Saving as a Disc Image


Until iDVD 5, you needed to own a Mac with an Apple-supplied SuperDrive to burn iDVD projects. It wouldn't work with third-party external burners.

Now, that restriction is gone. However, there are still occasions when you want to save the project as a disc image, which effectively "burns" your project to the hard drive. For example, you may want to burn a DVD disc from that disc image on another computer, or mount the image on your desktop and preview the final project using the DVD Player application.

To save as a disc image:

1.

Instead of clicking the Burn button, choose Save As Disc Image from the File menu, or press Command-Shift-R (Figure 23.14).

Figure 23.14. "Burn" a disc image to your hard drive.


2.

Choose a location on your hard disk to save the disc image; make sure you have plenty of free space.

3.

Click the Save button. iDVD follows the same procedure as when it burns a disc.

To burn a DVD disc from a disc image:

1.

Launch Disk Utility (located in Applications > Utilities).

2.

Drag the disc image from the Finder to the left-hand column (Figure 23.15); or, choose Open from the Images menu.

Figure 23.15. Drag a disc image to Disk Utility to burn its contents to a DVD disc.


3.

Select the disc image in Disk Utility and click the Burn button.

4.

Insert a recordable disc (Figure 23.16).

Figure 23.16. After clicking the Burn button in Disk Utility, insert a blank DVD disc to start burning.


To play a disc image using DVD Player:

1.

Double-click the disc image to mount the disc as if it were a physical DVD.

2.

Launch the DVD Player application.




iMovie HD 6 & iDVD 6 for Mac OS X (Visual QuickStart Guide Series)
iMovie HD 6 and iDVD 6 for Mac OS X
ISBN: 0321423275
EAN: 2147483647
Year: 2004
Pages: 197
Authors: Jeff Carlson

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