Building a Dual Layered DVD

We need to create a DVD that will ultimately be formatted for a Dual Layered DVD. Our department dosen't have a Dual Layered Burner, but we have to create 2 DVDs that will go to another house so THEY can build the Dual Layered DVD.
The book says that when we format it will prompt us to put in another disc for the opposite layer, BUT when we go to format it, it tells us that the "disc size is too big and it is going to make the image to the maximum allowed size and leave the image incomplete".
HOW do we get it to format to 2 discs correctly???????
Thanks.

Are you going to eventually want a DVD+R DL disc or a 2 DLT's.
Do you have your project set to a 2 layer project (DVD9)?
When you set your Destination in the Format window, what are your setting it to? Your burner? or Harddrive?
Set it to harrdrive and ddp 2.0.
Then you can have a file that you can use Toast to burn with.
After your build the files to your harddrive with ddp2.0, then open toast and select Data, then DVD-ROM (UDF).
Then burn each layer to a DVD-R.
Then a replicator can use these DVD-R's for each layer.
Sorry if that wasn't what you wanted done, but try and write back to let us know how it goes.

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Better error correction software would explain why the discs play on the expensive unit but not the "cheap" one. At the least the discs play.
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- I did try copying one of the "failed" discs back to the hard drive; but this failed which I think is a good indication that the disc isn't 100%.
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