Burning Copies of DVD's

Hi All,
I have just finished building and burning the first copy of a slideshow created in DVD SP. I would like to burn a couple of additional copies, is it best to do this thru DVD SP again or in Toast? Does DVD SP go thru the whole building process each time you want to burn the DVD again?
In Toast I assume it is 'video' rather than 'data' and 'DVD-video from VIDEO_TS'
Thanks!
Fi
Dual G5 Mac OS X (10.4.5)

Toast, Popcorn, and the Finder all do this.
Here's some instructions:
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=42724

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Burning copies from DVD

Hi again, as a beginner, I made a tragic mistake and accidently deleted my DVD Studio Pro project!!! I had already burnt a copy to disc which all works fine but what I'm wondering now is how to make more copies of my project from that disc. Is that possible (I presume it is!) and if so, is anyone able to help me with how to do it? Thanks

Put the DVD in the player
Open Up Disk Utilty
Create new image from the DVD in the player (make CD-R/DVD master in the selection)
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Burning copies of DVD files

With earlier versions of OS X, I could copy previously burned DVDs by transferring the files (AUDIO_TS and VIDEO_TS or whatever) from the DVD to the desktop, ejecting the original DVD, inserting a new clean DVD, dragging the files to the new disc, and clicking on BURN. Since switching to SnowLeopard, I follow the same steps but get a disc that is unreadable not only by my iMac but by the several DVD players I own. I get a variety of different error messages, e.g. "Unknown Disc" and "Disc is incompatible" and "Disc is unreadable." I can see that something is burned on the disc. Am I doing something wrong or is there some new procedure to follow?

#from Disk Utility help#
To duplicate a CD or DVD (using Disk Utility):
Insert the CD or DVD disc in the optical drive, and select it in the list at the left.
Choose File > New > “Disk Image from {disc name}.”
Type a name for the disk image.
Choose “compressed” or “read-only” from the Image Format pop-up menu.
Choose “compressed” to create a smaller disk image. Choose “read-only” to create a disk image that’s quicker to create and open.
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Burning copies of authored DVD

Hi,
I recently finished authoring a DVD and put a copy of the video and audio TS in a folder that I pulled from the DVD.
I would like to burn copies of the DVD from this folder. When I do however the DVD doens't perform from its authorship. Can anyone help?
Thanx,
John

Place the DVD in the drive
Put DVD in the drive
Go to Disc Utility and select the DVD in the right side then select New Image-->Image Format CD/DVD Master
Save the image, then you will have the image to mount/burn as mentioned in the Ken Stone site article

Burning multiply copies of dvd?

I just finished burning my movie in idvd and I was wondering is it possible to make multiply copies of the dvd in idvd? or do I have to make copies from the file in idvd? Thanks!

Yes, you can make multiple DVD's without having to go through the lengthy encoding process for each one.
Save your iDVD project as a Disk Image (an option from the File menu). This will take awhile because all the encoding is done just as if you were burning a DVD. Once it done, and you have a Disk Image, you can burn as many DVD's off of that as you want without having to do the encoding again.
The way you do that is by opening the Applications/Utilities/Disk Utility window on your Mac. Drag your disk image icon into the pane on the left side of the window, if its not already there. Select the disk image icon in the pane, and then hit the Burn button in the upper left. Your Mac will prompt you to insert a DVD-R disk. Insert it and hit Close. After a few seconds, the burn button in the little drop down box will illuminate to blue. Click on it and wait while your DVD is being burned. It should take about 1/10 the time as burning the original disk image, because all of the encoding already has been done. You can burn a few disks this way and then shut down if you want and come back the next day. Open Disk Utility and start burning more disks without having to encode.
There are some nice things about disk images. First, they are stand alone and can be saved or stored independently of any of the other assets or media in your project. Secondly, they take up much less disk space than than the iMovie project itself or an archive of the iDVD project. Thirdly, you can burn at 4x or lower speed, whereas burning directly for iDVD will not let you adjust your burn speed. Fourthly, you can play back your Disk Image using the DVD player on your Mac. (Double click on your Disk Image icon, then click on DVD Player in your Applications folder.) The play back will look exactly like the play back you get from the DVD you burn.

