imovie 3 and VCD

[Gordon B. Alley]

On Sun, 2 Feb 2003 20:03:11 -0800, Thubten Kunga <Kunga at FutureMedia.org> wrote:
>Dear Daa and everyone else,
>I just did a total reinstall of 5.1.2 from the Toast Titanium CD-ROM,
>then the 5.1.4 updater and then the 5.2 updater. Result: Still fails to
>VCD Export to toast because of expired export file. Any thoughts on
>where the culprit may be located? Anybody please? I am BUMMED. : ^ (

It sounds like there is some file that's not getting replaced by the update.

I saved a message that I had posted describing the process I followed 
to correct the problem. Some steps may not be necessary. I don't 
recall where I posted this information, so apologies if I am 
repeating myself on this list (from the contents, it appears I may 
have posted it in the Roxio support forums). Here it is:

>I finally managed to create my VCD. For some of the other posters 
>who are still having problems, I'll describe what I did. I also note 
>some continuing perceived problems.
>
>* Trashed the following folders, packages, and files. I didn't 
>bother with any of the extensions, etc., for OS 9/Classic. I also 
>didn't trash any of the files named 
>"CSegmentedToastEncoding.strings" that I found buried deep in the 
>/System/Library/PrivateFrameworks -- I suspect these are just the 
>localization strings for numerous languages (I probably could have 
>trashed them). Here is what I trashed:
>--/Applications/Roxio Toast Titanium 5.2/
>--/Applications/iMovie/Contents/Plug-ins/Toast Video CD Export/
>--/Library/Application Support/Roxio/
>--/Library/QuickTime/Toast Video CD Support.qtx
>--~/Library/iMovie/Plug-ins/Toast Video CD Export/ [use Show Package 
>Contents on iMovie to get here]
>--~/Library/Preferences/com.roxio.Toast.plist
>* Ran the original Toast 5 Titanium installer from its CD (this 
>installer runs in Classic mode and installs the Classic version of 
>Toast). Since I was going to upgrade it to the OS X version, I 
>redirected the target folder to /Applications. This installer tries 
>to quit all other running applications, so most (all?) of my OS X 
>apps I normally leave running were terminated at this point.
>* Ran the Toast 5 application in Classic so I could personalize it 
>with my name and CD Key, then quit.
>* Ran a freshly-downloaded copy of the Toast 5.2 updater. 
>Previously, I had used the updater I downloaded months ago -- that 
>may have been the premature unauthorized release mentioned by the 
>Roxio poster).
>* Without logging out and back in (so all of my normally-running OS 
>X apps were still terminated), I ran the new Toast 5.2 (the Video CD 
>mode came up as the default, because that was where it was the last 
>time I had quit it).
>* I dragged the 12 GB .mov file I had created earlier from iMovie 
>into the window, accepted the Format: NTSC (29.97 fps), Image: Fit, 
>and Mode: Better options, specified the target .mpg file and 
>location, and it began the encoding process WITHOUT any expiration 
>notice. Hurray!

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Gordon Alley  <*>
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