
Archiving, Encoding, and Burning
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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 from
that disc image on another computer, or
mount the image on your desktop and pre-
view 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 5.15).
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 from a disc image:
1. Launch Disk Utility (located in Applica-
tions > Utilities).
2.
Drag the disc image from the Finder to
the left-hand column (Figure 5.16); or,
choose Open from the Images menu.
3.
Select the disc image in Disk Utility and
click the Burn button.
4.
Insert a recordable disc.
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.
Figure 5.15 “Burn” a disc image to
your hard drive.
Figure 5.16 Drag a disc image to Disk Utility to burn its
contents to a DVD.
Saving as a Disc Image
Save as VIDEO_TS Folder
If you just want to test the quality of the
encoded material on the same machine,
choose Save as VIDEO_TS folder from
the File menu. This option does the same
work as creating a disc image, but the files
are just stored in a folder (and therefore
are not as transportable). Point DVD
Player at that folder to watch the “disc.”
Supplement for iMovie 09 and iDVD for Mac OS X: Visual QuickStart Guide by Jeff Carlson.
Copyright © 2009. Pearson Education, Inc. and Peachpit Press.
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