Using disk utility to burn new image dvd's

Ok I just learned to burn DVD'd using Disk Utility and New image.
But I have come to halt in my burning with a new issue.
My issue is that I have a file that is 4.63GB. When I make a new image so that I can burn it, it increases the size of the file(Video TS) to 5.13GB. Making it to big for a 4.7GB DVD.
My question is is this normal for the new image file to increase in size, and is there a way for me to stop this from happening. Or can anyone give me any other suggestions. Please help.

Ok I have never tried that, as this is the first time it is suggested to me.
The reason i have been doing it via DU, is because this has been to only way to get it to play on
home DVD player and burn with the UDF setting. I was told to do it this way when I was trying to burn
copies of my nieces fifteens that was prof. done on a DVD.
I am trying to burn a copy of a movie so that it can be played on home dvd players. Yes I have done this before and the copies I burned via DU/new image, worked perfectly. And the ones I burned by just choosing file and burning it did not work.
So any help would be great.

Burning movie to DVD after it was already done

Created a movie in iMove HD6, burned it to DVD. All is great!
Days later, I need a few more copies, and iMovie wants to do the long rendering process again.
Since it was done once, is there a way to expedite the process?

No, you will need to do the long rendering process again, because you burned directly from iDVD. But, as long as you have to re-encode again, instead save your iDVD project as a Disk Image (an option on the File menu) and burn your DVD from the Disk Image using the Disk Utility application on your Mac. The rendering process will be done only once, when you create the Disk Image. After that, you can burn as many DVDs as you want, in as many different sessions as you want, from the Disk Image with Disk Utility without any more endoding. Takes about 1/10th of the time.

File permissions on burned CDs and DVDs

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Haven't tried scanning the discs since I myself don't have access to a Windows machine. I've tried various brands of discs but to no avail; one thing I've noticed though is that DVD+R discs seem to function every now and then but things with CDs and DVD-Rs aren't the same.
Well, it's only 10 extra minutes to make the image and burn it so maybe I'll have to cope with it.

Burning copies on my idle computer

After I've completed my new DVD I'll need to burn about 20 copies and I'd like to do that on my G4 (which is just sitting there waiting for something to do) so I can continue doing other work on my main computer.
Is there any reason why I shouldn't just use Toast do make the copies?
If it's better for me to burn from DVDSP, what needs to be on my G4? Do I just need to copy the VIDEO_TS folder that's created when I burn my first DVD, or do I need to copy all the assets and the DVDSP file also? Will transfering these files mean that all the links will be messed up and I'll have to re-link everything on my G4 before burning the copies?

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Ken points out in this article, this method let's you
see what your finished DVD is really, really, REALLY
going to look like before you try burning your first
physical CD. This way the image mounts on your
desktop like the actual final product and you can
view exactly what it's going to look like after all
the encoding, etc.
I'm not sure that is fully correct. By relying on the disc image you are not testing the compatibility of the project on an actual DVD player, nor in fact testing it on several different DVD players. I have found that different players can behave differently with the same DVD.
As Ken points out, this method greatly reduces the
risk of making "coasters" when you find that your
final project isn't exactly what you'd planned.
A great advantage of using Toast is that you can reuse DVD RWs over and over again without the tedium of using Disk Utility's erase function which is so very slow. Toast offers a Quick Delete which takes less than a minute and although you can't burn the DVD again except in Toast, that is not a problem, as Toast does a good job.

How to burn copies of home movies

I am trying to burn copies of videos made in school by my daughter, but when I try to add them to iTunes they do not add to library. To work around this I drag them to my desktop, convert to folders and burn the folders into DVD, but the burned DVD has only one file for audio and one for video but does not open automatically and play when I insert it. I know if I could get them into iTunes I could burn copies, but do not know how to do this and if I cannot get them into iTunes is there a way to burn them and have them open automatically and play on the DVD player when inserted. Would very much appreciate help.

