Making copy-able DVDs?

mtnmiller wrote on 6/22/2007, 2:18 PM
Hello,

Is there a particular way to render a DVD to make it easy to copy/duplicate for a third party? I made a video for a friend who wants ten copies of the DVD. I'd rather just send him one, and have him make the copies himself.

Also, how would he go about making copies, if I just send a master for him – Kinkos or something?

Thanks.

/The Sting-man, makin' copies (a'la SNL – sorry, couldn't resist)

Comments

ScottW wrote on 6/22/2007, 2:47 PM
If you can play it on a DVD Player, then it's pretty much as copyable as it's going to get.
Chienworks wrote on 6/22/2007, 3:35 PM
Unless you're using early releases of DVDA-2, you probably don't have any way to make a DVD that isn't copyable. And the fact that early releases of DVDA-2 made some uncopyable discs was a bug that was thankfully eradicated.

I dunno about Kinko's policies. There isn't one within reasonable driving distance of me so i've never been in one. However, i have a suspicion that any reasonably well-run shop is probably going to ask a lot of hard questions about the disc to make sure that the person asking for copies has the legal right to make the copies. I'm not saying he won't get them, but he may be grilled a bit first.

If he's got a DVD burner in his computer he can use the burning software that came with it to make copies, probably in 20 minutes or less each.
TGS wrote on 6/22/2007, 4:14 PM
If you're using Nero to burn, make a Data DVD of your TS video file and send that. Have him load it into a newly created file on his computer and then have Nero or another DVD burning program burn the Video TS. (You may want to include the audio TS just in case his burning program needs it too.)
Steve Mann wrote on 6/22/2007, 4:23 PM
"(You may want to include the audio TS just in case his burning program needs it too.)" Some players are also anal about having the audio_ts folder, even if its empty.
farss wrote on 6/22/2007, 4:30 PM
If you're using Nero, you really should be using it to make a DVD Video disk, not a Data disk. The later versions of Nero do warn you about this when you try to copy VOB files.

But apart from that if your client has a DVD burner in his PC and Nero then he can copy them himself.

Still cannot see why you wouldn't want to do this for the client.
Passing work back at the client just doesn't seem like a good business practice to me.

Bob.
riredale wrote on 6/22/2007, 7:15 PM
Ditto on Nero. Make a DVD-Video disk, and just do a disk copy at your end or at his end.

A DVD-Video disk is a different animal than a DVD data disk.