Burning project with Toast, not built in burn utility

okay so here's the sitch. got the project finished. but iDVD won't burn it or let me save an image cause it's like .2GB over the disc space for an SL disc and I don't have a DL burner. It just says 'remove content' but theres' nothing I can remove. The only stuff in there is stuff that has to be in there, not a footage second more or a menu more. I even took out the little movie that was going to autoplay at the front and all the menu audio hoping that would do it, but no.
in Toast, this wouldn't be a problem cause it can, and very nicely does, recompress the image just enough to fit it on the avail disc. But I need a way to shoot the project to Toast.

Hmmm, you're in a tough spot. Your iMovie production can be picked up in Toast and a DVD created, but your iDVD menus and themes belong to iDVD and won't make the jump. Here's the options I see:
1) split the project in two and get higher resolution (lower compression) from spreading the material over 2 DVDs.
2) be a tougher editor and remove DVDROM content, footage in your productions, etc.
3) give up your iDVD menus and burn it in Toast (right click your iMovie video icon; Show Package Contents to find the Quicktime version of your video; drag it into Toast).
4) find someone with DVD Studio Pro and import the iDVD project, using that more powerful compressor to shrink down your project, but retain your menus.
5) figure out your double-layer burner options.
John

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Painfully slow DVD burning process with Toast .Tips welcome.

Just new to Mac,, and I am going crazy trying to burn/copy a DVD (legally). I do see that it is burning anywhere from 1-3 times rate (no wonder).I give instructions to do it on auto. And if I bring in a file to burn, which is the best type to import to Toast to burn(and less loss of quality)? Should I, or can I replace (upgrade) my 8 X drive (Matshutita?). Any programs (besides Toast)that will handle burning process faster? I used to grab an mpeg file on my PC, and have it burned within 25 minutes tops with TMPGenc for example. I don't think I can handle the slowness.

Even if you have a fully comliant MPEG-2 source, say EYE TV or a VOB file you still have to "author" the DVD with Toast (or DVD Studio Pro for $1000) to build the final DVD in the right format with VIDEO_TS folder, IFO and BUP files that guide the player. Use Toast. Most of the time a compliant MPEG-2 will not re-encode so the process is quite fast. Set the encoding option to "Never". If it needs to be re-encoded it will do that despite the "Never".
Waste of time paying anything to put a new DVD drive in an iMac. Leave it alone and get an external LaCie firewire as I advised already. The authoring time has zero to do with the drive since all the encoding is done by the mac and then you burn the final image to a DVD. A 1X or 20X won't affect the speed.
I just think the internal drives , iMac, MacBook Pro are slow and pokey and a hassle to use and $100-$150 is worth the expense. The D2 drives come with a full version of Toast as well or they did when I bought mine.

Blu Ray burner issues with Toast

I am trying to hook up a Pioneer BDR-206 to my iMac so I can burn HD movies to Blu Ray. I'm new to Mac so pretty much everything I do is a learning process. I used iMovie to edit the AVCHD files and then exported them. I am using Toast 11 Titanium to burn the movies. Toast seems to encode the movies just fine. But when it starts to burn them I get a hardware error and Toast crashes. I have tried changing the burn speed and made sure the buffer underrun was checked. It crashes at different intervals. I even was able to get one of the Toast discs to completely finish but then the disc wouldn't play in my Blu Ray player. The menu showed up but the videos wouldn't load. I have tried all of Toasts support suggestions but none of it works. I'm hoping someone out there knows more than the tecs at Toast. Otherwise, I'm toast. I've wasted about $25.00 in blank Blu Ray discs already. The error code i get is:
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Hi, welcome to the forums & Macdom!
Sorry, no Blu-ray hear, all I can suggest at this point is Lion Cache Cleaner..
http://www.northernsoftworks.com/lioncachecleaner.html

Nfs mount created with Netinfo not shown by Directory Utility in Leopard

On TIger I used to mount dynamically a few directories using NFS.
To do so, I used NetInfo.
I have upgraded to Leopard and the mounted directories
are still working, although Netinfo is not present anymore.
I was expecting to see these mount points and
modify them using Directory Utility, which has substituted Netinfo.
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Thank you very much! I was able to recreate the static automount that I had previously had. I just had to create the "mounts" directory in /var/db/dslocal/nodes/Default/ and then I saved the following text as a .plist file within "mounts".
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
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<key>vfstype</key>
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I don't think the specific name of the .plist file matters, or the value for "generateduid". I'm listing all this info assuming that someone out there might care.
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Formatted iDVD project complete with Themes, etc...burning through Toast?