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Will this only save my photos in random or will this save the photos and my albums. Or do I have to burn each album separately.
Will this also save my original.
I am scanning all our Family photos. I am scanning and sorting each day. If I backup my photos to DVD today. Can I use the same disk tomorrow, will the Mac read what is on the DVD and only add the new files, or will it burn the whole thing over.
When I finish all the Photos I would like to burn copies for the Family . These will be viewed on Windows PC and TVs. This I would do on IDVD? Click on the file / Share / IDVD. Or do I sill need to drag the file onto the desktop and burn from Finder.
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IF you use the Share -> Burn command then you will get an iPhoto Library on the DVD. When you put this disk into a Mac it will appear in the iPhoto Window and you can copy files from the disk to the Library all in the iPhoto Window. This process gets everything - Originals, albums, keywords etc.
This is of no use to folks with Windows or who want to view photos via their DVD players.
For Windows: Select the pics in the iPhoto Window and go File -> Export and export the photos to a Folder on the Desktop. Then burn that folder to disk using the Finder. This does not get your Originals. Ut simply gets a folders of files.
To make something that’s viewable on a TV then you’ll need to use the Share -> Send to iDVD option. In iDVD you can make a slideshow of the photos. This is not a back up in any way. It makes a movie from the pics.
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Making A Slide Show To Burn To A DVD

His I just started using photshop elemnents 13 from a previous 11 version.
In the past I picked some 300 slides to make a slide show with music and then exported it to a WMV and then imported the WMV into premiere elements and burned a DVD. In phtoshop elements when I selected my slide and created a slide show I could choose how many seconds each slide, the color of the borders, the manner in which slide changed and I used random.
You could then do zoom in or out, make extra slide with information, add music and then save and export to a WMV and then import that into premiere elements and then burn a DVD.
Help
Tom Fitch

Reason I thought PSE4 would burn to a DVD is, there is a button in the slide show screen that says "burn to DVD" in the PSE4 book we were reading.
If Premiere Elements 2 were also installed with Photoshop Elements 4, then it was possible to burn to DVD from the PSE 4 slide show editor by using Premiere Elements 2. Not all writing on that workflow made it obvious that the Premiere Elements software was required.
Would I be better off getting a different program for making slide shows? The pictures I'm trying to make into a slide show are from a 90th birthday party I shoot over the weekend and want to give out copies of a DVD to the guest.
Option 1
If you have already made a slide show in the Photoshop Elements slide show editor, then you might as well do some investigation of the alternatives.
-- What Windows operating system are you running ? If it includes Windows DVD Maker, then I would give that a try. Write your output of the slide show from PSE to a File - WMV - with Size of DVD,NTSC (or DVD,PAL if your TV is PAL format). Then use that WMV file as input to Windows DVD Maker.
-- If you don't have Windows DVD Maker then you could investigate whatever DVD software came with your PC.
FYI - One warning about the photo files that you use in that PSE slide show. If you use hundreds of high resolution photo files, then PSE can have problems. If your output will NOT be High Def (and yours probably will not be since you mentioned a DVD) then "downsizing" the photo files to approx 1000x 750 pixels will decrease the probablility of your having problems with the slide show.
Option 2
If you have not yet started the PSE slide show, then you might consider a program that many people like for slide shows ----- ProShow Gold from Photodex. It does have a trial.

Burning a new DVD

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Burning slideshow onto dvd

I'm trying to burn a iphoto slideshow onto a maxel dvd-r (4.7 GB 16x). The disk is ejecting after the "multiplexing and burning" is done. I tried to save the disk as a disk image and burn from my desktop but the it doesn't let me select the disk image (icon is "grayed"). I'm sure I'm doing something wrong... (I'm working from a MacBook Pro, 10.7.3, software... seems to be up-to-date)
help?

