Is making a copy of a DVD as good quality as burning another original?

I am transfering old video tape onto DVD. When finished, I will have a dozen different DVDs. I want to give copies to my family for Christmas. Burning the first 12 and then making copies seems to be the fastest way to do this. But will I get a better product if I burn multiple originals from iDVD.
What I don't know is if iDVD is going to render and compress the project for each additional DVD - thus adding hours of production time. Anyone have a suggestion?

Being digital there should be no quality loss from copy to copy.
The easiest, and quickest, way to burn multiple copies of a DVD is to save the DVD project as a disk image, and burn that in the required number. No rendering is involved.
Bear in mind that your Superdrive can get hot. Give it a rest, and yourself a coffee, after you have burnt 3 or 4 copies!
This may also help:
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1152?viewlocale=en_US

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I am a fine artist, but the language of Comps/Mac I am just learning. when you say "pre existing movie folder" and "media bin" what do you mean. I saved project as a movie/doc etc but iDVD does not allow to retrieve. Also dragged in a pre existing folder in iMovie=but it would not allow me to open or save to disc. I hope I am clumsily doing something very wrong.
ty 4 any help. regards imamura. seattle

when you open the Finder you see on the left some 'icons', a house, a key (music), a frame (pictures)... and a clapper (=Movies)
any iM project in THIS movie folder is automatically detect by iDVD...
when you choose 'New Project' in iM - choose THIS as location for your project.
or, if you work with an ext. harddrive, after finishing your project, simply drag in Finder the project from ext. hdd to that 'Movies' folder..
it does NOT work, if you re-create a folder, and name it manually 'Movies'... the folders, which came delivered with your Mac from factory are slightly 'different' .. that's why I called them 'pre-installed' ... sorry, for confusing you...
be sure, you can differ a program from a file...
iMovie is a program, created by Apple, located in your applications folder
projects are 'files', created by you, located anywhere...
when you choose 'New Project', such a 'file' is created instantly (and, just to mention, is no 'doc', Word-files are '.doc') ...
don't hesitate to spend some time reading here:
http://www.apple.com/ilife/tutorials/imovie/index.html
http://www.apple.com/support/mac101/
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I am exporting my projects by compressing them to quicktime and opening them in idvd. When I preview the movies they look good and have good quality, but after I burn them they are pixily or seem to look like videos when the tracking is messed up. I don't know how to fix this, are their special settings I need to fix before exporting??? Please help....thanx!

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Sometimes the drives are sensitive to the certain brands of DVDs. Exactly what DVD's are you using? I've found the easiest (it's time consuming though) method is to create a folder on the desktop then copy the original DVD's files and pasting them into the folder. After all are copied select all the files and folders (Command A) the right click and select Burn. I've also found it's best to have a bland DVD already in the drive when I select Burn.

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If it is a video DVD then those files MUST be there!
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http://www.apple.com/quicktime/mpeg2/
which is a mere $20.
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