Burn to external drive

I am having a problem burning to external dvd drive. It is HP dvd writer 1040d model inside enclosure and connected with firewire to back of my iMac with snow leopard latest software. Using TDK or HP dvds. All the FCP files are in a folder on my desktop with dvd studio file. Assets imported and A/V are placed in the track area. In the asset panel the A/V have the yellow status dots. I have been able to burn to this external drive in the past but not today. How can I make the external drive the default.

DVD studio just stated to put in DVD in before burn. Internal drive seems to scratch some discs as various times and I want to use the external drawer drive to burn. Seems safer. external drive is not full and have only one folder on desktop with very little data. Video file is only 34 GB at about 1 hour of movie. How do I specify it each time?

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Can No Longer Burn To External Drive

About two years ago my then six-year-old 800 mhz flat panel iMac's SuperDrive started acting erratic. Rather than replace the internal drive I purchased an external LaCie firewire drive. I was able to both read and write from this drive.
I am not positive, but I believe that I subsequently upgraded to OSX 10.4.11. And not too long ago I had no trouble burning a music CD from an iTunes playlist in the LaCie drive. In any case, the other day I tried to burn a simple data DVD of some photos to a DVD in the LaCie drive. I have been completely unable to burn a disc. I've tried burning from the finder, burning via Backup, and burning via Toast. All have failed.
I have wasted about a dozen discs so far. Often the burn will seem to complete, but fail verification. Sometimes when it fails verification it says it was because of a data transmission error, other times it says a sector failed.
Other times the burn will terminate early and the disc will ejec. The error messages are never consistent. Sometimes it will say "Buffer Underrun." But the LaCie drive protects against that, and I've gotten the Buffer Underrun message even when burning at only 1X. Can't go any slower than that.
Blank media inserted in the LaCie drive takes a long time to appear on desktop, and appears as a folder with a "burn" emblem on it, not as a disc. I've tried swapping Firewire cables but that hasn't made any difference.
The internal SuperDrive is completely dead by now. If I insert a disc into the internal drive there is no startup noise, no whirring, etc. Eventually the machine just spits out the disc.
I don't need to burn discs often, but this is driving me nuts. Any help would be greatly appreciated. I get the impression that Tiger has a real problem burning to external drives.

Daniel,
For several years I've been burning optical media of every kind on what is likely your drive. (Because they're sensitive to mechanical trauma, I bought a Firewire/USB Multi-drive encased in a small tank my cat can't move.
Your desktop icon struck me. I fiddled with 'System Preferences', but couldn't reproduce it. (My choice for blank media is 'Disk Utility.) Normally, only mounted devices appear on the desktop: this means a file system compatible with the Mac's was recognized (after a lot of handshaking) and attached to it. Hence you can drag an object from the drive to the Desktop.
The other thing that struck me was the variety of errors, rather than one. This tends to support BDAqua's suggestion of power problems. I'd check the cable and its plugs carefully. If yor Superdrive reported a variety of errors as well, I'd suggest a problem with your iMac.
There were many problems with the LaCie drive when 10.4.9 appeared (big changes to the kernel). Kludges & hacks ran amok, but all everything has worked after a few patches by Apple. That was years ago. My LaCie (Samsung w/Lightscribe) has never had another problem
Does either of your drive burn CDs? This I ask because of BDAqua's second statement. There's nothing simple about DVD. An engineer, writing about how it worked, ended with 'it's a miracle it works at all'.
When a optical drive dies a natural death (all is ephemeral), the DVD lasers get knocked out of alignment or burn out first. CD continues working.
So, you know the routine: be sure your blank media are blank (or, try a DVD-RW to be safe), change buses if you can or cables if you can't, then try a friend's burner. You can visit LaCie and install a new driver. (Though, like Adobe, it has an installer installer.) I'm not sure whether you need to be in warranty to place a 'trouble ticket' with LaCie; but that's a possibility. The desktop icons would suggest an inconsistency at Apple (which is next to heresy) or a problem with your iMac. Perhaps other have seen this. In any case, your symptoms are not the typical ones expected from a naturally dying drive.

Burning w/external drive

What's the first version of the iDVD suite that permits a user to burn a disk with an external drive? Is it 4 or 5? TIA for any help. I'm trying to help my brother decide what to get for his eMac.