Hi
So - Save as a DiskImage - result's in an icon on DeskTop ?
If You double click on it - Nothing happens ? or does a new icon of a hard disk pop-up ?
If it does - then open/start DVD-tool and play it - Does this work or not ?
I use
• Verbatim DVDs (only)
• DVD-R (only)
• set down burn speed to x2 or x4 - as x16 results in to many Burn Errors for my liking
Multiplex Error
Multiplexing error is a very complex problem due to many things (long long list following) - one common but not obvious reason is that material on the iDVD menu goes outside the TV-Safe area (or just touching it).
So first - turn on TV-Safe area and move any object well inside of this.
Wide screen stretched - usually (as I think) it is due to making a 4x3 movie in a 16x9 wide-screen project OR the other way around. This forces one to on flat-screen TV (or other) set the presenting view right - My has 4x3, wide-screen, zoom and auto-wide-screen and I have to switch this by my remote for some DVD I've made "wrong" way.
Now my long long list on Multiplex Error
LONG LONG LONG LIST
Multiplexing Error
PART One.
Use of strange video/audio material e.g. .avi, .wmv, .mp3 etc.
I only use.
Video - StreamingDV (miniDV tape via FireWire) and
Audio - .aiff (as on audio-CDs) (else converted to this .aiff 48KHz)
Photo - .jpg (.bmp known problematic)
Chapters !
A. Using strange letters in video project name e.g. +,/; etc. keep to a-z and 0-9 strange letters in project name e.g. +
as described by Donnyboy69. Does the title of your project have any symbols or decimal points in it. If so, that is why you are getting the error. I had a project that had a + sign which caused the same problem. I renamed it without the symbol and low and behold, it worked.
B. Location of Chapters
• Can’t be at start or end of movie (Skip first/start one - iDVD sets this by it self. At the End - no need)
• Not in a transition (or within 2-3 seconds from it)
Important when from iMovie HD6 or previous - Now also observed when using FCE 4
PART Two.
from Robert Modero.
"Multiplexing Error. Problem during initialization of tracks"
Simply remember to add subtitles to your Quicktime files and menu buttons.
Once I did that, I was back in business.
from Boise Jim
Do a safe reboot (by holding down the shift key until you see the spinning gear on gray background, then release, then restart when your start-up screen appears).
I always makes a DiskImage first and test this so that it runs OK
I use only - Verbatim DVDs
I use only - DVD-R
I burn at an as slow speed possibly e.g. x1
This gives good DVDs
PART Three.
Multiplex Error
Chuck, Chicago 2/7/2009.
Back again. Here is what I have found to work. I also have and use a LaCie DVD-R/RW DL external drive and a LaCie external hard drive as well. Since yesterday I have tried a few ways to burn a themed iDVD project having four 56 minute movies on it, amounting to 226 minutes onto a DVD DL disc, capacity 240 minutes. Apple tech support really didn't know what to do but gave me a very good tip. I had two options left. Apple tech support's tip was to try disc image. One of the replies on a thread with this subject said not to, but my experience today is good. Put your project onto "Burn to disc image," under "iDVD, file." Yesterday encoding took me 23 1/2 hours. Overnight for iDVD disc image, encoding took 21 1/2 hours (again) while I slept. This morning I tried to copy/burn disc image to a DVD with Roxio Toast 7, and it stopped near the end of the burn with some kind of "error" message. So then I tried Utilities> Disc Utility> Burn icon, and followed it through. Be sure to click the DVD DL drive in the window "Burn disc in.". I had one other problem though. At the end of a 46 minute copy, it started to verify, and at the end of verify it rejected the burn. So I tried again, and when "verify" appeared, I clicked on "Skip." The disc finished burning and is doing fine and well. A long and tortuous process, but at last something works. I made several additional copies using Disc Utility. Best wishes. Chuck, Chicago.
2. Disconnect any other external devices not absolutely needed.
e.g. external USB/USB2 hard disks, other FW hard disks etc.
3 Chapter marks in transitions - minimum 2 sec from
FROM Bev.
(Not a 'guy' but I will answer!)
First, I do not think that mixing wide-screen and standard makes a difference in iDVD.
Second, you should use a better brand of DVD disk. Also, many of us have experienced fewer problems on playback with DVD-R disks. Recommended brands here are Verbatim, Maxell and Taiyo Yuden. Memorex and TDK are not consistent and may not give you a correct burn. They apparently have fewer layers in the composition of the disk. I have always used Verbatim DVD-R disks and have not had any burn problems.
Also, choose a slower burn speed, 4x or less.
Third, to determine if the iDVD project will burn properly, create a disk image file (from within iDVD, go File->Save as Disk Image) and test it. Mount the disk image and then open DVD Player (in Applications) and view your project. If it plays correctly, you can then burn the actual DVD disk from the disk image file using Disk Utility.