I need to use Toast to burn my completed iDVD project. Worked a looong time making it perfect with formatting using Themes, custom Text pages, etc... I'd hate to lose all that, but need to use Toast to compress the video to fit a Single Layer DVD. Does Toast preserve the iDVD formatting or not? Can iDVD finalize a project with Toast burning in mind? Help?

If I'm not mistaken, you can create a disc image to the desktop from the file menu in iDvd. Then burn said image in Toast while selecting the fit to dvd option.
But you may be restricted to selecting one of Toast's basic themes.
click here
step 1
step 2
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Problems while trying to burn project

Good morning
i'm trying to burn project with idvd from ilife 11.
every time the process stuck at the final stage (i think) -
i get "multiplexing and burning" message, below that "done"' is written,
and below that - "rime remaining: about one minute". that message is here for the past 12 hours.
the dvd itself didn't start the burning at all (i tried several times, with several different dvd's)
please help
Thanks
Ran

Why would we start different threads if we are all experiencing the same issue?? Isn't that the point of a thread... I might be new to this forum but not new to forums at all. They are collaborative efforts. I and we appreciate your help but were not going to follow 6 different threads for the what appears to be the same issue. If one of us rectify the issue, others will try the same. If it doesn't work then the thread could progress in that issue or start a new one.
As it states in my signature or info section (what ever you call it over here) I have a late model 2007 17" MacBook Pro3.1 with a 2.6GHz Core 2 Duo, 4GB of Ram and an Intel 160GB Solid State hard drive which has 60GB of free space. Im also running OSX 10.6.5, I just ran a software update and everything is up to date. Disk utility reports a healthy disk, verified and no errors.
I can burn CDs and backup DVDs from iTunes. I WAS able to burn DVDs from iDVD before I upgraded to iLife'11. Nothing else was running while i was doing this. I've tried on different types and brands of media with no success. Every time it gets hung up at the same spot and spits out the disk which is unreadable.
I CAN create a disk image (just did) and its sitting on my desktop. Inserted blank DVD+R, opened it up in finder, dragged and dropped the .img into it, burnt and verified.

Burning dvd with premiere elements 11

I burn video files on to dvds. I always key NTSC widescreen. Sometimes, the image fills the tv screen. Most of the time however, there is a 2" wide black border around the image, between the image and the edge of the tv screen. How do I get the image to fill the tv screen?

Thank you for responding to my problem. I'm afraid the reading didn't help. All of my 20 files were created with the same camera, the same project settings, the same equipment, etc. But when I burned each of them to their own dvd disc, a few of the programs filled the frame on the tv down the hall. Most however, have a 2" black border around the image. It makes no sense to me.
Date: Sun, 10 Mar 2013 10:32:25 -0700
From: [email protected]
To: [email protected]
Subject: Burning dvd with premiere elements 11
Re: Burning dvd with premiere elements 11 created by John T Smith in Premiere Elements - View the full discussion
Some reading that may help... what you describe SEEMS like a mismatch between your video and your project
Online User Guide http://help.adobe.com/en_US/premiereelements/using/index.html
-Page to download current PDF http://helpx.adobe.com/premiere-elements.html
Importing Video http://forums.adobe.com/thread/1065281
-and project settings http://forums.adobe.com/thread/1112086
Saving & Sharing http://forums.adobe.com/thread/1137128
-Sharing to DVD or BluRay http://forums.adobe.com/thread/1137645
-Sharing for Movies http://forums.adobe.com/thread/1051093
-Sharing for Computer http://forums.adobe.com/thread/1058237
Steve's Basic Training Tutorials... steps are the same for several versions
-http://forums.adobe.com/thread/537685
-v11 http://www.amazon.com/Muvipix-Guide-Premiere-Elements-version/dp/14793 11200/
-All http://www.amazon.com/Tricks-Adobe-Premiere-Elements-Muvipix-com/dp/14 51529724/
-and http://forums.adobe.com/thread/498626
-and http://prodesigntools.com/four-hours-free-video-tutorials-new-photosho p-elements-9-pse9.html
-and http://prodesigntools.com/five-hours-free-tutorials-photoshop-and-prem iere-elements-7-and-8.html
FAQ http://forums.adobe.com/community/premiere_elements/premiere_elements_ faq
TIPS http://forums.adobe.com/community/premiere_elements/premiere_elements_ tips
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CREATING "MASTER" PROJECT WITH PREMIERE ELEMENTS (PRE)

