External DVD Drive Workflow

[Colione]

Hey Everyone,

I edit a lot of demo reels and I am looking to improve my workflow.

I often have to deliver 20-30 DVDs when the project is finished. As you can imagine, burning 25 DVDs on my one 4x DVD burner isn't so efficient. I hadn't realised that external DVD burners have become really cheap.

My question is: Is buying an external DVD burning going to increase my workflow?

Can I burn two DVDs at once (using disk utility maybe?)
Will burning two at once be too much strain on my system? (G5 single 1.8)


When I burn a DVD now, it takes up a lot of my computers resources, if I start doing other resource heavy tasks, on occasion the DVDs come out with errors.


Any info would be great!

I am also looking at the Lacie 16x DL external DVD burner. Any thoughts on that would be great!

Thanks.

[Demistate]

With DVD burning, Nero (if you have the correct license) allows you to span up to 99 burners. They can be spaned across different buses (Scsi, IDE, USB, Firewire) and can burn at different speeds.

Remember your system can only handle so many burners at once, but it's safe to say you could probablly stack 10 Firewire burners (They have to have two ports for in out slaving) without much problem.

Your cheapest solution is to buy this external case
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16817387019

and then this DVD burner
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16827152059

You're looking at about 70$ a drive. Firewire and chainable. And I would trust these NEC drives before I would trust any sony drive (which is what lacie puts in their exernal burners)