[MacDV] Re: VCD Help

[Thubten Kunga]

My problem was a bad G4 processor. I put the old G3 back in the B&W and 
the Export to VCD and auto Toast 5.2 launch worked perfectly the first 
try. Burned to eh 105 @ 16x in a matter of seconds.

I just installed Toast 5.1.2 into a friend's iMac and the iMovie 2.1.2 
VCD burn routine is a part of the end of that install. I got a prompt 
as to which iMovie I wanted to install the file that adds that export 
capability to iMovie 2.1.2 for OS X.

If you didn't get that prompt, you may need to get an OS X first 
install. But there may be another explanation.

The Export goes like this:

Export Movie ... (command-E) —> Export: You have to pull down from "To 
Camera" to "To QuickTime" —> Formats: You have to pull down to the 
bottom "Toast Video CD (NTSC)" —> Then press the blue pulsating Export 
Button.

Did you go through all of that path, Gordon, only to not find "Toast 
Video CD (NTSC)" at the bottom of that last pop up menu?

k

On Tuesday, January 21, 2003, at 06:41  PM, Gordon B. Alley wrote:

>>>  I spoke of success too soon.
>>>
>>>  I repeatedly get a total crash/freeze must restart computer in the
>>>  middle of the Export to QuickTime to Toast VCD (NTSC) procedure.
>>
>> 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..
>
> I'm not the OP, but I have a similar problem, apparently.
>
> I managed to create a Video CD using this technique. Originally, Toast 
> 5.2 would give me the message  "This preview version of Toast Video CD 
> has expired" after it started to encode my QT movie (I first tried 
> this on 1/1/03 -- rotten timing). I eventually learned that the 5.2 
> updater I had downloaded months earlier was a premature release that 
> had an expiration date for some components.
>
> I downloaded the latest 5.2 updater, removed my old Toast 5.2, 
> installed the 5.0 version (using Classic), and then performed the 
> update to 5.2 again.
>
> This got rid of the expiration problem in Toast, and I was able to 
> produce a Video CD as you described above.
>
> But I still don't have the Toast Video CD option in iMovie 2.1.2's 
> QuickTime Export formats popup menu (I've got QT Pro 6.1). I/ve tried 
> iMovie both with and without the Toast Video CD Export files in both 
> /Applications/iMovie.app/Contents/Plug-ins and in 
> ~/Library/iMovie/Plug-ins.
>
> Of course, I guess this will soon be a moot point, at least 
> temporarily. I've got iLife on order, and I read today that iMovie 3 
> breaks the linkage to Toast 5.2 (Roxio is apparently working on a > fix).
>
> But anyway, if anyone has any ideas about what's going on here, I'd 
> still appreciate the info.
>
> Thanks.
> -- 
> Gordon Alley  <*>
> <mailto:galley at texas.net>
> <http://galley.home.texas.net>