DVD copies

Hi everybody
I have finished a project and I have burn my DVD with DVDSP.
Now I would like to make a few copies of the DVD.
I need advise.
What is the best way to ensure quality and avoid problems with other DVD players ?
Burn the VideoTS with toast as a file ?
Redo x times what I did for the original with DVDSP ?
Thanks in advance
Bernard

Bernard:
- Build your project in yur hard drive in the location you choose. You can play the VIDEO_TS folder using Apple DVD Player; that's a good first test that everything works fine, at least playing the disc froma computer.
- Choose Format and select Hard Drive as your Destination. You'll be prompted where you want to save the .img file and how you want to name it.
- Double click the .img disc image to muont it and you can test it once with DVD Player.
- If you are happy with the disc, unmount it and you can use the .img file to burn your discs, with no need to take anything mannually from inside the image, using one of the two following workflows:
You have Toast
Drag the .img file from your finder over the Toast icon. Toast will open in Copy mode and you can burn your disc/s. You can tell Toast how many copies you want and it will ask you for each blank media once burned a disk.
Using just Disk Utility
Go to Applications > Utilities > Disk Utility. Drag and drop your .img file in the left panel of Disk Utility or go to File > Open Disc Image and navigate to your .img file. Select this image in the panel and click on Burn; you'll be prompted to insert the blank media.
You have to repeat the procedure for each copy.
Burning your disc copies from inside DVDSP your are in risk of changing something in your project. Using tha VIDEO_TS folder to create the disc mannually in Toast you can leave something inside that you don't need or change something inside the VIDEO_TS folder by mistake that could make your copies unusable.
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