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Burn iDVD Video projects onto DVD+R/RW Apps
If you have a dual-format DVD Recorder (some iMacs and G5s), you can use iDVD and Disk Utility to get the video on to DVD+R format. First, create your project as normal, and burn it to a DVD-R disc. Then take use Disk Utility to make a disc image and save it as a .CDR file. Then insert a DVD+R disc, click your disk image in the Disk Utility window, and then burn it to disc.
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Burn iDVD Video projects onto DVD+R/RW
Authored by: hzink on Apr 08, '04 12:05:34PM

Sorry, nt to put a tip down, but what's the point? There's nothing special in imaging an existing disk, and reburning it to DVD+R.

Instead, here's a tip on how to make iDVD burn to an external drive, including on how to have iDVD save directly as a disk image from within iDVD.

http://forum.rpc1.org/viewtopic.php?t=23370

Here's the file needed.

http://forum.rpc1.org/download.php?id=352&sid=9dca94e32a7cd8392d73f36b272a024e

and if you read French, here's the original article.

Harry



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Burn iDVD Video projects onto DVD+R/RW
Authored by: JasonUK on May 10, '04 04:10:44PM

The whole point of this 'tip' was to show how iDVD can record to a disc in the +R/+RW format.
You obviously know nothing about DVD Compatibility if you don't know the problems of DVD-R/RW and DVD+R/RW when playing discs in standalone DVD players.
The benefit of iDVD recording to +R/RW is so that projects with menus, scene selection, etc can be put onto a + format disc. + recording is supported in Panther anyway - but only for data discs. Toast also supports it and you can drag iDVD projects on but you lose the menus, etc.
By getting an iDVD disc image onto a DVD+R/RW disc, you retain all your hard work in making a really good DVD disc, but open yourself upto more drives in the world that can support the disc you've created.



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Burn iDVD Video projects onto DVD+R/RW
Authored by: KRC on Apr 08, '04 01:23:49PM

The big question would be: Will the DVD+R work on an ordinary DVD Player? If I can recall, some DVD+R's don't work on older DVD players ... well, mine doesn't but will take DVD-R's.

Another question: could you allow iDVD to burn on a DVD-RW disc instead of a DVD-R? I never use iDVD so I can't say for certain but I would think it's more conservative to use a DVD-RW disc (since packs of blank DVD media is quite expensive) since the intention of this hint is to copy the DVD image into a DVD+R disc. (For whatever reason, I may not know) That way, once you have cloned the DVD-RW disc into a DVD+R, you could then erase the DVD-RW disc, burn a different iDVD project, then transfer that to a DVD+R.



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Burn iDVD Video projects onto DVD+R/RW
Authored by: JasonUK on Apr 08, '04 02:30:58PM

The reason for wanting to put iDVD projects on a DVD+R disc is for some DVD players that don't like DVD-R discs, or ones that DVD-Rs don't behave properly in. Although this is only a small percentage of DVD players, it may be handy to burn projects to a different format, especially if you are sending discs to a friend that has a Philips DVD player - who definitely prefer DVD+R/RW discs.
Getting a iDVD to record directly to an image, or using a DVD-RW would be a sensible idea also.



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DVD-RW
Authored by: derrickbass on Apr 09, '04 02:15:55AM
could you allow iDVD to burn on a DVD-RW disc instead of a DVD-R
I've never tried this personally, but supposedly iDVD can be made to record to DVD-RW (even though it doesn't want to). What you do is insert a DVD-R disk and click record. The actually recording doesn't happen immediately though; iDVD needs to do some encoding. During that time you can eject the DVD-R disk and put in a DVD-RW and iDVD is none the wiser.

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Burn iDVD Video projects onto DVD+R/RW
Authored by: macslut on Apr 08, '04 04:58:04PM

I agree with the previous, this isn't tip-worthy, or at the very least the subject should be changed. All the tip describes is how to duplicate a non-copy-protected DVD using Disk Utility. iDVD and +/- have nothing to do with it.

Think about people searching for this solution and entering the keywords in the subject, getting this result and being really disappointed.



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Burn iDVD Video projects onto DVD+R/RW
Authored by: Clean Sanchez on Apr 09, '04 05:25:07AM

Thanks for the excellent tip. I had wondered how or if it was possible to burn DVD+R as I wasn't sure that the disk images writing protocol was exactly the same as DVD-R. I presume the "drivers" for a dual format drive can sense the media type - DV+R and not DVD-R and adjust the very low level commands to move writ arms and heads or whatever is inside a disk drive. All this without iDVD needing to know exactly what it is writing to. And obviously copying to an external DVD+R drive is also supported. I had assumed until now that given that Superdrives are DVD-R and Apple software specs etc always point to DVD-R then Apple were solely in the DVD-R camp and deliberately didn't support DVD+R.

As a person with an Apple based DVD burning business you can't believe the number of times people, although forewarned, have complained that their newly burnt DVD-R disc doesn't work in their ancient or DVD+R drive! Time is money and, given the above logical assumptions I had thought that experimenting and ferreting around in the OS or looking for work arounds would be futile.

Now I have a very quick off the shelf solution using the iDVD consumer software - can delegate this task to an older computer too! Thanks again!



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