- Launch Toast Titanium 6 and choose Data/Advanced/ DVD-ROM (UDF).
- Make sure your Superdrive is shown at the bottom right of the screen and is burning to a DVD as opposed to CD.
- Click on the New Disk button in the bottom left hand corner and name the disk exactly as it was when you first put the original DVD disk into your DVD drive (all capital letters, numbers (if any) and underscores). This is a very important step.
- Then drag and drop the processed "VIDEO_TS" folder only that you made using DVD2OneX into the Toast Titanium 6 window, again it has to be that exact name for it to work.
- Then click record, insert your blank DVD±R(W) media and choose to burn at your desired speed.
Once finished you will have a DVD movie, which is a copy of your original and will play on most DVD players (make sure the media you use is compatible with your usual DVD player before you start). It will contain the opening sequences of the movie companies, like Paramounts stars spinning round the mountain or Warner Brothers pan across the studios, and then will cut straight into the movie. Enjoy!
Notes
To keep track of things make a folder for the movie named exactly as the DVD is when you first put it in and it is mounted on your desktop. This is meant for your own reference. Inside this folder make a further folder called "Ripped Movie" (or whatever you want). That way if you are doing several you will know where you are in the proceedings.
ALL THE FILES YOU SELECT MUST BE FROM THE SAME DVD. Do not mix files from different DVD disks.
The disc name and folders you burn onto DVD±R(W) must have the same disc name and folder names as the original disc.
The rule of thumb is that 30 minutes of movie will take up 1 Gb of disk space without undergoing any compression. Therefore, you can produce a perfect copy of a <2hr movie on a 4.7 Gb DVD disk. Movies longer than this will have to be compressed to fit onto a single sided DVD and quality will suffer as a result. However, you would be surprised at how good a compressed movie looks, to the point of finding it difficult to distinguish between the original and the copy.
Dumping and deleting large data blocks (as you will be if you want to record several DVD’s in a short space of time) is bad news for your Apple system and can rapidly cause severe fragmentation problems. For that reason I recommend either (i) partitioning 25-30Gb of HD space to use exclusively for DVD purposes (ii) use an external HD exclusively for DVD purposes or (iii) regularly run a disk tool on your HD to ensure everything is OK (which you should do anyway).
If the movie is black and white, it takes up far less space than if it were in glorious technicolor. Check the size of the DVD files once they are on your HDD. If they are less than 4.36Gb in total you can skip step 2 (processing them using DVD2OneX) and burn the files straight onto DVD±plusmn;R(W) using Toast Titanium.
If the movie makes use of foreign languages, be certain to select the appropriate subtitle options. For example, The Last Samurai, Ronin, Once Upon a Time in Mexico, Lord of the Rings are all mixed language movies and you will have to select a language subtitle option to appreciate what is being said in the foreign language. When you playback the movie, make sure subtitles are on. If you have chosen the correct subtitle set in DVD2OneX you will only see the subtitles for the relevant parts of the movie.
On the market now are dual layer DVD recorders and dual layer DVD media. As the use of this technology becomes more widespread, Step 2 will become more obsolete because you will be able to fit the movie, and all the extras, onto the dual layer media without the need for compression.
Version history
v1.0 - Initial version by jolisinge (2004-08-10)
v2.0 - edited areas to comply with new copyright law (2006-01-01)
