[MacDV] Re: Copying iDVD to DVD via Toast 5

[Daniel Beck]

On Jan 20, 2004, at 5:30 AM, Steven Rogers wrote:

>
> On Monday, January 19, 2004, at 02:05 PM, Daniel Beck wrote:
>
>> What are the steps I need to take to copy one of my DVDs I made with 
>> iDVD3 to another DVD using Toast 5?
>
> Get Toast into "copy" mode by pushing the copy icon at the top, then 
> hit the "record" button. You put the original in, then give it the 
> blank when it wants it.  Its just that easy.  Its just about that easy 
> with Disk Copy.

OK, here's the whole story. Be patient all, as some of I have reported 
before.

Anyway, I edited wedding video in FCP3 on my 12" PowerBook 867 
w/SuperDrive. I exported the main sequence and a highlight version as 
stand alone FC movies. I then opened iDVD. At first it wouldn't let me 
choose the 90 minute option (nor the 60 for that matter). Then, when I 
tried a different time, it let me choose it. Go figure.

Anyway, I arrange things the way I wanted and tried to burn it to a 
cheapie brand DVD-R disk. I got error messages on a few attempts. One 
was "The recording device reported the media error: Power calibration 
area error" and the other (don't remember the exact words) was 
Peripheral Device Write Error (or something to that affect).  Now, in 
the past I had no trouble with these disks, nor with a brand named 
Radius (which also failed).

Well, I decided to see what would happen with Apple branded discs. I 
bought a pack, and sure enough, it burned fine. No problems. When iDVD 
asked if I wanted to burn another copy, I stuck in the cheapie again 
and got the same error as before.

Then, that's when I decided to see if skipping iDVD and copying via 
Toast would do the trick. But, sure enough, I got this error message:
"Illegal Request
Sense Code=0x30, 0x.05
Cannot Write Medium- Incompatible Format."

So, what I don't get is why I had no trouble in the past with these 
discs, and now can't seem to get them to work. I don't mind using the 
Apple discs, but I would like to use discs with Ink Jet printable 
surfaces. I don't feel write handing someone a DVD of their wedding 
with the title handwritten with a Sharpie.

Does anyone have a clue why these discs aren't working? Does the 60+ 
length have anything to do with it?

Daniel