[MacDV] DVD-RW media

[Gerhard Kuhn]

You need to trick the Mac.  After the project has finished encoding and 
asks for a disk you put in a DVD-R disk then after it is verified eject 
it and replace it with a -RW disk.  There is no need to worry you have 
a fairly large amount of time during which to do the switch.  I used to 
do this regularly but with media cost well below $1 I no-longer  do it 
very often.  Less set-top players are compatible with -RW format than 
-R so if you are sending it as a preview for others to see you might 
get a call that they are unable to view your disk.

Gerhard Kuhn

On Jan 19, 2004, at 7:58 AM, Joyce Ranieri wrote:

> It was suggested to me a while back to do a "first run" with my DVD 
> projects on DVD-RW media. I've tried to do this, but once I've written 
> a project once, the computer doesn't seem to recognize the DVD as 
> writeable. Is there something special I need to do to make this work? 
> Will all Macs do DVD-RW? My computer is a 17"flat panel iMac, 1GHz, w/ 
> superdrive running Mac OS 10.3.2 and iDVD 3. (I just installed iDVD 4 
> but haven't had a chance to use it yet.)
>
> Joyce
>