Roxio Toast Does DVDs

Sat Jan 31 07:49:45 PST 2004

Roxio enables DVD burning by selecting Other from the cute row of icons and
choosing the appropriate DVD type. It requires a drive that can burn DVDs.

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On 1/31/04 05:32, "Mac Pro Audio List"
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>       Mac Pro Audio List Digest #620
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> 1) Re: DVD Audio?
>   by Wesley Griffin <wgriffin at fraktured.net>
> 2) Re: DVD Audio?
>   by Scott Jacob Loehr <scott at folkloehr.com>
> 3) Reason adapted and Pro Tools
>   by Phil <pinhitter at yahoo.com>
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> Message-Id: <21BC77FA-5349-11D8-94F7-000393D121BA at fraktured.net>
> From: Wesley Griffin <wgriffin at fraktured.net>
> Subject: Re: [MPA] DVD Audio?
> Date: Fri, 30 Jan 2004 12:24:17 -0500
> 
> On Jan 30, 2004, at 3:45 AM, Zane H. Healy wrote:
> 
>> Out of curiosity, is it possible to burn a DVD Audio disk on the Mac?
>> I don't see options for such things with Toast, though it looks like
>> A.Pack (it comes with DVDSP2 has an option for making the audio for a
>> DVD Audio disk.  In all honesty, I'm not even sure what makes a DVD
>> Audio disk, though I am aware there are two different formats.
> 
> I asked this question back in November, didn't get any replies. I
> haven't found any application for creating DVD-A discs on OS X. I've
> found 2 for windows: Minnetonka and Sonic (I think Sonic might have had
> some sort of DVD-A stuff on mac, but I can't find anything). The other
> issue is that even though Minnetonka has a $500 offering, most people
> recommend buying the big brother (Chrome I think) that's ~$5000.
> Sonic's pricing is around that point too.
> 
> I haven't looked in-depth at DVDSP, as I couldn't find anything
> informative on the webpage (I don't own it). Most DVD-Video apps simply
> do not do the MLP encoding that makes DVD-A worthwhile. Its
> frustrating, as you'd think *someone* would realize there's a huge
> market to capitalize on and write a DVD-A solution for the mac...
> 
> 
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> Message-Id: <a05210600bc40e84b9a1b@[4.12.197.243]>
> Date: Fri, 30 Jan 2004 23:13:50 -0600
> From: Scott Jacob Loehr <scott at folkloehr.com>
> Subject: Re: [MPA] DVD Audio?
> 
>> Out of curiosity, is it possible to burn a DVD Audio disk on the
>> Mac?  I don't see options for such things with Toast, though it
>> looks like A.Pack (it comes with DVDSP2 has an option for making the
>> audio for a DVD Audio disk.  In all honesty, I'm not even sure what
>> makes a DVD Audio disk, though I am aware there are two different
>> formats.
>> 
>> Zane
> 
> I've barely scratched the surface of looking into this
> subject, but I don't think there's anything reasonably priced that
> will do DVD-Audio authoring on the Mac.  I think the closest we can
> get is to do a surround 5.1 mix and press it as a DVD-R via DVDSP2.
> I've got DVDSP2, but I haven't made it that far into the program yet.
> Plus, I don't know if the consumer drives will accommodate us... I
> think we'll have to use an authoring drive with authoring media,
> especially if it's for replication.  That's back into the several
> thousands of dollars realm again, like the Minnetonka and Sonic stuff
> for the peecee.  Roxio's supposed to have the new Jam 6 for OSX and
> the G5 sometime this year (actually, they said last fall last fall,
> but last fall has fell)... it would be nice if Jam broke into
> DVD-Audio.  I don't think Toast will have any of the high-end
> features that we'll need.  If I have any pleasant suprises with
> DVDSP2, I'll post the details after celebrating ad pauseum.  And, of
> course, after making the rounds to my local audiophile stores to test
> the discs.
> 
> Scott Jacob Loehr
> 
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> Message-ID: <20040131082031.98221.qmail at web20809.mail.yahoo.com>
> Date: Sat, 31 Jan 2004 00:20:31 -0800 (PST)
> From: Phil <pinhitter at yahoo.com>
> Subject: [MPA] Reason adapted and Pro Tools
> 
> I recently got Reason to co-operate with Pro Tools in the sense of a
> slave/master relationship.
> The problems were in getting PT to record the audio that Reason was putting
> out. The source of the
> problem was me, since I am new to the PT world and have limited time to learn.
> After recording
> four tracks and feeling pretty good, I called it a day. The next day, I tried
> to load the file and
> PT crashed EVERY TIME I tried to launch it. I even tried to import the audio
> tracks into a new
> session. But it just did not sound right. I am using a powerbook Titanium with
> 10.3.2,
> 550Mhz,512Mb ram. I am thinking some program or file on my Powerbook is
> causing the problem. I
> would like to get some ideas before I try putting everything on my external
> firewire hard drive.
> With OS X, there are so many files that I am not sure about, that it seems
> like a questionable
> idea. Any others? Thanks in advance.
> 
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