More than 90 minutes

[Gordon B. Alley]

On Thu, 4 Dec 2003 08:46:00 -0600, Michael Winter <winter at mac.com> wrote:
>
>On Dec 3, 2003, at 10:45 PM, Gordon B. Alley wrote:
>
>>  I used Toast 6 to create a DVD with 3 movies with a total running time
>>  of 91:09. It worked fine.
>
>How did you do that?
>
>>  You wrote that Toast 6 "balked" when you gave it the 93-minute
>>  content. Did it put up a message complaining that the movie was too
>>  long?
>
>It said there was not enough room on the disk.
>
>Maybe I'm missing a step. I selected the Video tab. In the options
>drawer I selected DVD-Video at the top, and in the lower "Options"
>section chose NTSC, High for Video Quality and checked the Create DVD
>Menu. I then drug (dragged?) my movie into the panel (an iMovie
>reference file), selected a frame for the button in the editing window,
>then clicked burn. After I got the message about there not being enough
>room I double checked to make sure I had selected DVD as the media type
>on the bottom-right (I had), then gave up on it for the time being.
>
>Any suggestions to get it to work are welcome.
>
>On another note, is it possible to get Toast to do the encoding without
>a blank DVD in the drive?
>
>-Mike

On Thu, 4 Dec 2003 09:14:32 -0800, Preston <Boardrider at aaaHawk.com> wrote:

>Instead of thinking DVD disk, think Hard Drive disk. Toast needs room
>on your internal HD to encode your project before it burns it to your
>Blank DVD media. Make more room on your HD or get an external FW
>drive. Just give your project plenty of space and you should be fine.
>
>-Preston

Check Preston's suggestion first.

If that's not it, try choosing Standard Quality instead of High. I 
don't recall which quality option I selected for my DVD.

Toast 6 will encode to an image file instead of a DVD. IIRC, after 
you have set everything up, select File->Save as Disc Image... 
instead of clicking the Burn button. It will create a mountable disc 
image file. After the file is created, you can use Toast's Copy mode 
to burn it to a DVD (I believe you can also use Disk Utility, but I 
didn't try that).

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