Duplicating DVD’s On Mac OSX

Posted on January 11, 2007 
Filed Under Mac OSX, Tutorials, Video

I found myself facing an interesting question today regarding DVD duplication on Mac OSX (I’m using Tiger). I have created many DVD’s using iDVD but I had yet to need to do this.
Is there an easy way to duplicate an existing DVD on Mac OSX?

The short answer is yes. The best part of this is that everything you need to be able to do this is built right into Mac OSX.

The first thing you need to do is put the DVD you wish to duplicate into your drive. It will probably try to open and play the DVD so make sure you exit out of the DVD Player application.

Create A Local Image Of The DVD

Open up the Disk Utility application. This can be found in your Applications/Utilties folder.

When this first opens, you’ll see the DVD drive list on the left side. Select the appropriate DVD drive for the source list and click the “New Image” button.

Enter the file name for the image and select the location you want to save it to. For the settings, select the follow:

Click the Save button and it will create an image of the DVD on your local hard drive.

Burn The DVD Image

Now that you have an image of the DVD on your hard drive, you can create as many copies of this disc as you need.

You should see the disc image file (.cdr) listed on the left side of the Disk Utility application. Select the image you would like to burn and click the “Burn” button.

Insert a blank DVD disk into the drive and click the “Burn” button.

Comments

2 Responses to “Duplicating DVD’s On Mac OSX”

  1. Vicky on June 22nd, 2007 2:05 pm

    Thank you so much!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
    So simple, even a banker could figure it out!

  2. dan on February 11th, 2008 9:56 am

    I have a different twist: I tried this with Eric Clapton’s Crossroads Guitar Festival (II), for the sole purpose of ripping an audio CD from the soundtrack*, and Disk Utility program DENIED it (copying, that is; and I don’t have the exact message here, sorry). I thought it strange but,
    could the disk be protected in some way? (Typically they’re not, right?).
    *My intentions are solely honorable; I just the love the soundtrack, the guest artist’s versions of their covers (plus, of course, EC’s accompaniment, and I’d like to burn it to play at home and in my car. (Plus, no one foresees this coming out as a separate CD version because of all the b.s. licensing agreements that would have to be arbitrated ’til doomsday.)

    Can this be done on OX X Tiger? (iDVD, GarageBand, etc.?)

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