[MacDV] Disk image

[Gordon Alley]

To copy an existing unprotected video DVD with Apple's Disk Utility,
follow these steps:

- Mount the original DVD on your desktop (quit the DVD player program
if it starts up).
- In Disk Utility (it's in the Applications/Utilities folder), select
the DVD disc you just mounted.
- Select File->New->Disk Image from [name of your DVD volume].
- In the dialog that opens up, select a name and location for the
image file. IMPORTANT: before clicking Save, select DVD/CD Master from
the Image Format popup, and leave the Encryption popup set to None.
- Click Save and wait for the image to be created.
- Unmount the original DVD.
- If the new image doesn't appear in the lower left pane in DU, select
File->Open Disk Image... and open the image file you just created (it
should have a .cdr extension). This will mount the image as a disc,
and add it's name to the lower left pane. If the image's Finder disc
window opens, you can just close the window.
- Select the name of the image file (not the mounted volume icon) in
the lower left pane of DU. You should see the Burn toolbar icon become
selectable. Click on it (or select Images->Burn...) to burn a new DVD.

Gordon

On 11/1/06, Robert Green <greenrw at shaw.ca> wrote:
> I am running OS 10.4.7. I made a movie in imovie and burned it to a
> dvd with idvd. This disk works fine when played on the computer or
> dvd player. I no longer have the original movie and want to make a
> copy. I tried disk utility which made a disk image. First it creates
> a download manager folder which when opened should give me the movie
> but all I see are the Video ts and audio ts folders. What am I doing
> wrong.

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Gordon B. Alley
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