From. Boise, Idaho
I did everything I've seen suggested, but a friend (who used to be an Apple Genius) suggested that I do a safe reboot (by holding down the shift key until you see the spinning gear on gray background, then release, then restart when your start-up screen appears).
It worked, and I got a clean burn from iDVD.
Hopefully this can help other people.
by dheb0422
Well, I finally got it, and it was odd enough to post here incase anyone looks this topic up again. Many things were tried, including burning the unedited film, the edited film without titles and chapter markers, abbreviating the chapter markers in case length was the issue (remember the old iMovie used to truncate them when moving to iDVD?). In the process, I noticed that one, and only one, chapter marker was on the same line as the title marker. All the others were on the line above. The only way I seemed able to change that was to clip a few seconds of film. After that last clip, the offending marker took a place on the line above, as were all the others. That run published, compiled completely and burned. That's one for the books.
One user more writes
To add my experience with Multiplex Errors using iDVD (7.0.4), I recently created two iDVD projects
Video from both passed from FCE 4.01 with chapters
One project worked fine in creating disk image file
The other gave Multiplex Errors
I tried suggestions to remove special characters and no chapter marks at beginning, but nothing worked
Note that I've used iDVD for dozens of projects and this is first time I've run into Multiplex Errors
Anyway, for problem project, I tried an experiment where I removed all chapters in FCE and passed to new iDVD project
This time multiplex errors gone
So had something to do with chapters
So now I tried numerous experiments to remove individual chapters and try again creating disk image with new iDVD project
After numerous tries, I was able to narrow problem down to 1 "Bad" chapter mark
That is, when I left the "bad" chapter in my FCE project and passed to iDVD, iDVD gave multiplex error
When I removed "bad" chapter mark (and others in), no multiplex error
As a final experiment, I moved "bad" chapter mark about 5-10 sec's beyond original point and passed to iDVD, the multiplex errors now magically went away and I was able to finally create my disk image.
I have no idea why this worked, but thought I'd mention here in case someone else runs into similar problem.
Rich839
In addition to Bengt's fine advice, burning errors can occur if you have located any of your menu buttons wholly or partly outside of the safe TV viewing area. Go to your main project menu, then click on View/Show TV Safe Area, to check. Drag into the safe viewing area any buttons that are outside the safe viewing area.
Russ One - suggest this
Multiplex Error-There was an error during muxing preparation
One thing that worked for me was to export the video w/o chapter markers as a self contained movie (thereby not loosing the edits & etc). Then make a new FCE project and import that movie into a new sequence and add the chapter markers. I've used "-", "&" and "," with no problem in the chapter names. Removing the markers or exporting without them did solve the problem but renaming them with just numbers 1,2,3....5, did not solve the problem and since this problem seems to happen with with iMovie as well, it would suggest the problem is in the video or audio and in combination with the chapter markers iDVD just can't handle it. The only other possibility is that both iMovie and FCE share the same or similar chapter marker code that some how is corrupting the markers.
Summary - What to try
1. Chapters
• Only A to Z and 0 to 9 in chapter title
• No Chapter mark at very beginning of movie
• No Chapter mark in or within 2 seconds from any transition in movie
2. TV-safe area for buttons (no one outside this)
3. Safe re-boot
4. No other external devices connected - that are not needed
SDMacuser adds to this
• On #4 ... No ext. devices. Some think this applies mainly to ext. FW. Not the case. Also applies to ext. USB2 as well (not to mention flash drives too).
Do not leave 3rd party devices / camera / camcorder plugged in unless it is being used with iDvd's One Step process. Certain web cams can trigger this also (especially ones with added features like LED light/s that draw additional power from the FW or USB bus).
5. Minimum of 25Gb free space on Start-up hard disk
6. Make a DiskImage first - reduces where problem originates
7. Trash iDVD pref. file
8. Make a new iDVD project
9. Movies in project with same aspect ratio e.g. 4x3 or 16x9
10. No other programs/applications running during iDVD process. e.g. Internet, screen & energy savers
Yours Bengt W

Burning a PAL DVD

I have saved the movie into the PAL format. I want to burn it to DVD but I get the message "you are trying to burn a PAL movie to an NTSC disk"
OK, what happens if I proceed with the disk I have.
If I need a PAL Specific Disk, where do I get one?
I only need to make one or two copies but i DO want this to work the first time.
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