[MacDV] Re: VCD Help

[Thubten Kunga]

Just off the phone with Roxio Tech Support. This Export to Toast 5.2 
for VCD burning is broken in iMovie 3. They are working on a Toast 5 
Titanium update that will restore that capability to iMovie 3. No time 
frame on when that update will be published. Look for your Roxio 
newsletter notification when then do. If you are not already subscribed 
to it, you can do that at the Roxio site as part of your product 
registration. http://www.roxio.com

I guess we can do it the manual way that Mike also told us about. I'll 
put that below here.

I also wonder if we may be able to import a finished iMovie 3 video 
into iMovie 2.1.2 and then do the VCD Export that way? Which would be 
faster and higher quality? Any way to adjust the compression ratio? 
Different compression algorithms? Is this the purview of Media Cleaner 
only?

Kunga

On Tuesday, January 21, 2003, at 12:31  PM US/Pacific, Michael Winter 
wrote:

Problems like this have been fixed in the past (for me anyway) by 
making sure everything is current. That includes Toast, iMovie, 
QuickTime, and the OS. My current setup is :

Toast Titanium 5.2
iMovie 2.1.2
QuickTime 6.1
Mac OS X 10.2.3

If you still can't get it to work, try exporting as a Quicktime movie 
using full, uncompressed resolution (don't remember what its called and 
it will take a lot of drive space). You should then be able to drag 
that file onto Toast Titanium and it will do the conversion then 
instead. See <http://www.roxio.com/en/interest/video/vidcapmac.jhtml> 
and scroll down to the "Automatic MPEG Encoding" section.

Some of the other pages at 
<http://www.roxio.com/en/interest/video/index.jhtml> may also be of 
interest..

-Mike

On Tuesday, January 21, 2003, at 09:49  AM, Michael Winter wrote:

> On Monday, January 20, 2003, at 12:24  PM, Eric Phillips wrote:
>
>> I am new to making VCDs and have been reading archives until my head 
>> spins. Let me know if I have this information correct. I edit my 
>> movie in iMovie, use QT Pro to compress it and then use Toast to burn 
>> the VCD.
>
> You don't need QT Pro. Assuming Toast has been installed properly (see 
> below) the procedure is:
>
> Edit movie in iMovie
>
> Select "Export" from the file menu. In the window select "To 
> QuickTime" for the Export Option and either "Toast Video CD (NTSC)" or 
> "Toast Video CD (PAL)" for Formats. Then click the "Export" button at 
> the bottom, give it a file name, and go take a long break.
>
> When its done exporting it will start Toast automatically (this 
> setting can be changed) and you just have to give the CD a name, click 
> "Burn" and install a blank CD.
>
> It may be obvious, but the "Toast Video CD..." options are only 
> available if Toast is installed properly. I had some trouble in the OS 
> 9/X transition getting the right files in the right place. If you have 
> trouble, let me know and I'll try to figure out what file needs to be 
> where. I should maybe also say IIRC, that the VCD export option is 
> only available on the full version of Toast, not the Toast Lite 
> shipped with many burners.
>
> -Mike