Optical disc authoring

flat and usually circular disc which encodes binary data, primarily used for physical data distribution and long-term archival

form of audio post-production

file system for CD-R and CD-ROM optical discs

computer file containing the contents and structure of a disk volume

overview about the optical disc recording modes

optical disc format

optical disc recording technology

the process of compiling content for publishing on optical discs

MagicISO (also referred to as MagicISO Maker) is a CD/DVD image shareware utility that can extract, edit, create, and burn disc image files. It offers the possibility of converting between ISO and CUE/BIN and their proprietary Universal Image Format disc image format.

set of required and optional files used for specifying the content of optical discs, including CDs and DVDs

thumb|right|DVHD disc showing its elasticity

Finalizing (also spelled finalising) an optical disc is the process of writing out support data such as DVD menus, directory data, and the like to an optical disc in order to make it playable on a system other than the one it was recorded on. As a general rule, finalization means that the disc cannot have any additional data written to it. It is the last step in the DVD authoring process.

history of optical recording