Hello Greg,
the only version that will recognize an external burner natively is iDVD 6. However there are options to make external burners available for vers. 4 and 5:
1. Patchburn is a little utility that installs drivers for ext. burners, so that they can be recognized by iDVD 5 (not sure about vers. 4).
http://www.patchburn.de/
2. In iDVD 5 disk image creation was introduced. Creating a disk image allows you to use other software (Disk Utility, Roxio Toast) to take over the actual burn process and thus employing a third-party burner.
Disk Image creation can be enabled for iDVD 4 by installing a little patch:
http://homepage.mac.com/geerlingguy/macsupport/mac_help/pages/0015-burn_idvdother.html
Before deciding, check the system requirements for the various iLife versions:
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=93634
hope this helps
mish

HELP! Import iPhoto 4 pics from external drive into iPhoto 5

I had computer issues so cleared my hard drive which was with iPhoto 4
Moved the entire iPhoto Library to my external.
When they updated my software they used the 5 version.
Now I am having issues getting iPhoto 5 to recognize my data.
I have tried various way indicated... but each one presents with a different problem.
* If I pull them directly from the External drive to the Photo finder window - then when I open iPhoto i get the spinning wheel for HOURS (quit after 12).
* If I drag them directly to Iphoto (either the entire folder OR year by year)
They do show up in iPhoto, however, in iPhoto ALL dates are the date I pulled the iPhoto Library onto my External drive. Also, when in iPhoto there are film roles, however, the events are mixed up.
I have tried this about 10 times, all different ways, my latest is now it imports them in DUPLICATE (and I had deleted teh thumb files prior to import)
My question:
How do I pull my iPhoto 4 library into iPhoto 5 and KEEP proper fiilm roles to include 1) Correct pictures in each 2) correct dates and 3) preserve the role titles 4) not duplicated
HELP!!!
THANKS!

Here are some instructions from Apple in iPhoto Help that explain how to switch from your normal iphoto library (on your internal drive) to your older iphoto library (on your external drive:
"You can switch from the photo library you're currently working on to another one you've already created.
1.Quit iPhoto.
2.Rename your current iPhoto Library folder in the Finder or move it to a new location on your hard disk, and then open iPhoto.
3. Tip: If you don't want to rename or move your current iPhoto Library folder, hold down the Option key while opening iPhoto.
4. Click Find Library.
5. Choose the library you want to display.
6. Click Open.
The library appears in the iPhoto viewing area."
If you succeed in doing this, you can thus direct your iphoto 5 program to open the iphoto 4 library on your external. If this succeeds, iphoto 5 will automatically convert that library to iphoto 5. Then you can burn your external drive iphoto 5 library to CD or DVD using the "burn" function from within iphoto. It is best if you can fit everything on one CD or DVD, but if not, you can burn by album, or by roll, or even by date. Make sure you burn this disk (or these disks) from within iphoto 5. Then, following the above instructions again, revert back to your internal drive iphoto 5 library. Then, while iphoto is running, insert those CDs/DVDs you burned from within iphoto earlier and when you do, each will appear inside iphoto along with your other albums. Each CD or DVD, as you insert it, will look like another album. You can then import those into your existing internal drive library. Unless you hhave many thousands of photos, this should not take a long time.
By the way, if ALL your photos are in that external drive iphoto library, you can first quit iphoto and then you can drag it over and replace your internal drive iPhoto Library with the external drive iPhoto Library. Then iPhoto 5 will convert the older library automatically when it starts up.
Before doing any of these things, I suggest backing up all your photos to something safe as if there is some corruption in your original library, it could get mangled in a way that makes it unusable and then you'll need that backup.
I have actually done what I have descriibed above. We have an older iMac G3 with iPhoto 4. We got my daughter a new iMac G5 which came with iPhoto 5. I copied over her iPhoto Library from the iMac G3 which had been running iPhoto 4, and when she started iPhoto 5 for the first time on the new iMac, it converted everything in the old iPhoto Library (created under iPhoto 4) to iPhoto 5.
You would only need the CDs/DVDs if you have two libraries you want to merge, one being an iPhoto 4 Library, and the other being an iPhoto 5 Library.
There is a guy named "Old Toad" who sometimes comments in this forum. He probably has a better way of doing this.

If I replace my old iMac with a new one can I burn DVDs on an external drive using Mountain Lion or Toast?

My 2006 iMac is getting a bit long in the tooth and I was thinking of replacing it with a new one. However, Mac have not included an optical drive and I back up my photographs on DVD as well as external hard drives. I also supply DVDs of my work to friends etc.
Will I be able to burn to an external drive using Mountain Lion or other software such as Toast? Does the burn option still exist on the new machines?

