Mac Book Question?

[126coupe]

I made a slideshow on I photo on my Macbook, for my late father
For the life of me I cant figure out how to burn it to a cd/dvd.

Thanks in advance

[stomachmonkey]

iPhoto

[126coupe]

Thanks, but I get to #7 Burn dvd and my "burn" button will not highlight, every other option is highlighted, but not the "burn" button

Thanks in advance

[stomachmonkey]

Originally Posted by 126coupe

Thanks, but I get to #7 Burn dvd and my "burn" button will not highlight, every other option is highlighted, but not the "burn" button

Thanks in advance

Hmm, did you insert a blank dvd before you got to that point?

[silverc4s]

Wrong DVD? locked, wrong type, some other issue?

[126coupe]

So a CD-R is the wrong disc?

[silverc4s]

Depends on your drive type - I don't know squat abt MACs anymore, but all drives have specs. Try to find yours.
I know MAC owners hate to read instructions, I remember that much...

[stomachmonkey]

Originally Posted by 126coupe

So a CD-R is the wrong disc?

Get some DVD-R.

DVD+R has some additional recording capabilities that can lead to incompatible discs if you pick the wrong options or don't finalize the disc properly.

[126coupe]

Now my Mac is telling me I dont have superdrive?

[stomachmonkey]

Originally Posted by silverc4s

Depends on your drive type - I don't know squat abt MACs anymore, but all drives have specs. Try to find yours.
I know MAC owners hate to read instructions, I remember that much...

Macs come with SuperDrives. They read/write much everything.

CD's can be used in place of a DVD.

Was common to do when the resulting disc contained less than 700 MB of data and wasting a DVD was not desired.

But the resulting disc, VCD is not as compatible.

Considering the low cost of even name brand media there really is not reason to not use DVD media.

[stomachmonkey]

Originally Posted by 126coupe

Now my Mac is telling me I dont have superdrive?

How old is this machine?

What model?

Go under Apple Icon upper left/About this Mac then More Info in the pop up. Check Disc Burning field for specs.

Could be your drive is dying or toast.

[Jesset100]

You'll find what you're looking for here
Apple - iLife - Find out how to use iLife applications on the Mac.

[126coupe]

Originally Posted by stomachmonkey

How old is this machine?

What model?

Go under Apple Icon upper left/About this Mac then More Info in the pop up. Check Disc Burning field for specs.

Could be your drive is dying or toast.

MAT****A CD-RW CW-8221:

Firmware Revision: GA0J
Interconnect: ATAPI
Burn Support: Yes (Apple Shipped/Supported)
Cache: 2048 KB
Reads DVD: Yes
CD-Write: -R, -RW
Burn Underrun Protection CD: Yes
Write Strategies: CD-TAO, CD-SAO, CD-Raw
Media: No

[126coupe]

This Mac is 4 years old and burns, photos and Music just fine

[Gogar]

Some older MacBooks (including yours) do not have SuperDrive. I had the same one.

[stomachmonkey]

Yeah no SuperDrive in that

Sorry

You can pick up an external burner cheap or look for a SuperDrive to swap on there

[stomachmonkey]

Going out to run errands

When I'm back we'll see about creating a blank DVD image that you can mount and write to, then upload to my FTP and I'll burn and mail you the DVD

[126coupe]

Originally Posted by stomachmonkey

Going out to run errands

When I'm back we'll see about creating a blank DVD image that you can mount and write to, then upload to my FTP and I'll burn and mail you the DVD

That's really nice of you. I do plan on getting an external superdrive.

[stomachmonkey]

Hmm, does not look like the disc image will work.

The mount point that the system sees for it is not what iDVD is expecting.

Let me think on it a bit.

[stomachmonkey]

Are you running iDVD version 5 or 6?

They will let you burn to a disc image from the advanced menu