by Mark L.Chambers CD & DVD Recording FOR DUMmIES ‰ 2ND EDITION [...]... Not for Food) 213 xv xvi CD & DVD Recording For Dummies, 2nd Edition Using HTML for Your Menus 214 Mentioning Animation 216 Project: Creating a Disc Menu with HTML .219 Project: Converting a Text Document to HTML 226 Chapter 13: Storing Megastuff with DVD 229 What’s Involved in Recording a DVD- R or DVD+ R? 230 The Heavy Stuff: Introducing DVD. .. new For Dummies book about CD and DVD recording? Because the challenge is still there! It has just shifted from “the art of successfully recording anything” to “the art of using your recorder to its full potential.” Today, a CD or DVD recorder can produce everything from superb-sounding audio CDs to DVDVideo discs that you can play in your home DVD player More applications than ever are available for. .. DVD- RAM 18 “Hey, can’t I buy just one drive?” 18 First on the block: CD- R 18 Reusable and loving it: CD- RW 19 Ready for stardom: DVD- R/W .20 Oh joy, what confusion: DVD+ R/W 20 The rewriteable warehouse: DVD- RAM 21 xii CD & DVD Recording For Dummies, 2nd Edition What’s Wrong with Tapes, Disks, and Removable Media? .21 More reliable 22 Higher capacity... Choice: Roxio’s Easy CD & DVD Creator 6 86 Formats and disc types out the wazoo .86 Wolfgang woulda loved this .87 Extra stuff they give you (without even asking) 88 Burning Up Your Macintosh with Roxio’s Toast 6 Titanium 91 Packet Writing Made Easy with Drag-to-Disc .93 Introducing the Editors: iMovie 3, iDVD, and Premiere 93 xiii xiv CD & DVD Recording For Dummies, 2nd Edition... computer’s performance, how to select the right recording software for the job, and how to select the right configuration settings for the type of disc that you want to record (settings like the format, the organization, and the file system) Part III: Hang On — Here We Go! Here’s where things get really good — you advance to recording typical audio CDs and data discs with Easy CD & DVD Creator 6 (for the... Recorded on CDs and DVDs? 12 It’s All in the Dye 14 Behind the Curtain: Inside CD- RW and DVD Drives 16 The motor .16 The laser stuff 17 The tray 17 The controls 17 The emergency hole 17 Love Those Discs: CD- R, CD- R/W, DVD- R/W, DVD+ R/W, and DVD- RAM 18 “Hey, can’t I buy just one drive?” 18 First on the block: CD- R ... Fossilized CD and DVD Drives 50 Buying Your Drive at the Maze o’ Wires Mall 51 Buying Your Drive on that Web Thing 52 Table of Contents Chapter 3: DVD Is the Cat’s Meow 53 “Do I Need DVD- R/W, DVD+ R/W, or DVD- RAM?” 54 “Hey — I Can’t Copy ‘Curse of the Mollusk People’!” .56 Weird, Wild DVD Format Stuff 56 DVD- V 57 DVD- A ... Photo Album .186 Recording that MTV Video 186 Project: Recording an Album to CD 187 Project: Recording a Bootable CD- ROM 190 Project: Recording a Mixed-Mode Disc 192 Project: Recording a CD Extra Disc 195 Project: Recording a Photo Disc 198 Project: Recording a DVD Movie Disc .205 Chapter 12: BAM! Add Menus to Your Discs! 211 Everything... 40 The ultimate safety net: Burnproof recording 40 Disc-at-Once: Funny name, important feature 41 Sorry, but It’s Time to Talk CD and DVD Formats .41 UDF/Packet writing 42 Video CD .42 CD Extra 43 Multisession /CD- ROM XA 43 Software You Just Gotta Have 44 A sharp-dressed disc 46 Slick recording add-ons 47 Tools to organize... Dummies books, I begin with the basics and lead you into advanced recording, with needed tips 2 CD & DVD Recording For Dummies, 2nd Edition and tricks added along the way I promise to stick to the English language, so you don’t need an engineer or a computer programmer handy to decode anything Like any For Dummies author, I get to be myself and use my sense of humor This book is not your typical dry, . Dummies, Scanners For Dummies, CD and DVD Recording For Dummies, Mac OS X Panther All-In-One Desk Reference For Dummies, PC All-In-One Desk Reference For Dummies, Mac OS X Panther: Top 100 Simplified Tips &. Those Discs: CD- R, CD- R/W, DVD- R/W, DVD+ R/W, and DVD- RAM 18 “Hey, can’t I buy just one drive?” 18 First on the block: CD- R 18 Reusable and loving it: CD- RW 19 Ready for stardom: DVD- R/W 20 Oh. L.Chambers CD & DVD Recording FOR DUMmIES ‰ 2ND EDITION