Setting Burn Speeds in DVD studio 4

Hello,
I want to burn a master copy for a dvd i am making and i was wondering how you set the slowest burn speed to ensure the highest quality? Thanks very much.
-Phil Smage

You can't change the burn speed in DVD Studio Pro. In order to burn at a slower speed, you'll need to create a disc image and burn that with something like Toast or Disk Utility.
To create a disc image, do a Build & Format. In the Destination section of the window that appears, change the output device from your burner to "Hard Drive". Leave the Output Format at ".img" since it sounds like you're just burning copies and aren't sending it to replication.
When it's done, burn this disc image with one of the above listed programs and you'll be able to change the burn speed.
Note that if you're creating a disc image of a dual-layer project, the break point you specified will be lost, and Toast will simply fill up the first layer and then switches to the second. This is because no layer break information is included in the image file.
If you have Toast, you can also just build the VIDEO_TS folder and burn a disc from that. Toast 7 and above is smart enough to ignore the extra files that DVDSP puts in there.

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