[MacDV] Re: duplicate archived DVDs

[James Asherman]

On Wednesday, March 3, 2004, at 09:43  AM, Gordon B. Alley wrote:

> On Wed, 03 Mar 2004 10:40:36 +0100, Tim Shirey 
> <shirey at illustratedWORD.com> wrote:
>> I thought the easiest way to make multiple copies of my DVDs (I 
>> produced)
>> was to use the Apple Disk Copy utility to create a disc image (.dmg 
>> file) of
>> my master DVD and then drag those files (AUDIO_TS and VIDEO_TS 
>> folders) onto
>> the blank DVD for burning.
>> Doing it this way would also solves the problem of how to archive 
>> finished
>> projects without having to keep FCP files, iDVD menu files, audio 
>> clips,
>> multiple .mov files, etc. files on my HD.  I would only need a master 
>> DVD on
>> hand to make copies in the future.
>>
>> I'm running into a new problem.....
>> I open the .dmg file and drag the two folders (audio_ts, video_ts) 
>> from the
>> disc image to the blank DVD for burning.  The DVD burns fine.  I pop 
>> the
>> newly burned DVD into the Mac, the DVD player comes up but doesn't
>> automatically open the menu.  I need to manually open the VIDEO_TS 
>> folder to
>> start up the movie menu, etc..  What am I doing wrong?  Are there 
>> hidden
>> files that are not being copied over that are on the master DVD?  If 
>> so, I
>> thought the disc copy utility copied those as well.
>>
>> Any solutions?  I simply want to duplicate completed/archived DVDs.

The T-S folders need to  be inside another folder. That's it. Just make 
an empty folder, name it and put them in there. Drop that on Toast and 
you get a valid DVD.
JIm


>
> I've made good DVD copies using Apple Disc Copy (now Disk Utility) 
> without having to do anything with the folders on the discs. 
> Translating to DU nomenclature, IIRC I just do Images->New->Image from 
> (Select a Device)..., tell it you are creating a CD/DVD Master, and 
> let it create the image on a hard disk. Then use Images->Burn... for 
> each DVD copy I want to make.
>
> -- 
> Gordon Alley  <*>
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> <http://galley.home.texas.net>
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