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Recording Information on a DVD
If you have a SuperDrive, you can author your own digital movies on a blank DVD-R
(DVD-Recordable) disc. You can also record other kinds of digital data, such as backing
up files onto DVD-R discs. However, once you record information on a DVD-R disc, it cannot
be overwritten.
With applications like iDVD or DVD Studio Pro, you can create your own customized DVD,
burn it on a blank DVD-R disc, and play it on most standard DVD players.
When you are finished with an iDVD project, you can write it to a blank DVD-R disc.
1 Launch iDVD and open your completed DVD project.
2 Click the Burn button.
3 Insert a new blank DVD-R disc into the drive when prompted.
4 Click the Burn button again.
You can also record data on DVD-R discs with iDVD.
1 Insert a blank DVD-R disc in the drive.
2 In the dialog box that appears, enter a name for the disc and select the format you want to
create. An icon for the DVD appears on the desktop.
3 Drag files and folders to the icon.
4 Select the disc and drag the DVD icon to the Burn DVD icon in the Dock in Mac OS X.
For more information about how to use iDVD, see the online help for iDVD in the Help Center.