[MacDV] Re: More than 90 minutes

[Brent Radbourne]

Toast 6 has no restrictions as to time only dvd capacity.  You can burn 
a 2 1/2 hour movie with toast as long as it's compressed to 4.4 gig.  
My problem was creating a dvd with idvd3 over 90 minutes.  I have many 
programs on tape that are 2 hours long and I want to save them to dvd 
in the usual dvd format without using 2 blanks.   Idvd3 is the only 
prgram that I know that will create the VIDEO_TS format.


On Friday, December 5, 2003, at 10:42  AM, Gordon B. Alley wrote:

> 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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