn my DVD in lieu of IDVD not working.
You might want to get back to Applecare and expalin again the error messages you are seeing. They really don't involve iDVD.
I converted my slideshow into a .dmg format; all was verified successfully. Then I receive this error message when attempting to BURN DVD:
"STOP The device drained its buffer without burn under run protection"
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