Cannot burn a blank DVD+RW disk

Since I installed Mountain Lion, this is the first time I am trying to burn data to a TDK DVD+RW disk. When I put the blank disk into the computer, the Disk Utility window opens showing the SuperDrive. It has to items: 1 Choose how to erase it and 2 Click Erase. Then I have to make the choice between earasing the data on disk Quickly or Completely. Since it is a blank disk, I chose Quickly. Once this finished, nothing else happened. In fact, no disk icon appeared on the Desktop at any time.
I would hope that I would not have to erase completely every time I used a blank disk, since that takes an hour.
There is nothing in the Disk Utility Preferences that apply to the disk.
The mac will recognize a DVD+RW I created with Snow Leopard OS.
Any suggestions to help me with this problem. My warranty has run out on the computer, so I can't call Apple.

If you are using the correct format, then maybe you
do need a third party utility like Roxio Toast which
has offered multisession burning since before Disk
Utility.
Except that Toast does not support multisession DVD -- only CD. There's an article on Roxio's support site that explains the reason for not supporting multisession DVD: there is no standard for it. All the software that can burn multisession DVDs do it in a way that is not standards-based.

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Hey everyone out there,
My imac is a week old now and i'm starting to experience dvd burning problems. Here is the low down. Used 1-step dvd feature in idvd5 to burn a mini-dv tape from my sony dcr-hc42. It burned succesfully on the 1st 2 tries. On the 3rd try it says to "insert blank dvd-r disk" and spits out the blank dvd. I've read different posts that say to try using dvd -r disks - only suggestion I could find. I have been using dvd -r disks - in fact I've tried 3 different kinds (sony, TDK, memorex) all with the same result. I also got a suggestion to dl toast and test the burner with toast - Same result. It won't even read the blank dvd-r in the drive. Is my burner having problems or is this a problem with ilife 5. It's still new and under warranty so I'll give apple a call and post their directions here. Any other suggestions will be greatly appreciated. Thanks!!!
Where would I be without this forums!!! (on my windows computer, bleh!) =)
arn

Hey Jordan,
I dl'd patchburn and it does the same thing as it did with idvd and toast. It says "please insert a blank dvd-r disk" then ejects the disk. D'oh!!! I just finished talking with apple tech support and here's the low down:
we tried reading the blank disk with finder. Wouldn't even show up on desktop. Then we popped in a movie dvd - read just fine. We went in to system preferences (cds/dvds) - everything a ok. Finally, popped in the mac os disk and did a new archive install - same result =( The tech told me to take it into an apple store which I will be doing soon. Their explanation was that since it was reading the data dvds fine, the problem was the head that detects blank dvds was malfunctioning ( i guess it has 2 heads - 1 to read the data and 1 to detect blank disks). Either way it's covered under warranty ( 1 week old) so hopefully they'll take care of it. I'll post more news once I get it back - crossing my fingers X .....
By the way, thanks for the replies. This forum system is awesome.
arn =)

Does or which Adobe software to use to actually burn the cd/dvd to disk? Thanks

Does or which Adobe software to use to actually burn the cd/dvd to disk?
If not any recommendations on a good burn software?
Thanks in advance!

Moving to Encore forum
CS5-thru-CC PPro/Encore tutorial list http://forums.adobe.com/thread/1448923 will help
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I burned an exercise DVD using disk utility and when I played it in my DVD player it was choppy and skipped. Any suggestions are greatly appreciated.

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Commercial
Roxio Toast
<http://www.roxio.com/enu/products/toast/titanium/>
NTI DragonBurn
<http://www.ntidragonburn.com/en/us/product/dragon_burn.asp?>
Shareware or freeware
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<http://geek.thinkunique.org/2007/07/17/dvd-image-utility/>
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<http://discoapp.com/>
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<http://www.maconnect.ch/>
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Burn
<http://burn-osx.sourceforge.net/Pages/English/home.html>
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Terminal Whiz Kid
mkisofs
<http://cdrecord.berlios.de/private/cdrecord.html>
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cannot burn slideshow to dvd+r 16x4.7gb is something i can do diffrently..

