Some commonly used DVD protection encryption technologies that usually cause trouble when you want to back up your DVDs to hard drive are listed in the following:Ĭontent Scramble System (CSS): This system includes both player-host mutual authentication and data encryption, which is used to the content of DVDs from piracy and to enforce region-based viewing restrictions. In fact, almost all the DVDs movies and TV shows are armed with one or more copy protection schemes, which can protect these files from being copied directly. The reason is that the copyright of these DVDs is protected and they cannot be directly copied. While for commercial DVDs, you might find errors occur when you’re trying to copy them to hard drive on Windows or Mac. For DVDs without the protection of DRM and homemade DVDs, you can directly copy them to external hard drive directly for backup purpose since they don’t have copy protection. To see a video walkthrough of this process, check out our blog post.

Living outside the US? Need a PAL-formatted DVD? We recommend downloading the hi-res MP4 file and burning it with iDVD. Animoto DVDs make great gifts and party favors. That's it! Take the disc out, label it, and package it however you want. When it's done, your computer will play a sound and eject the disc. You should see a progress bar indicating the burn status. When the confirmation pops up, click 'Burn'. Once you choose the ISO file, click the 'Burn' button in the upper-left corner. (You might also check Downloads, as the file often ends up there). We recommend saving this file to your desktop so that it's easy to find. This will prompt you to find the ISO file that you downloaded from Animoto. Once opened, go to the File menu and choose 'Open Disk Image.' Start Disk Utility from your Application Folder (Note: DVD-RWs can't play on a normal DVD player.) PC user? Check out our instructions on how to burn a video to DVD on your PC.

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