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iDVD can easily help you make your own copies of movies.

Apple's iDVD system, like most of its iLife programs, is one application that makes it simple to burn movies also other media direct to DVDs, provided that is your Mac also has some DVD burner. If you have any registered DVD that you want to duplicate, there are a couple of ways that you can complete so with iDVD: You can generate a digital duplication of the film to load into the application or make one analog recording to the identical objective.

Difficulty: Moderate

Directions

Things You'll Need

DVD player Video capture card RCA composite cables Blank recordable DVD

Digital Duplication

1 Insert the unique DVD in the Mac's disc drive and look with the disc icon to appear on the desktop.

2 Click on the DVD icon to open it, then locate the main movie file from the Finder window that appears; it can be from a folder within the Finder, also it will be the largest file in size.

3 Drag the film file onto the desktop to instantly make some copy. This copy will be saved to the desktop. Eject the DVD by dragging it to the trash once the file remains copied.

4 Open up iDVD and select the "Magic iDVD" option.

7 Put in some recordable DVD into the drive also click on the pinwheel-like "Burn" button from the reduce right corner of the application.

Analog Recording

1 Connect any video catch card to the computer; you will need to use exclusive external card in any USB connection to your Mac.

2 Install the driver/application software by way of the software CD. The CD will afford the installation instructions.

4 Load your DVD from the player and change the player on.

5 Open the application with the movie catch card. Go to the Finder or tough drive and position it inside the Applications window and double click on it, subsequently appear for the DVD movie to appear in the application's screen.

6 Play the DVD movie and click on the seize card program's "Record" key to make an analog duplicate of the movie. It may be best to cease the recording with intervals of your selection and consequently resume, creating individual chapter files.

7 Conserve the movie as one MP4 or similar video file, whichever format the capture card uses. If you are creating chapters, you will need to save each file straight away following stopping the recording each time.

8 Open iDVD plus record/burn the movie/files to a DVD as described on Steps 4 through 7 in the Digital Duplication section above.

The digital choice might not work on commercial DVDs expected to copy defence.

References

Apple iLife Tutorials

Photo Credit a dvd-r disc picture from wayne ruston out of website ;

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