DVD Discs.

[Ian Tucker]

Hi Simon,

When you have double clicked the "burn" button in iDVD you will be 
asked to insert a DVD-R disc.   Do this and then wait for the message 
"Preparing  ...."  to appear.   As soon as this message appears,  eject 
the DVD-R disc and load a DVD-RW disc .  The programme will then 
proceed to burn the new disc as normal.   I have a Pioneer DVD player 
attached to the TV and have no problems with it playing  DVD-RW discs.  
   The cheapest DVD-R's I have been able to locate in Australia are just 
under $A10 each so it is nice to have erasable media to practice upon 
or reuse after the content  no longer serves a purpose.

I mention here that I seem to be getting better results by letting the 
iDVD programme  carry out all encoding before I go to the "Burn" stage. 
   After you drag a movie into the iDVD window,  encoding takes place in 
the background and this progress can be observed by clicking onto the 
"themes" button and in turn, the "status" tab.   You will be able to 
observe the progress of the encoding and it will indicate when this is 
completed.   The process takes quite some time,  particularly if you 
have a movie that is heading towards the 1 hour mark.

You can carry out other processes  whilst encoding is taking place, but 
I recommend you leave the computer alone once you have pressed the 
"Burn" button (apart from swapping discs as outlined above).

Best wishes,
Ian Tucker