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naquaada · 04-26-2008, 03:52 AM

Burning DVDs with Disk Utility

Burning DVD images is easy with Disk Utility. Select 'Burn' in the toolbar and select an image. It supports of course .dmg, .sparseimage, but also .iso, .bin and also .toast (not tested). RW-Disks could also be erased. Disk Utility always checks the burnt media.

Burning Files

File burning works with Disk Images. You create a disk image, put the files in and burn it. But I think that's only working with the Mac filesystem.
But now we come to the advantages of burning a Mac image. With .dmgs you can create very nice looking discs. At first, you can give the image an own disk icon. But there's more: Every window can have seperate background pictures! If you downloaded programs from the internet, there was often a background picture in the image.

My last project was rather complex. It contains three movies, the english versions, all Soundtracks (5 MP3s-CDs), 3 available Musicals and Specials including 18 additional movies. The additional movies were music videos from known songs lip-syncronisized with scenes cutted of the film, some are really amazing well made. I searched for every song the fitting CD-Cover from from Amazon and created an Icon (You only need FastIcns and Preview for this). Every folder has a different backgroundpic, the icons are in size and position individual fixed. It was a lot of work, but it was really fun. And I still have the .sparseimage, so if I want to make changes, I could do it every time. Tip: If you want to use more than one background pic, create at best a folder 'backgrounds' in the main directory and make it invisible when you're finished (use Path Finder or a similar program for this). See - it's possible to create great looking DVDs without needing much special software.

BTW: You also can rip a DVD to an read/write-image with Disk Utility. So it's easy possible to make modifications on it!