Burning 2 DVD's at a time (DVDSP 4.1.1)

Is it possible to burn two DVD(-R')s at a time from DVD Studio Pro with the two SuperDrives installed?
Thanks
Paul

You can't burn two at a time from DVDSP but you can from Disk Utility.
First, instead of burning a DVD from DVDSP, make a disk image file. In the DVDSP Format dialog box where the burner selection menu is, select harddrive instead of your burner and DVDSP will create the disk image.
Then open the disk image with Disk Utility. Select the image in the left side and click the burn button. Select one of your Superdrives and click burn (assuming its loaded and ready).
As soon as the first Superdrive starts burning, click the burn button again and choose the other Superdrive and it will begin burning the same image (again, assuming its loaded with a blank DVD).
You can keep this parallel burning going as fast as you can load DVDs and click the correct buttons.

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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.
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