Hello,
You shouldn't have any problem, if you do just try Burn...
http://burn-osx.sourceforge.net/Pages/English/home.html

Do I really need to buy an external drive to burn DVDs on my eMac (10.4)?

I have been trying to burn DVDs (using DVD-Rs, not DVD+Rs) on my eMac (OS 10.4) without success. The machine just acts as if nothing has been put in the drive; it whirrs and whirrs, no icon appears, no error message, nothing, until after half an hour or so I have to just eject it. On another forum, I was told that the problem was probably that my eMac can't recognize blank DVD-Rs, let alone burn them, without an external drive that has to be purchased separately. I want to be sure that's really true before buying anything, needless to say!
Another string on this forum suggested looking under "optical drive" under "About This Mac" to find out this kind of thing. I see nothing that specifically says "optical drive," but under Hardware and Disc Burning, it says:
HL-DT-ST RW/DVD GCC-4481B:
Firmware Revision: 2.05
Interconnect: ATAPI
Burn Support: Yes (Apple Shipped/Supported)
Cache: 2048 KB
Reads DVD: Yes
CD-Write: -R, -RW
Burn Underrun Protection CD: Yes
Write Strategies: CD-TAO, CD-SAO, CD-Raw
Media: No
Is this enough information for someone to please be able to tell me whether I do indeed need to buy an external disc drive before I can burn DVDs?
(And, if so, what kind of drive is recommended?)
Thanks in advance for any help.
Chris Roth
[email protected]

While you can replace the intenal drive, opening up an eMac is not a trivial process and it's far easier to add an external drive. Go with Firewire rather than USB, even if your eMac is USB 2.0; support for Firewire under OS X is better and more stable.You can get a Firewire enclosure for around US$30 to $40 and a bare DVD-RW/CD-RW for about the same; or buy a complete system for around US$130 to $200 depending on features such as third-party burning software (Toast) or built-in label making with special DVD-R or CD-R blanks (LightScribe). OS X 10.3.3 and higher (which of course includes the 10.4 in your profile) includes native support for DVD-R burning, so you don't strictly need third-party software such as Toast, but Toast is more flexible than the built-in burner and allows for packing more data on a disc since Toast has better control over the disc's directory size. LightScribe is an appealing idea, but slow, and the blanks are expensive. When consideringf whether to roll your own, so to speak, with an enclosure and bare drive, don't overlook that you'll need a good-quality Firewire cable; cheap cables can cause a surprising amount of grief. Unless you have a bare DVD-RW drive handy, I persoanlly find the convenience of a commercial drive, with cable and power supply/cord already packaged together, outweighs the savings of assembling a drive yourself. I'm partial to LaCie D2 Firewire drives myself, but there are other models that work fine.

Is it possible to burn playlists in MP3 format from i tunes to an external drive such as a USB stick. I can only find options to burn to a CD

hi there,
New to these forums and communites and was just trying to get feedback on this question...is it possible to burn playlists in MP3 format from i tunes to an external drive such as a USB stick. I can only find options to burn to a CD.
If anyone can help[ that would be great.

Melofthesea wrote:
hi there,
New to these forums and communites and was just trying to get feedback on this question...is it possible to burn playlists in MP3 format from i tunes to an external drive such as a USB stick. I can only find options to burn to a CD.
If anyone can help[ that would be great.
Mel, Sure, although that is "copying," not "burning." It is easily done, as follows:
Insert the USB stick into your computer, and open it up so it looks like a folder. Highlight the songs you want in iTunes, and drag them into the folder.
If you normally run iTunes in full screen mode, make it smaller so that you can do the drag.

Macbook Pro not able to burn from External DVD drive

Hi there,
I just bought a Samsung SE-208DB external drive for my 2011 Macbook Pro 8,1 13inch and at first the drive was detected by my Macbook Pro and I was able ot burn a disk but now when I plug in the device, it powers on for a bit then powers off to were I can't eject the disk anymore.Then sometimes it works just fine. I am using an external USB hub with AC plug power so I am confident power to the USb isn't an issue. I just wanted to know are Macbook Pro known to have issues with external drives?
And for those wondering why I don't just use the internal DVD on my Macbook Pro, I replaced it with an SSD for dedicated Windows 7 operating system.
Any ideas on how to approached this problem? Should I just get another brand of external DVD drive. I know I can't get Apples as for some strange reason, Apple makes those only compatible with Macs that didn't come with DVD drives like the Macbook Air.
Thanks

Ok I solved it.
The problem is that the drive uses too much power from the usb port.
You can use one of those cables with on one end two usb plugs and on the other end a mini usb. Connect the coresponding usb for power to an iphone charger or any 5v/1amp charger.
Or you can do what I did. I used a usb hub. In one usb port I connected my iphone charger and the drive to another usb port on the hub.
I have just burned my first succesful disc.
Regards

Burning to external CD drives - is it possible?

