Quickest way to duplicate a DVD!

I have made a movie in iDVD and I'm wondering if there is a quicker way to duplicate it. It seems that the 1 hour plus time that it takes to burn a DVD in iDVD is a lot more than it should be. Any thoughts on how to duplicate a DVD fast. I need to make half a dozen copies of my son's football game.
Thanks, Dave

Hi lodi17
And welcome to apple discussions. Perhaps the faster way is to simply keep inserting dvd's one after the other in iDvd when prompted (provided you allow the S-Drive to cool in between copies).
But a safer way is to fist make a disc image from the file menu contained w/in iDvd and then burn copies from this image.
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Another way is to do as I do and use Roxio Toast for all copies and burn to Verbatim at 4x.
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