How to Copy Previously Burned DVD Disks
One of the problems with burning your personal video footage to a DVD disk is that it can be difficult to work with your content once it has been burned to DVD. There is no good (easy) way to rip a digital copy to your hard drive from the DVD disk for editing, and even if you just want to make a duplicate copy of the entire disk for backup, figuring out how to do it is not very straightforward.
Say for example that you create some digital footage with your MiniDV camera of your children playing. You then burn the video to a DVD disk using a computer driven DVD recorder, or with one of the new DVD-R recorders from Panasonic and others. You then decide you would like to make a backup copy of your DVD, or you want to send a copy of your video on DVD to your closest relatives. Unfortunately, there is no really easy way to accomplish the task.
Google to the rescue. Here is a page and here is another page that gives instructions for duplicating a DVD created with Apple's iMovie and iDVD, but the same procedure worked with a DVD I had created with my Panasonic DVD recorder (personal footage recorded from an old VHS tape that I needed to duplicate on DVD so my Dad could have a copy).
The author cautions that this procedure should only be used for material where you are the copyright holder. The last thing we all need is a regulatory crackdown that makes even this procedure for duplicating a DVD impossible.
Here is a summary of the procedure:
"Follow these steps in Mac OS X to make a duplicate of a DVD-R Video disc you previously made with iDVD and no longer have the original source material to burn the disc again in iDVD.
1. Insert the DVD-R Video disc that you created with iDVD into the SuperDrive.
2. Open the Disk Copy application (/Applications/Utilities).
3. Choose New Image from Device from the Image menu.
4. Select the disc you want to copy then click Image. You may need to click the disclosure triangle next to the disc to see the DVD-R Video disc you want to copy (See Figure 1). Note: With a single hard drive, the SuperDrive will appear as Disk1.
5. Type a file name and then choose DVD/CD Master from the Image Format pop-up menu.
6. After the image has been created, choose Burn Image from the Image menu (Mac OS X 10.1) or File menu (Mac OS X 10.2).
7. Select the image you just created and when prompted, insert a blank DVD-R disc.
Note: This procedure will only work with discs originally created with iDVD. It will not work with copy protected DVD-Video discs. iDVD and Disk Copy are licensed for reproduction of non-copyrighted materials or materials you are legally permitted to reproduce." 2:23:49 AM  Google It!
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