[MacDV] Re: DVD-RW media

[Steven Rogers]

On Monday, January 19, 2004, at 07:12 AM, Gerhard Kuhn wrote:

> 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.

Right - but the question was how to use the disks a 2nd time.

Use Disk Copy to erase the disk when you're done with it. Erasing is 
under the file menu.

> 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.)