How to burn a DVD on a Mac?

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Monty

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How can I burn a video, that is 1GB onto a blank, DVD? I can burn it onto the disc fine, but I want to burn it onto the disc so that it plays as if the disk was a movie. I hope that makes sense. The way I have done it, was put the disk in, open it in finder, drag and drop the video onto the disk, then clicked burn. That put it on there, but it doesn't open the disk like it was a movie and start playing immediately, instead, I have to open the disk in finder, then double click on the video on the disk. Is there a way to get it like a movie DVD using software already on the Mac (I have a 13 inch Macbook Pro, the one just before the retina display came out), or do I have to download extra software??? Please help me!
 
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SilverTonguedDevil

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Here are the best options:

-- If your computer is not 2011 or later model, it came with iDVD (which happens to be discontinued now). Use it. iMovie is the app that came with your Mac for editing movies. Then it has an option to Export to iDVD, which has a Help menu, and if that doesn't answer all your questions, use support.apple.com for "iDVD menus" or whatever your question is about.

-- If your 2011 or later computer came with no iDVD, use DVDStyler. It is a free (not a demo / trial) open-source alternative to iDVD for Intel Macs. It has most of the same options as iDVD, but not as many cool themes.
 
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