How to copy DVD

tunesmith1801 wrote on 7/14/2010, 6:03 AM

I make DVD's of events for our school. Parents call me during the year and ask for a DVD of an event. Most of the time this is a one or two kind of thing. What should I use to copy a DVD. I would rather not go back to DVD Arch. to do this, I would rather copy from the master DVD.

Our OS is Windows 7

Thanks - Jim

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rs170a wrote on 7/14/2010, 6:25 AM

I keep a master of all my finished DVDs on an external drive.
That way, when someone wants a copy, hook the drive up, open my burning software and make a copy.
Make an image of it with ImgBurn (it's free) if you don't have burning software.

Mike

PeterDuke wrote on 7/14/2010, 6:33 AM

Do you have any DVD burning software such as Nero? If not there is the well respected and free software Imgburn. Copy the whole DVD to a folder on your hard disk and then copy it back to the new DVD.

Watch that you burn it as a video disc and not a data disc. Some software allows both forms. (A video burnt as a data disc will play in a PC but not most standalone DVD players.) If you use the copy disc image function of the software it should automatically make the right kind of disc.

If you still have the data in place on your computer, it would be quicker to make another copy using DVDA. Otherwise copy as above.

musicvid10 wrote on 7/14/2010, 7:11 AM

DVD always prepares a full DVD folder on your hard drive. These are exact copies of your DVD. They are all there for burning by DVDA or ImgBurn, unless you have purposely delted them. Look in your Documents folder.

gpsmikey wrote on 7/14/2010, 8:04 AM

I sort of use the method rs170a says - I create an ISO from DVDA then create my copies (and master) from that. I keep the ISO on my hard drive. Anybody wants another copy, if you have imgburn (free!! ) installed, you can just RIGHT click the iso file of the DVD, select "burn with imgburn" from the menu and presto - another identical copy of the master !!

mikey

tunesmith1801 wrote on 7/14/2010, 5:07 PM

Can you create an ISO from DVDA? I made one from a DVD using imgburn .

Jim

tunesmith1801 wrote on 7/14/2010, 5:19 PM

I found the image writer in Burn Parameters, wow you learning something new everyday. I can't thank you enough for this, also thanks for the info on imgburn it works great. and this will save me a bunch of time.

Jim