[Buck_W]

Did I hear Jobs say that the new version of iDVD will support external drives (i.e. other than Apple's internal Super Drive)?

[chabig]

Steve did not say they were supporting external burners. He said that Apple was officially supporting -R/+R/-RW/+RW.

Chris

[Buck_W]

Originally posted by chabig:
Steve did not say they were supporting external burners. He said that Apple was officially supporting -R/+R/-RW/+RW.

Chris

Thanks for the clarification. Maybe someone will come up with a work around like they did with the current iDVD. Or better still, maybe the current work around will continue to work.

[agaul]

What i'm interested in knowing is that with iDVD 5 you can now make a disk image of your dvd project. I wonder if we can get around the internal superdrive issue by first making a disk image and then burning that onto an external dvdrw. That would be interesting. If not, well I hope that the current workarounds will work too

[zappy]

Originally posted by agaul:
I wonder if we can get around the internal superdrive issue by first making a disk image and then burning that onto an external dvdrw.

The new iDVD site <http://www.apple.com/ilife/idvd/featureoverview.html> mentions "after all, they’ve [Disc Images] already been encoded, so you just have to drag the Image to a blank DVD".

This sounds like the Finder is able to burn that image to a blank disc. Does Finder burning support external burners?

I wounder if the image is burnable by Toast, which definitely is able to burn to external burners.

[TC]

Originally posted by zappy:
The new iDVD site <http://www.apple.com/ilife/idvd/featureoverview.html> mentions "after all, they’ve [Disc Images] already been encoded, so you just have to drag the Image to a blank DVD".

This sounds like the Finder is able to burn that image to a blank disc. Does Finder burning support external burners?

I wounder if the image is burnable by Toast, which definitely is able to burn to external burners.

You managed to pick out the least significant part of that paragraph. The rest says that you can save as a disk image:

iDVD even has a new option for those occasions when you’re between media (i.e., you haven’t made it to the store) or you’re authoring a DVD on a system without a SuperDrive. The solution? Save your project as a fully-encoded Disk Image. Not only can you burn finished projects to disc more quickly once you’re back at your SuperDrive-equipped system (after all, they’ve already been encoded, so you just have to drag the Image to a blank DVD), but Disk Images make great read-only archives.

So a definite Yes! You can use the new iDVD with external burners.

[Buck_W]

Originally posted by TC:
You managed to pick out the least significant part of that paragraph. The rest says that you can save as a disk image:



So a definite Yes! You can use the new iDVD with external burners.

Thanks for the great information! I apologize ahead of time if this is one of those "stupid questions," but I am simply not familiar with the terms... would you (or someone else) please explain what a disk image is and how it differs from saving your project as an Archived project?

Thank you

[Eug Wanker]

Originally posted by TC:


So a definite Yes! You can use the new iDVD with external burners.

You don't need to save to a disc image if you have an external drive. iDVD '05 works with external burners without the intermediate disc image step.

The only thing is you may have to install a profile (with PatchBurn) so that OS X will recognize the drive, but that's true too for iTunes, etc.



Note that my "Burn Disc" option isn't greyed out like yours, and I'm using a Cube with stock DVD-ROM drive, and an external Hitachi-LG GSA-4160B 16X dual-layer DVD+/-RW/RAM burner in a generic Firewire enclosure.