[MS]

I re-edited and created a new DVD master of my wedding, and I want to make a copy for my family. It took so long to create the first one (almost 3 hours), can I make a copy with Toast Titanium? It doesn't have any kind of copyright protection, so why wouldn't I be able to?
And would it be any faster?

Thanks,
MS

[starman]

No. The DVD, by design, is copy protected. If you want to make a copy of it, you have to use DVD Extrator from http://www.macdvd.org/lukifer/index.html which will make a Toast image of your DVD. Once you have the Toast image, burn THAT FILE to a DVD-R as a data file so that you always have something to work from if you want to make more copies.

Mike

[C.J. Moof]

Wrong.

The CSS will not keep him from duplicating his DVD. His DVD isn't copy-protected. Assuming it was authored by a SuperDrive, it can't be.

Starman's input is only accurate for commercially produced DVD's. The superdrive is a "DVD General" device, not a "DVD Authoring" device. To write a DVD with CSS encoding, you have to have a drive that can write DVD Authoring.

The SuperDrive isn't one.

This is by design, as it allows consumers to author DVDs that can be read in most players, but keeps us from making bit for bit images of commercial (DVD Authoring) releases.

Starman- you should do your
homework before speaking like an authority on the matter.

MS- it should work. Might as well try it.

(edit: wrote general, meant authoring)

[ 02-08-2002: Message edited by: C.J. Moof ]

[NeoMac]

That's nuts! Are you telling me that in iDVD you have to re-encode the iDVD content each time after you burn it?

That doesn't sound right. Once it encodes the first time (as long as you don't quit or load a new project) you should be able to burn over and over.

Or not?

[MS]

Neomac,
No, I don't think you have to reencode everytime, but unfortunately I created the DVD on a work computer, and had to delete all the files when I was done.
Now, I need another copy and would have to redo the whole DVD, so that's why I was wondering if I could use Toast to copy it.

Thanks for everyone's help.

MS

[elvisripley]

HEY!

Just use Disc Copy to make a disc image of the one you already have and use Disc Copy or Toast to make the duplicates. Making the disc image will take a while but burning the DVD shouldn't.

[Dan Szwarc]

I think this was mentioned on another forum...

Do the disk copy thing. As long as disk copy supports burning to DVds through the superdrive, you are all set.

And there is no copy protection on iDVD made DVDs. That's for professionals.