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| DATE | Feb 9, 2007 |
| TICKET | #333185 |
| STATUS | Closed |
| SUBJECT | How do I burn a DVD of a movie I own? |
| CAT | Computers, Operating Systems, Applications or Connected Devices |
| TYPE | Operating System Features, Bugs and Problems |
| DESC | Apple |
| DESC | 10.4.X (Tiger) |
| PLATFORM | Apple Macintosh (Intel) |
| MODEL | Apple iMac |
| PROC | High speed |
| RAM | 250 (?) |
| DRIVE | 1GB |
| NAME | Heidi |
| USERNAME | Lillian Trachse |
| TECHNICAL | Beginner |
| ISSUE | Just Started Looking |
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TICKET ARCHIVE -> How do I burn a DVD of a movie I own?
Lillian Trachse - Feb 9, 2007 - 2:16 pm
I can burn a CD, but I don't know how to burn copies of movies I own. What application do I start out in to burn a DVD? iDVD? iTunes? I'm a true beginner so I need step-by-step directions. The "help" site on my Mac isn't helping. Neither is "Mac OS X Tiger for Dummies." My Mac has the program to burn DVD inside, I'm not using anything external. Also, what type of blank DVD's should I buy? Any specific numbers I should look for? Thanks so much for your help!
stottm - Feb 10, 2007 - 9:07 am
http://www.mactheripper.org/ - rips DVD's to your hard disk even if they are copy-protected (does not work for all movies -- make a contribution to the authors they need to work a day job and cannot afford the time to work on this unless people pay them with donations).
http://www.roxio.com/enu/products/po.../overview.html - Handles all the special DVD burning and compression if you don't have a dual layer burner. There are free utilities to do all this but it's a major pain, just buy Popcorn and it's ridiculously easy.
If you need a DVD-RW-DL drive you can find Mac upgrade DVD drives here:
http://www.mcetech.com/index.html
http://www.roxio.com/enu/products/po.../overview.html - Handles all the special DVD burning and compression if you don't have a dual layer burner. There are free utilities to do all this but it's a major pain, just buy Popcorn and it's ridiculously easy.
If you need a DVD-RW-DL drive you can find Mac upgrade DVD drives here:
http://www.mcetech.com/index.html
stottm - Feb 10, 2007 - 9:09 am
iDVD is for your own home movies edited with iMovie. iDVD creates the DVD menus and organization it also burns the DVD disc. iMovie edits video clips.
There is another ripper called Handbrake which people have been using to rip movies to their video iPod. Or playing them on the computer so they don't have to carry a DVD and it compresses the video so it takes less disc space on the hard drive too.
http://handbrake.m0k.org/
There is another ripper called Handbrake which people have been using to rip movies to their video iPod. Or playing them on the computer so they don't have to carry a DVD and it compresses the video so it takes less disc space on the hard drive too.
http://handbrake.m0k.org/
stottm - Feb 10, 2007 - 10:16 am
DVD Media for Mac's:
- Typically, the SuperDrive is a Pioneer DVD-RW drive, newer ones are DVD-RW-DL (Dual Layer).
So you can use DVD-R and DVD-RW and DVD-R DL and DVD-RW DL. The Dual Layer discs are 8.5GB's and the DVD-R/RW discs are typically 4GB's. Most movies will not fit on 4GB but will fit on 8.5GB DL discs. You can still do it with 4GB discs but you need something to compress the video (loses quality a bit).
- Typically, the SuperDrive is a Pioneer DVD-RW drive, newer ones are DVD-RW-DL (Dual Layer).
So you can use DVD-R and DVD-RW and DVD-R DL and DVD-RW DL. The Dual Layer discs are 8.5GB's and the DVD-R/RW discs are typically 4GB's. Most movies will not fit on 4GB but will fit on 8.5GB DL discs. You can still do it with 4GB discs but you need something to compress the video (loses quality a bit).
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