[X Newbies] DVD -1 or +1

[Joe Ellis]

----- Original Message -----
From: "Gretchen Hayman" <gretchen at sedl.org>
To: "Mac OS X Newbies" <X-Newbies at lists.themacintoshguy.com>
Sent: Friday, June 20, 2003 12:35 PM
Subject: Re: [X Newbies] DVD -1 or +1


>
> On Friday, Jun 20, 2003, at 11:07 US/Central, TheMacintoshLady wrote:
>
> > So DVD media should not be of the "rewritable" kind and I should get
> > discs marked DVD-R not DVD+R discs?
>
> If you have a "SuperDrive" as Apple calls them, then you have DVD-R/RW
> capability.
>
> > This means if my movie is only 150 MB
> > I can't then add to it  at a later time?
>
> Apple provided software (Disc Burner or Disk Copy) does not support
> multiple session burning of any kind; you have to get Toast for
> multiple session burning to CD-R/RW.  I don't know if Toast does
> multiple session DVD burning (DVD-R or DVD-RW) though.  Anyone??
>

Toast does multiple session burns to DVDs. Apple's iDVD only does single
burns AFAIK.

Joe Ellis