I use an external DVD burner on Firewire because my iMac's Superdrive is broken. How do I direct iDVD to burn to the external drive, since it wants to default to the broken Superdrive? I can direct iTunes to burn to the external drive just fine, but I haven't figured out how to manipulate iDVD to do it. No answers contained in iDVD Help. Any assistance? thanks--Pete
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iDVD--how to burn to an external DVD drive?
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I'm not set up to test this right now, but... I only burn to an external, I always burn to disc image because I usually save them that way. Once I have the image I put a blank disc into my external and select open in disc utility. then drag the image to disc utility and burn.
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My previous post doesn't use iDVD for burning, only to create a disc image which is later burned.
I am now at my desk and have my external Lacie DL with light scribe hooked up. I opened iDVD and opened an old project. I clicked on burn and the message "Choose a DVD Recording Device" "You computer have more that one drive capable of burning DVDs" came up. I select the external and it burns.
I am now at my desk and have my external Lacie DL with light scribe hooked up. I opened iDVD and opened an old project. I clicked on burn and the message "Choose a DVD Recording Device" "You computer have more that one drive capable of burning DVDs" came up. I select the external and it burns.
Great idea. I tried your advice, but no luck--I don't get an option to "choose a device", I'm only ordered to insert a DVD into my Superdrive (which is misaligned and grinds grooves into disks). With iTunes I can burn on my external Lacie because iTunes has an option to pick the default drive. Hmmm... BTW, I'm using iDVD 4.0.1 and OS 10.4.10.
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I just looked again at iDVD. You can click "file" then "save as disc image..." Then you could use the disc utility to burn the disc. That way you are not using the burn disc button on iDVD.
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