What's the problem exactly? The file is too large? How are you burning it? We need clear information to help
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TD

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Cannot burn Apple supplied DVD-R

I have a MATSHITA DVD-R UJ-815 (CD-RW/DVD-R) and cannot burn a DVD-R 2X purchased from Apple. Any suggestions?
I got this burn message:
"Burning disc: "Untitled DVD"
An error occurred while burning the disc. This disc cannot be used."
The disc then ejected and I got this message:
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"Burning the disc failed because this type of CD is not supported. Error code 0x8002043"
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Using Disk Utility, I created an Image, (File > New Image from Folder), The resulting .dmg file was about 8.3 Gigabytes. Still in Disk Utility, I select the volume (Filename.dmg) and click Burn, insert a dual layer disk and get a "Disk does not have enough free space" message. I create another image of the same folder, but select "Compressed", giving a folder size of about 6.2 Gigabytes. I try to burn this but again get the "not enough free space" message.
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I bought a W510 as a host for a scanner in late 2010. My T60p was having fan problems and I liked the W510 so much that I bought a W520. Originally I was going to use the W520 for the scanner/photo processing but frankly the monitor on the W510 tunes up a little better so I'm staying.
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The two systems came with different DVD writers. The W510 MAT**bleep**A DVD-RAM UJ8A0A and the W520 a HL-DL-ST DVDRAM GT30N. Neither drive in neither system can works.
I can write about 1 of 10 discs on either system/drive (I've made a lot of coasters over the past month).
At first I thought it was related to the Memorex media. Last week before I went out of town I got some other vendors, and started with the Kodak discs but I'm getting hockey pucks at the same failure rate as Memorex, so I conclude the media is not the root cause.
I also have an external USB drive, Lite On with a HL-DT-ST DVDRAM GE24LU20 drive in it that also will not work. The external drive says is it supports up to 8x write speed, but rarely gets above 3-4, but it still makes coasters.
I've tried limiting the write speed to 2.4x but it still makes coasters.
I can't believe with a 2 host, 2 drive matrix that there is a drive or system failure involved. There just has to be something else going on.
Does anyone have any suggestions?
Thanks!
Tony

Another fact set. On the failures, 40% of them fail during the write, another 40% fail during the verify pass with a compare error, and the remaining 20% cannot be read after the burn.
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For others even when successful the reflectivity of the disc almost makes it look like the write portion didn't finish the write pad out to finish the disc, and I think some of the read errors are occurring in layer 1 past the transition region. The Roxio software has the option to finish the disc but the Corel burn.now and the included windows DVD ISO burner do not.
Writing dual layer has never worked on my W510 but my T60p didn't have troubles. What I don't know is whether the difference is T60 to W5x0 or Windows XP to Windows 7.
Again, any suggestions welcome.

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As many other posts have stated; I am unable to burn the Audio portion of an iDVD nor does "save as disk image" transfer the audio of my iDVD. Transferred an iMovie, (an iPhoto set of photos with iTunes audio imported into iMovie) to iDVD. Audio plays on iMovie, audio plays on iDVD preview. Tried removing recommended ~com.apple.iXXX.plist, no help. Tried different encoding methods: i.e. Best/High/Professional. Tried saving to different sizes HD/Large/etc. Tried Share Media in iTunes, Media Browser, etc. Checked Main Audio, volume slider bar in iDVD. Tried importing audio into iDVD rather than transferring from iMovie. It doesn't seem to matter how I build the iDVD it works, until I go to Save As Disk Image or Burn DVD. Video works great (better in Large than HD) Audio doesn't transfer.
21 total minutes, 1.15GB of final iDVD using a default theme.

Hi
(an iPhoto set of photos with iTunes audio imported into iMovie) to iDVD
Yes this is the problem - in iTunes there is a copy-protection that moves over
Result
• Plays well in iMovie
• Plays well in iDVD preview
• Silent on DVD
Only way around this is to in iTunes collect needed audio into a play-list
Burn this out as an Audio-CD and .aiff (NOT .mp3)
Use the audio on this CD in Your iMovie project.
Yours Bengt W

Downloaded latest update, now I cannot burn projects to dvd's!!! I would have never updated if I knew I would loose that capability.

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I am having the same problem...but in my case I am trying to create an avchc dvd (a high definition format play able in Blu-ray players using standard dvds). (Still struggling in fact...)
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Yet another wierd eccentricity of the Mac-world.... I put a blank DVD into my Mac; in the 'get info' window it all looks normal, and UNlocked - yet as soon as I drag the files across to burn them, it suddenly tells me I cannot burn onto this DVD because it is 'locked'. I look again in 'Get info' - and the DVD is locked - and the box is greyed out so I cannot untick it...This has happened 4 times now & I'm getting sick of it - does anyone know what is going on here & why all the blank DVDs become mysteriously 'locked' when I try to burn files to them? Thanks...

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