I am creating a new thread following up on earlier questions re Premiere Elements 8.0 (PRE).
I have created (authored?) 14 projects with music using PRE and burned each on 1 DVD. I did not save to a folder, but went to Share and Burn Disc. They show well on TV from an ordinary DVD player. Now I must combine these projects into 3 "master" projects on 3 DVDs and burn multiple copies to send to former members of my Boy Scout Troop. See the chart below. I thought (silly me) that I could do that straightforwardly with PRE. I am going to start following suggestions from Bill Hunt and Nealeh.
Titles of Existing “Premiere Elements 8.0” “Sub” Projects
All Burned Individually to NTSC DVD Standard
Each Project Now on Separate DVD
No. of Slides
Running Time
Min:Sec
Desired
New Project for DVD Players
Introduction & Dedication
21
5:30
DVD NO. 1
417 Slides
69:46
With Main Menu Marker for Each SubProject
1974 Canoe Trip
60
9:12
1975 Canoe Trip
105
16:41
1976 Canoe Trip
24
5:12
1977 Canoe Trip
16
3:00
1978 Canoe Trip
89
14:02
1979 Canoe Trip
15
2:15
1982 Canoe Trip
87
13:54
1973 Jamboree
62
10:42
DVD NO. 2
247 Slides
34:32
With Main Menu Marker for Each SubProject
1981 Jamboree
124
15:11
1985-2001 Jamboree
61
8:39
Troop 184 Camping & Hiking
190
34:28
DVD NO. 3
443 Slides
78:12
With Main Menu Marker for Each SubProject
Other Activities 1972--1985
65
10:19
Troop 184 Family Camping 1974--2006
188
33:25
Total Slides
1,107
182:30
182:30

Hey, those ain't "newbie" questions. The first one gets posted to the Forum Comments forum weekly. The second one, well I should have posted my normal detail, but got lazy - mea culpa, mea culpa.
1.) This ARTICLE should step you through the processes with the e-mails. If you have any questions, let us know. There are several places, where e-mail notification can be turned ON and OFF. Some are global, and some are specific to threads.*
2.) Ah, the ImgBurn site. The top 2/3 are all ads. Hey, it's great free software, so who can blame 'em? Scroll down to where the page has the various versions and what they addressed. There is a Download button there (well below those ads). That is what you want. Normally, I mention the scrolling way down page, but you caught me here.
Good luck,
Hunt
* Going back a few months, while trying to help another user on the Forum Comments forum, I got hit with a global change in my e-mail settings. I got about 1,000/day, for every forum that I participate in - think 1,000 x PS, PrPRo, Encore, InDesign, Illustrator, Audition, PrE and all of their sub-fora! Fortunately, it only took about 3 days for Adobe to get that fixed.

DVD Quality With Toast Titanium 8 Help

how come when i download a movie and watch it on quicktime the quality of the video it perfect but when i burn it with Toast Titanium and watch it on my dvd player the quality isnt as good its kinda pixilated?
thanks for the help

the pixel would probably be caused by:
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2. "medium" transfer, the data goes through many process of in and out having quality lost in effect... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MPEG-1
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Burning DVD in Lion Problems. Keep getting REGION ERRORS in SONY DVD PLAYER @ playback. Settings correct. Leopard burns fine with all media. Lion does not with TOAST. DVDSTYLER burns a readable disk.

I have tried several types of media in a brand new (less than 2 months old) 27" iMac running the latest version of Lion. It will not burn a standalone DVD player readable disk. I am in North America and buring in NTSC format. Settings are set properly. Buring at BEST speed - states its burning at 3x. I have tested SONY printable DVD's +R and Verbatim non printable -R disks in Lion with Roxio Toast 8 & 10. No luck. DVDSTYLER burns a readable disk, but not realy happy about the look and functionality.
I am getting REGION LIMITATION errors in the SONY and other stand alone DVD Players.
Disk plays in XBox 360 and laptop PC also.
I am set to region 1.
AS I stated, DVDSTYLER does burn a readable disk, the problem seems to be with TOAST and LION ?
My old 21" iMac running Leopard 10.5.8 has no problems with burning. Any media, Toast 8, disks perform just fine.
Any suggestions ?
My only solution is to do the editing of movies I need to do on the 27" and transfer them to the 21" for burning.
lame
Or use the sub par DVDSTYLER program.
acceptable but disappointing.
ideas ?

SONY DVD player is brand spankin new.
Have not tried Imation disks.
Its just puzzling that Leopard and Toast 8 produces a DVD where as Lion and Toast 8 produces a coaster.
I tried not printiable Verbatims. Same result.
Need printables for the projects that I do.
Appreciate the suggetsions.
Will be methodically dilligent and post any results here.
any help from any others would be appreciated.

