Burning dvds with a Macbook Air M1

[Glenn12]

What software would you suggest I use so I can burn DVD's on a new Macbook Air with the M1 chip? It's set up with Monterey. We've picked up an Apple Super Drive and the USB adapter to connect the drive to the computer.

The old iDVD was great...sad that Apple has dropped it.

 

[pm-r]

Apple Super Drive and the USB adapter

What software would you suggest I use so I can burn DVD's on a new Macbook Air with the M1 chip?

Personally I don't know if it would work on that machine, I don't have one too try, but I would sure give it a try with the free Burn Application:

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It seems it has been updated fairly recently.


- Patrick
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[chscag]

I second what Patrick suggested. The open source free "Burn" program should work. However, if you're trying to setup menus and so forth, you will need something more sophisticated. It is a shame that Apple has not updated iDVD to 64 bit.

 

[MightyGem]

It is a shame that Apple has not updated iDVD to 64 bit.

Yes. Nothing else comes close in terms of design and menus.

 

[Slydude]

I second what Patrick suggested. The open source free "Burn" program should work. However, if you're trying to setup menus and so forth, you will need something more sophisticated. It is a shame that Apple has not updated iDVD to 64 bit.

iDVD was always a little flaky for me. I used to build the menus in iDVD, create a disc image, and use either Burn or Toast tp com[plete the burn Sometimes, even that did not work with iDVD crashing before the disc image was created.

I finally started using Toast Titanium for the entire process. I haven't used Toast Titanium in quite a while, but it used to have the ability to create some DVD menus. The results weren't as stunning as iDVD, but they were useful.

 

[pm-r]

Yes. Nothing else comes close in terms of design and menus.

I see their mayby some competition that should work with the latest Macs:

App requirements
Intel 64
macOS 10.12.0 or later

Cisdem DVD Burner.app overview
Cisdem DVD Burner is great DVD-burning software with more functionality but fewer steps to master than iDVD. It can burn any videos to DVD with subtitles/menu and background music and also provides an array of DVD menu templates to suite all your occasions. With its editing functions, you can crop, rotate, trim, remove letterboxing, and add special effects or watermarks, and then easily burn your high-quality personal DVD.

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Not free however... But does a fair bit more if one needs it... But I have never used it...

- Patrick
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[MightyGem]

iDVD was always a little flaky for me. I used to build the menus in iDVD, create a disc image, and use either Burn or Toast tp com[plete the burn Sometimes, even that did not work with iDVD crashing before the disc image was created.

Yes, I had a lot of trouble with "multiplexing errors" at one stage. Solved it by de-selecting the background encoding option, but I still tended to save as a disc image and then burned via Disk Utility(until Apple removed that option).