How Do I?> how do I copy DVDs using a Mac?

How do I copy DVDs using a Mac?

Answer

Use Toast Titanium™ in the Library's Media Studio.

Contents

Step-By-Step

  1. Prepare Files
    • Press the Eject button eject button on the keyboard to eject any discs in the iMac's slot loader.
    • Insert the DVD into the slot.
    • If DVD Player starts, press Mac Command and Q keys Apple Command and Q keys simultaneously to quit.
  2. Open Toast™
    • Start Toast by clicking the Toast icon Toast 7 icon in the dock at the bottom of the screen.
    • Click the Copy tab in the Toast window. The name of the DVD to be copied should appear in the Read From menu.
    • With Formats selected in the left hand tray, be sure that the CD/DVD Copy radio button is selected and the Fit-to-DVD video compression is selected if your file is too large to fit on one DVD.


    3. Toast 7 Master Copy Window

  3. Burn your DVD
    • To make multiple copies, click on the gear icon to the left of the eject button Record button and select Recorder Settings. In the window that appears, input the number of copies you’d like to make, then click OK .
    • Click Record. Toast will copy the contents of your original DVD. Depending on file size, this step may take several minutes or longer.
    • Remove your original DVD when it ejects.
    • Load your blank DVD-R when prompted. If you get a dialog box stating “You inserted a blank DVD. Choose what to do from the pop-up menu,” click Ignore to close the dialog box.
    • Eject your DVD when Toast completes writing and displays the dialog box stating “Your disc is ready.”
    • Close Toast: from the Toast Titanium menu, select Quit Toast Titanium. When prompted, click Don’t Save

Resources

Roxio Software Support (Toast Titanium)

Help

For additional information about coping DVDs with Toast, contact the HSL TEC Team at 924-5521 or hsltec@virginia.edu, or if you are in the library Ask Rover.

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