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burn speed?
I use a powerbook G4, with superdrive bought late 2002 (matushi or whatever makes the dvd drive- can’t remember the spelling)…and I use a G5 1.8 at work (SONY DVD RW DW-U10A drive).
Question is, I’ve just bought some blank sony dvd’s which say from 1x to 16x on them, that’s fine, but in my settings in iTunes, do I set it to maximum possible or to 1x or 2x to be safe for the hardware’s sake? Or does maximum possible just mean max poss that the hardware will allow? I’ve read through the apple link that is sometimes posted here re: updating the firmware for a drive if needed, I don’t think I need to, but didn’t know what I should set my burn setting to in itunes, and why is iTunes where we set this?
Thanks much
KB -
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Burn speed set in iTunes will only affect CDs that you burn from iTunes I believe. If you are burning a disc from the Finder or any other app, you will either be prompted for the burn speed, or you can select one in the Preferences for that app.
Letting it burn at maximum possible usually works out fine, though as my drive has gotten older I can now only burn CDs at the slow speed. Burning at max results in errors.
Also, if you are going to be duplicating the disc you might be safer with a slower speed as there are less chances of having errors on the disc. The disc may even play fine, but when you go to duplicate or replicate it any errors will cause you a problem.
-Todd Beabout
Vazda Studios -
Sounds good – so if after I’ve exported from FCP 5/compressor 2 into an mpeg 2 and then author and burn a DVD from DVD SP 4 what settings will that program use, I thought it used the setting from itunes and I’ve never seen a prompt window when I burn in DVD SP? Where do we set the rate when using dvd sp?
Thanks
KB
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You would set that in your preferences for DVDSP. If you look for it you will probably find it. Unless you are duplicating it though, you can probably leave it on max possible. I believe that is what DVDSP will default to.
-Todd Beabout
Vazda Studios -
appreciate the help – looking at my DVD SP 2, there is no preference for burn speed, (maybe it is there on DVD SP 4? Will check when I get home). So the max possible refers to the disc capability or the hardware capability?
kb
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It refers to the hardware capability. Come to think of it I don’t know if DVDSP has that preference at all, even in version 4. We have an older G4 that we use for DVD authoring and the drive is old it. I believe we have to Build/Format from DVDSP, then burn the disc from the Finder, where we do have the slow-speed option. That may be the way you need to go.
-Todd Beabout
Vazda Studios -
Thanks for your time on this.
KB
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You might want to do a search on this forum about burn speeds…couple things. First it is almost unanimous that you should do an advance Build and build the VideoTS and AudioTS to the hard drive and use Toast (where you have full control of the burn speed etc). Also burning at 2x or 1x is recommended for a master disc, or a client copy where you require the least chance of errors.
Rich Rubasch
Tilt Media -
Toast is a great tool to have, esp. version 7. You have full control over everything, like burn speeds, etc. Best of all, to me anyway, you can now archive over multiple discs. Say, for instance, you were backing up your precious FCS install discs. Well, unless you’re burning to dual layer discs, how can you back them up? Now, in Toast, you can divide it up over multiple discs, then rejoin them later.
Toast is worth every penny, for sure, IMO.
G5 Dual 2.7 GHz
2 GB RAM
OS 10.4.6
FCP 5.0.4
QT 7.0.4
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