With iDVD disks you can make a standard DVD. But you can't add 
anything to it like a folder of pictures or files. But suppose you do 
want to do that? Such as creating a DVD of family pictures and you 
want to put a folder of the original pictures on the disk plus, 
maybe, a family computer genealogical chart?

It can be done. But this requires having iDVD 5 and Toast 6 (or 
better). It can be done with iDVD 4 but it requires creating an 
actual DVD first

To do this create your iMovie and finish with it and open iDVD 5 as 
you normally would. Set up your front end with iDVD and finish up. At 
this point normally you'd burn the disk. But instead you would go 
menu Bar > File > Save as disk image.

Once you have your disk image, open it and drag the video_ts folder 
to the desktop. Open Toast, click on the data icon, and from the menu 
at left, choose "DVD-ROM (UDF). Then drag the video_ts folder into 
Toast along with any other files and folders you want on the disk. 
Then burn

If you have iDVD 4, you have to actually burn the disk to get your 
video_ts folder. For district use, we do have the upgrade available 
to any OS X user to iDVD 5

Once you're done, when you insert the DVD, it will play as a DVD 
should. But if you're playing it on a computer, you quit out of the 
DVD player and you can look at the contents of the disk.

Does this work? You bet! I did create what I described in the first 
paragraph. I am going to give this to my kids and my nephews and to 
my grand-niece (her father actually since she's only 3).

As for how much you can put on a disk. Standard DVD is about 4GB, 
dual-layer is about 8GB. And the newest Macs with superdrives are 
dual-layer burners
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Dale Bottrell
Mesa Public Schools
Computer Repair Technician
Plan for the worst, work for the best

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