How to Make Copies of no-Copyright protected DVDs on Leopard?

Here is the process for making DVD copies from any DVDs that are not Copyright protected using the Mac's Disk Utility application. This article has 2 sections and covers Leopard, Tiger.

  1. How to Make Copies of DVDs on Leopard?
  2. How to Make Copies of DVDs on Tiger?

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How to Make Copies of DVDs on Leopard?

First , copy the information from the DVD to hard drive and eject the original DVD. When we copy the original DVD, we will make a 'disc image' (.dmg) of it on our hard drive. It is an exact and perfect clone of the original.

Then insert a blank DVD and burn the DVD disc image to the blank DVD.

  1. Place the DVD that you want to copy. That will launch the Apple DVD Player. Quit the DVD Player, you will see the DVD icon mounted on your desktop.
  2. Open Disk Utility. First, select the actual DVD, not the DVD drive, from the column list on the left. Then click on the 'New Image' icon at the top of the Disk Utility interface.
    burn the DVD disc image to the blank DVD
  3. In the ensuing 'Save As' box, enter the name of your new DVD and select a destination. Remember that DVDs can run over 4 gigs, so be sure that the hard drive you are Saving the DVD disk image to, has enough space. In the 'Image Format' drop-down menu, select DVD/CD master. Leave 'Encryption' set to none. Click Save. Then you will get a .cdr suffix and not a .dmg suffix.
    Make Copies of no-Copyright protected DVDs on Mac OS X
  4. You will be presented with a progress bar.
    Make Copies of no-Copyright protected DVDs on Mac OS X
  5. When the copying process has finished you will see a new item in the column list on the left of Disk Utility window, "THE_MAKING_OF_A_FLOAT.cdr". This is your new DVD disk image (shown below, left). The new DVD's disk image icon is also mounted on the desktop (below center). You can now eject the original DVD from your Mac.
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  6. Select your DVD disk image (.cdr) from column list on the left of the Disk Utility window and click on the Burn button at the top of the window or select Burn Disc from the File Menu. The Burn window will drop down, select a burner (if you have more than one). Then, after inserting a blank DVD, select the burn speed and 'Verify burned data'. Click the Burn button bottom right of the Burn window.
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    Upon completion you will receive a 'Burned Successfully' box.
    Burned Successfully
  7. Done. You can save the .cdr (.dmg) file to make additional burns at a later date.