ISO or Volume?

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Hello all,

I have a question I hope someone can help with. I have created my movie and I am ready to burn it to DVD. I used TMPGE to convert the movies to DVD format and used Sonic DVDit to create the menus etc. My questions is in regards on the best way to burn multiple copies of this movie.

In DVDit there are three options to burn the DVD

From Current project
From Volume
From Image

My questions is what is the fastest was to burn the dvds, since I will be creating alot of copied of this movie (home videos that I am ditributing to family)

I realize that burning from the project is prolly the longest because the video needs to be coded to DVD format? So I am wondering, which is faster, burning from an Image or creating the Volumes and burning them that way?

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Well, you already created your menus with DVDit. From current project I would assume that DVDit would only convert the menu files to mpeg dvd files as you have already converted the movies to dvd format with TMPG. Now it can be the fastest way, but I doubt very much it is the best way. I think the best way is to create (not to burn) the volume within DVDit (now I don' know if DVDit can output to volume) and to burn the volume multiple times with Imgburn2 would be the best. Anyway you should (I would) burn the first on DVD+-RW and test in a DVD player to be sure...

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What I have done so far is created a an image of the DVD and I am currently burning that image to disk. DVDit will output the volumes to a folder. I was just wonder if burning the volumes takes as much time as burnig the iso? or are they the same

I have burned a couple of copied using the iso and it plays fine in my DVD player.

That brings up another questions, when burning DVDs to distribute, which should I burn to DVD+R or DVD-R, I think I remember seeing someplace that DVD-R is more compatable in players then +R

[Abond]

The thing is that what I don't know I doubt it
There is something what I didn't know about DVD burning and it was that the burning application should take care when creating the ISO image to separate the ifo's and corresponding .bup's in different sectors of the disc. I know for sure Imgburn make this when burning from folder (volume). But if the ISO is created so that these both files are in one sector of the disc, Imgburn will burn it as it was created. Now I do not know how DVDit creates the ISOs - so I doubt
About the + - issue - well, I don't know. WSith the players no more than 5 years old I don't think it matters (well, maybe I am too optimistic in this relation)