I have been shooting in RAW for a little less than a year now and I back up everything to an external hard drive. Just today when was trying to burn to some DVDs I realized that I can't burn RAW files (I am just using media center).
This is proabably such an easy question, but how do you burn your RAW files?

I'm not sure why you wouldn't be able to. Are you burning the disk through windows or through a third party program? I suppose a third party program might restrict what can be burned for some odd reason, but Windows has had cd burning capability right in the OS since XP. It should show up in windows explorer and allow you to drag/drop files onto it.

I may be wrong here...but maybe you are trying to burn an "image disk", instead of a "data disk". Basically, a DVD/CD burner can burn any type of file; it doesn't discriminate. You just have to 'tell it' what you're trying to burn. Hope that helps!

mac OS X has had cd/dvd burning built in for a longgg time... you can burn RAWs and any other file type with no problem.

Depends on what exactly you're trying to do.

I use Archive Creator, as it takes the folder of my original RAW files and will span them over multiple discs as the raw files from a wedding will take more than one DVD. If you want to drag and drop you have to do the splitting yourself.

But there shouldnt be any reason why you can't burn. You need to burn as a data disc.

It's been awhile since I burned disks under windows... always use my mac for it. I remember having to set something stupid like this... no idea why Microsoft can't get their act together and make it simple.

If they are data files, I'm not sure why they won't burn if you simply drag the files to the CD drive. Windows had a burn function built in...

I am just opening Media Center and creating a data DVD. It just stops loading and when I look into it there are no RAW files, just JPEG. This is the only way I have been burning DVDs. When I try to right click and send to DVD it says it has encoutered an error (that is how I burn CDs). I was thinking I need to use another program?
Thank you for the responses!

media center what? windows media center? thats your problem, it probably isn't even set up to recognize RAW files.... get a mac! or at the very least, a nice burning program.

I guess that is what I am asking. What programs are good and if that was my problem. I am checking out Archive Creator now - thanks

I use Nero Smart Start

I use Nero smart too.

I was going to bing up this very topic tonight :-) Guess I'm bumping it.....
I was wanting group input as well for an easy to use burn program that I can use to burn RAW and JPEG file for my own archiving as well as client discs. I'm using Windows XP Pro, and I can seem to burd CD R's fine, but NOT DVD's, even as data?!? WTF? I know, I know, if I had a Mac, drag and drop is probably seamlessly built in to the OS (and has been since OS 7.1).