[MacDV] DVD-RW media

[Laine Lee]

My experience is that if the DVD-RW disk will stay in the drive without
being immediately ejected, then the Mac (and iDVD) will write to it. Here's
the way I've always handled iDVD with a rewritable. I set system prefs to
ask me what to do when I insert the disk. Then I insert the disk and choose
"Ignore" when prompted. Then I open iDVD and tell it to make a DVD. I'm
pretty sure that upon seeing the warning after issuing the burn command in
iDVD you could also simply cancel the burn command, put iDVD into the
background (by clicking the desktop, or Finder icon in the Dock) then insert
the DVD and choose "Ignore" when prompted, then go back to iDVD and issue
the burn command again.


> 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.)
> 
> Joyce
> 
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