[G4] Copying DVD

[Eric Wood]

I'm not sure how you'd get cheaper than Apple's own Disk Utility, and as
for easier, you'd need some special hardware to make multiple copies,
right? Are you asking about copying many different discs or making
multiple copies of one disc?

Eric

On Thu, 2007-09-06 at 16:47 -0700, Earle Jones wrote:
> I had a big DVD to copy (the running time was two hours plus -- about  
> 4 GB).
> 
> I have System X 10.4.10 -- Intel iMac 1.8 GHz -- 2GB RAM -- 1 TB HD.
> 
> I tried Carbon Copy Cloner with no success -- after spending 25  
> minutes copying, I got a "failure to copy" error.  When I checked the  
> disks they would not open with 'DVD Player'.
> 
> I talked to a recently retired Apple friend who told me to use the  
> Mac 'Disk Utility'.
> 
> 1.  Insert the DVD to be copied.
> 2.  Use 'Disk Utility' ('New Image') to create a disk image.
> 3.  The name of the new disk image will appear in the 'Disk Utility'  
> list.
> 4.  Select it and click on 'Burn'.
> 5.  You will be prompted to insert a blank DVD disk.
> 6.  When it is ready, click on Burn.
> 
> For the 4GB DVD it took about 25 minutes to record the track and  
> about 6 minutes to verify.
> 
> I used HP Double Layer DVD+R 2.4x disks (at about $2.50 each!)
> The HP Single layer DVD-R 16x disks did not work as well (at $.36 each)
> 
> Since I needed ten copies, I spend just about all day doing all this.
> 
> Is there an easier (and cheaper) way?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> earle
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