I want to copy a video to my M2 Mac Mini and then burn more copies

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I want to copy a video to my M2 Mac Mini and then burn more copies

Apple A1379 USB External Superdrive DVD/CD Burner Player Model MD564ZM/A

For my parents 50th wedding anniversary gift in 1991, we made a video of mostly photos, as well as some video, with a lot of family history in it. My copy of the video was missing after a move, and I just got a replacement from s family member. I would like to copy it to my M2 Mac Mini and then burn more copies. What do I need to accomplish this? DVD player automatically opened when I inserted the disk but I see nothing in the menu that will copy and burn.

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Apple TV 4K, tvOS 15

Posted on May 20, 2023 12:39 PM

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Servant of Cats

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May 31, 2023 10:27 PM in response to Saundra Curry

I could be mistaken, but I think you just

Insert the home-made DVD-Video disc.
Quit out of DVD Player. It's going to show you the navigation menu on your home-made DVD, not a menu for making more copies.
Run Disk Utility (in the Applications / Utilities folder).
Use Disk Utility to create a disk image file on your Mac, from the contents of the home-made DVD-Video disc.
Use Disk Utility to burn that disk image to as many blank DVD-Video discs as you want.

I remember doing this years ago, after having created a home photo/video disc with iDVD, because it was MUCH faster to burn a copy from a disk image than to wait for iDVD to re-encode all of the photos and videos to create extra copies "from scratch."

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brbo

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May 21, 2023 12:17 AM in response to Saundra Curry

Hi Saundra Curry

welcome to the Apple (user-to-user) Community.

Re: video: "burn more copies. What do I need to accomplish this?"

Apple support have articles online (links below) that may help:

Eg:

Find out if the optical drive on your Mac can burn discs - Apple Support

If so:

Create a burn folder on Mac to hold files to burn to a CD or DVD – Apple Support

How to: Store information on CD and DVD discs on Mac - Apple Support

What to do: If you have trouble burning discs on Mac – Apple Support

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Apple USB Superdrive : User Guide:

https://manuals.info.apple.com/MANUALS/1000/MA1646/en_US/usb-superdrive_user-guide_zm.pdf

All the best :-)

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May 31, 2023 07:48 AM in response to Johnb-one

Thank you, John. I had Handbrake many years and operating systems ago. Completely forgot about it. I did get an earlier response from BDAqua to try Burn, so I downloaded it and I was able to copy it to my Mac Mini hard drive. I haven't had a chance yet to burn a DVD but will do so soon. It looked pretty easy...

However, I will now have Handbrake in my pocket, just in case!

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Johnb-one

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May 31, 2023 06:50 AM in response to Saundra Curry

Handbrake might be useful for getting the video off of the dvd?? Then as BDAqua mentioned, “Burn” will make it easy…,Handbrake is at http:// handbrake.fr

john b

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BDAqua

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May 21, 2023 10:13 AM in response to Saundra Curry

The Burn.app will make it easy...

https://burn-osx.sourceforge.io/Pages/English/home.html

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May 21, 2023 09:14 PM in response to brbo

Thank you, I will check out all the links.

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brbo

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May 21, 2023 10:11 PM in response to Saundra Curry

Thank you Saundra Curry, and for your kind and thoughtful reply.

Cheers :-)

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May 31, 2023 05:55 AM in response to BDAqua

I have downloaded the Burn app and successfully imported the DVD to my Mac Mini. Haven't had time yet to burn a copy but it looks pretty easy. Thank you so much!

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tbirdvet

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Jun 1, 2023 05:03 AM in response to Saundra Curry

I use Roxio Toast to make my home movies. Easy to use and has some background/title effects that can be used. You can pick the output resolution up to Blu-ray.

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Jun 1, 2023 06:18 AM in response to tbirdvet

Thank you! I'll give it a try.

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Jun 1, 2023 06:20 AM in response to Servant of Cats

Thank you! I never would have thought of that. I'll try it out!

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Jun 21, 2023 04:26 PM in response to tbirdvet

Thank you for this info. Looks like there are a lot of apps that would accomplish my mission!

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Jun 22, 2023 05:28 AM in response to Saundra Curry

Handbrake is also good to just rip the DVD and create copies that are usable on any computer or device with most any video app like iTunes or TV or on a Windows PC eliminating a need to use a DVD.

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