DVD-R question

[YOyoYOhowsDAjello]

Ok, without my knowledge my school's art department decided to buy a brand new shinny imac. I've already expressed my disgust with them, but they think it's a great computer (I think it's just because they're comparing it to 15 or so 233 Mhz Pentiums that are in the photolab)

So anyway, they got the DVD burner version and I'm wondering if I need any special type of DVDs with it, I assume not, and if so, do these sound like a good deal for it?

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Does it really matter if I get generic DVDs for this thing?

Thanks ahead of time for the help, although I think it may be a long shot getting some first hand experience from someone with an imac here.

 

[darthmango]

One of the labs here at achool just got about 50 quicksilver g4's with superdrives, and since I figured nobody else would use them I should put them to good use. Copying a DVD is a long precess to figure out, and even then takes about 2 hours from start to finish. first thing is that the size of the entire disk has to be below 4.39 if you want to do a direct copy, in which case the only software you need is toast 5 and dvdextractor. if the movie itself is below the correct size then you can just rip the movie from the disk, and use DVD studio pro ($999) to make it into a readable format, then burn that in toast. OR if the movie is too big, you have to split it up, which i'm still trying to figure out how to do. I've spent probably 20 hours working on this, so if you have any questions but not software requests let me know.

 

[LethalWolfe]

You need to use General Use DVD-Rs. There are General Use, Master(?), and Data(?) DVD-Rs. As if we needed anymore confusion in regards to DVD media selection. I can't remember the difference between them all (it's late). But the only thing I can remember is if you wanted to burn a master DVD and take it someplace to duplicate/mass production DVDs then, for example, you'd have to have to use Mastering DVD-R media and use a DVD burner that supports Mastering (these Mastering burners are still around a grand or more so they aren't the ones that "normal" people are buying/have in their rigs now). But the General Use DVD is fine for everyone that isn't doing hi-end stuff. And if yer doing hi-end stuff you know you are doing hi-end stuff and you'd know the difference between formats and burners and I'm going to bed...


Lethal

 

[darthmango]

http://www.meritline.com/47dvdisgenpu.html
I just bout 10 disks from here, worked out to about 2.50 each shipped.
Master DVD-r's are for so called Authoring drives, they product the gold master disk for production. What you want is for General V2.0, but General will work ok.
Oh, and dont even bother with iDVD, it's completly useless for what you're trying to do.

 

[YOyoYOhowsDAjello]

Thanks a lot for the info guys, and the site darthmango.