Some questions about iDVD...

[dvdguy24]

Hi,

I have a few questions that I hope could be answered here...First, when I create a dvd - and burn it - does it leave video_ts folders anywhere? Or is that only when I create it as a "disc image"? The last burning software I had did both...so I want to make sure this isn't going on my hard drive somewhere where i'll never find it and will take up room...

Second, For the first few times I tried burning with a DVD-RW I would get errors after the burn saying that some errors occured - so I would play the dvd anyway and a little bit of the last movie that was on it still remains - yet if I use a regular DVD-R, it's fine - no problem. Is this a common problem with iDVD? I'm trying it again now - I erased the DVD-RW with Disc Utility so hopefully that was more effective than iDVD's erasing process...it was a Memorex DVD-RW just incase that matters - I know they aren't the best quality.

Third - if after the burn process I want to make another copy - does it have to go through the whole encoding process again? I know it doesn't if I hit "burn" again right afterwards, but I mean if I close out the program completely, and go back in - it's not saved anywhere? Like a video-ts folder where I can get it from and burn it from that?

Thanks!

[willrob]

I always go the disk image route. That way I have a compressed file I can store on an external drive and burn copies of later. Otherwise if you don't burn more copies when iDVD first multiplexes, it will have to do it all over again next time.

Of course you can take the disk you burned and using Disk Utility make a disk image of it and burn more copies that way. You could also simply copy the VIDEO_TS folder to your hard drive (it's not encrypted after all) and put it in a folder with an empty AUDIO_TS folder and burn that to another DVD, but you'd need Toast to do that.

[galactica]

most was answered already, but per the -rw media, i have found that iDVD doesnt seem to like any -rws

Not sure why, but to date i have also had same probs with rw dvds and idvd

[dvdguy24]

thanks for the help! yeah, iDVD accepts -RW's however, it doesn't erase them all the way, causing errors in the burn process - where I have half of my new project, and half of my old on the dvd. It's only erased one completely Once - I now use disc utility to erase them.