Hi there
Does iTunes support burning to external CD drives?
I could be wrong but I think read somewhere that this is not possible. I hope you can correct me as I'm looking for a faster burner with LightScribe feature.
Many thanks

Yes some do, at least modern versions (really old ones wouldn't and you had to use a utility called patchburn). See bullet #3 on this page...
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?path=iTunesMac/7.3/en/576x.html
Patrick

Using iDVD 6 with an external burner and hard drive

Last year I bought a 12" iBook which, of course, didn't come with a Superdrive. It also came with a 40 gig hard drive.
I'm down to 10 gigs but have an external drive with plenty of space on it.
I just recently bought a camcorder and due to the lack of a superdrive I've been using a very mediocre third party app on my Windows laptop to create DVDs.
I would like to use iMovie and iDVD to create my DVDs and am wondering if it is possible to daisy chain an external firewire hd and an external firewire DVD burner to accomplish this?
Alternatively, how much below 10 gigs can I go on my internal drive before I start running into virtual memory problems as some of these projects get kinda of large.

I have a setup similar to the one you are
contemplating: IBook with external LaCie DVD burner
and a LaCie external HDD connected to that.......
Note: do not burn directly from iDVD with this setup.
Instead use iDVD's "Save as Disc Image" option (File
Save as Disk image).
hope this helps
mish
I'm guessing you haven't been able to do a DL disc image either. (Assuming you've tried.)
Read http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=546615&tstart=0
mrbl

I can't set up my Samsung external drive to burn CDs,, I can't set up my Samsung external drive to burn CDs,

I have a late 2006 MacBook, the cd drive doesn't burn anymore so I bought a Samsung external drive that is compatible for Mac, but I can't figure out how to get it going, I want to burn music CDs to it, help!

Hi, Well I can see that since your post Anthony Scully nobody has answered your question. All I can say is that I have the same problem (and thanks to you I will not try and call Moto support) and that it is now roughly 6 month since you posted and that with a brand new V3i the problem is still the same...

I am trying to get itunes to burn a disc on a Samsung external drive but I get a message disc burner or software not found. Itunes 11.1.5.5 does recognize a bought disc in the drive.

I am trying to get itunes to burn a disc on a Samsung external drive but I get a message disc burner or software not found. Itunes 11.1.5.5 does recognize a bought disc in the drive.

Try HT203242: iTunes for Windows: Optical drive is no longer recognized, or "Disc burner or software not found" alert after install.
tt2

Cannot rip a cd with internal drive while burning disc with external drive

Does anyone know why I cannot access any disc with my internal superdrive while Toast Titanium 11 is burning a blu-ray movie on my external drive?
Drive that is being used to burn externally is a LG WH10LS30 model

Pretty simple. You just can't do that.

Burning cd's from iPhoto library on external drive

ok, here is my problem... I've got an old powerbook g3 which I gave my mother for storing and sorting her photos. As the disk space on this powerbook is quite limited I though of buying a firewire card and an external firewire drive and load the whole iPhoto library onto it. My question is; is there some way to burn cd's or DVD's out of iPhoto from this external drive on my powermac G5?

Blanche:
Welcome to the Apple Discussions. You won't be able to burn the disks directly from within iPhoto but if you're just wanting to burn a disk containing image files you can do that.
In iPhoto create an album of those you want to burn. Then select the album and use the Share->Export->File Export menu route to export the full sized files to a folder on the desktop. Name the folder appropriately and insert a blank disk. When the disk mounts on the desktop drag the folder to the disk. Once copied to the disk, make sure the files are full sized (a couple of times I got aliases only so make it a point to double check before burning). Then drag the disk icon to the Trash which will turn into a Burn button.
But iPhoto will only recognize internal drives for burning iPhoto formatted disks right from inside.

Is there an external drive to burn MINI CD-R disks

Is there an external drive to burn MINI CD-R disk on imac

Usually, external desktop, flat, tray-loading style CD/DVD optical drives wil have a special area indented area for the laying down of mini CD or DVDs
You will need to search for tray loading CD/DVD optical drives and see if they show a picture of the tray or mention anything about mini CDs or mini DVDs

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