Chapter 14. Burn the DVD

In Hollywood, shooting and editing a film is only the first half of the process. No matter how good the movie may be, without distribution it’s going to sit anonymous on a shelf.

Burn the DVD

You’re probably not aiming for a screening at the Sundance Film Festival, but currently your movie exists only on your hard disk. Now is the time to put that iDVD editing to work and burn your project to disc.

Before jumping in, I need to cover a few DVD basics.

Several flavors of blank DVDs are on the market, and iDVD 5 now supports them all: DVD-R, DVD+R, DVD+RW, and DVD-RW). The RW (rewriteable) variants are especially attractive because you can ...

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