Burn small video projects to CD-R

Mar 31, '05 09:34:00AM

Contributed by: dudemac

Maybe this is just obvious, but it never occurred to me until I needed to burn a DVD and didn't have my DVD burner with me. Now we all know that iDVD 5 will save an image file of your DVD project, and with Disk Utility, you can burn that to an external DVD writer, which is great if your Power Book, like mine, is lacking a SuperDrive.

Anyway, I needed to burn a slide show that I could use on a DVD player. I had already saved the image file and I was looking at the size of the image, and it was much less than 700mb. So I wondered what would happen if I tried to burn it to a regular CD-R Disc. In Disk Utility, I selected the image and then chos Burn Image from the Image menu. I put in the CD-R, and with no complaints, it burned a perfect slide show to a CD-R that plays in my DVD player. This will save me a lot of money when I make slide shows for the family -- no more wasting 4GB DVD-Rs for a 200MB slide show.

[robg adds: I don't believe all DVD players will play CD-Rs, so this trick may not work for your particular setup.]

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