I've had my Mac for a while and am becoming quite fluent in Tiger and Quicksilver.
But I have no idea which iLife app I am supposed to burn a data DVD with (for mp3 files)... I thought maybe iDVD but then it started asking me what aspect ratio I wanted, d'oh!
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hoolyproductions Notebook Evangelist
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Just right-click and select "New burn foler", then add whatever data you want to burn to that folder.
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hoolyproductions Notebook Evangelist
Thanks man, easy peasy
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hoolyproductions Notebook Evangelist
oh. not so easy peasy. I created the burn folder and inserted a blank dvd.
I get an error message that the disk needs to be at least 2GB in size. The DVD is 4.7Gb and I have tried three of them.
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Strange... do you have an entirely different brand or type of recordable DVD around that you can try?
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hoolyproductions Notebook Evangelist
No I don't and the ones I have are top quality always worked fine with my PC.
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masterchef341 The guy from The Notebook
you need toast to do any real burning, just as you need nero on a pc.
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I don't do much burning, so I just use Finder. Its simple and it works well if you just want to drag some files and burn it onto the CD/DVD.
I have the same suspicion as cash...do you have the base MacBook? The base MacBook cannot burn DVDs, just CDs. Anyways, I'd suggest you test out the drive; get rid of a lot of the folders you were planning to burn and try burning some folders into the CD. Make sure the drive works. -
masterchef341 The guy from The Notebook
obviously you should be able to burn a dvd without toast. if you want control over what type of cd / dvd (audio, video, data, mac, pc, both) that sort of thing- you need toast.
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masterchef341 The guy from The Notebook
oh, good point actually. i didn't even think of that.
well, dont buy toast then. -
hoolyproductions Notebook Evangelist
sorry, I've been away.
I have a MBP, 2.33Ghz. It should be more than capable of burning a DVD!
I gave up in the end and have not had time to experiment with it since. -
If you/ or anyone is interested in a lightweight simple cd/dvd burner, theres a nice bit of freeware called 'Burn'.
You can download it here http://burn-osx.sourceforge.net/
I found it on the mac os x open source page, its a really handy list of free apps to get you started http://www.opensourcemac.org/
Stupid question... how do I burn a data DVD?
Discussion in 'Apple and Mac OS X' started by hoolyproductions, Aug 14, 2007.