Burned DVD won't play on outside player but OK with Toast

Here we go again!
After scanning the other posts I still cannot find anything to make my problem go away.
Situation: New G5 Quad and all of HD Suite installed.
Have gone through DVDPro advanced tutorial OK.
Burned to Memorex DVD-R media.
Plays great on G5, and a G3 that I still have, with DVD Player app.
But after trying disc on 3 different outside players they still come up with "unreadable disk" or "bad disk".
Players are relatively new - one mf'd within the last year in a TV combo, and the other, my favorite, Apex AD1200.
I figure if something will play on ANY machine, it will play on the Apex.
I have burned the same file to Toast 7 using the DVD Video from VIDEO_TS option and have been able to play it on my Apex with no problem.
However, inserting this "Toasted" disk into my computer gets me everything except the audio.
I have talked to Support and they do not cover this problem, but pointed me to a page on the Apple website for deleting preferences, which I have done with no effect, and have done a clean re-install of the application, again with no change in what I am getting when re-burning disks.
Anyone have any ideas as to what needs to be done to make this application work properly?
G5 Quad Mac OS X (10.4.5)
G5 Quad Mac OS X (10.4.5)

GENTLEMEN -
I posted this to the BMUG website subsequent to chasing down the suggestions offered at that time.
So far the response has been ZERO . . .
At the March 20 meeting I brought up my problems with selecting the correct media for burning my DVD Pro files so that they would play well across a range of dvd players out in the real world - approaching what you expect when you buy a commercially produced DVD movie.
I’m running the G5 Quad, and have the Final Cut Studio HD package.
I am simply looking for some guidance from Apple. Is there a favorite media that has been settled on by Apple, or Apple employees by word of mouth?
One of the attendees stated that he had no problems with his machine or disks that he produced. I wish to communicate with him as to exactly what he is doing and what he is using to be problem-free.
Another attendee suggested I contact the drive manufacturer and ask what media they recommend. Problem is, there is nothing in the Apple profiler that tells me who manufactured this drive. All I can glean from my profiler is the model number, which is HL-DT-ST DVD-RW GWA-4165B. Other forums suggest it is a Hitachi. My own investigation yields the probable manufacturer as LG Electronics. They do not show that EXACT model number (the last 4 digits are slightly different) in their lineup, so I am assuming it is a special build for Apple. So much for that line of inquiry.
I initially used DVD-R media. This played back OK on my computer DVD player, and about 2 out of 15 other DVD players I sampled. Using the same media and file, I burned a disk using Toast 7 on the superdrive. It played fine on three players it did not play on before. I only used the ones that I had immediate access to.
When I switched to 2 different DVD+R media I got the same results as the “Toasted” -R disk.
Why is it OK with Toast on the superdrive, but not with DVDPro on the superdrive???
There is no question about the correctness of the file itself. It is the completed Advanced Tutorial for DVD Pro.
I cannot proceed with projects I have until I can be certain that I am not producing coasters for the majority of the dvd readers out in the real world. I purchased all this gear just so that I could do what it promises can be done with it.
Some answers.
Please.
G5 Quad Mac OS X (10.4.5)

Burning iDVD projects with external LaCie burner

I recently purchased a LaCie DL d2 DVD RW with LightScribe 16x from LaCie (12/07/2007). The primary reason for my purchase was that I wished to create/burn iDVD projects on my iMac computer. The reason that I needed this product was due to the fact that, when I purchased my iMac, I made an error and ordered the iMac with a combo rather than SuperDrive. So, while I am able to create iDVD projects and iMovies, I am unable to burn DVDs with my project.
Thus far, however, I have not been able to burn a DVD with any of my products. When I attempt a “burn” the Creating your DVD menu appears and when I put in a blank DVD+RW 4x 4/7GB, it goes through the process (Prepare,,, Process Menus... Process Slideshows... Process Movies and Burn procedures). The DVD is then ejected and a message says its done and is “cleaning up.” However, that message never leaves the screen and when I click on the “Cancel” button, nothing happens. The iDVD application seems to lock up and I have to do a “force quit.”
I have tried this with three different project, all with the same result. When I place the supposed “burn” DVD in the Combo Drive, it spins for a while and kicks the DVD out.
I have also tried launching Toast Titanium (software that came with the LaCie burner). However, I see no place where I can “drag & drop” a iDVD product to the “drop zone.’
Can you help me out. Should I be able to burn iDVD projects with this unit? If so, what am I doing wrong.
Thanks for any help that you can provide.
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"Should I be able to burn iDVD projects with _*this unit?*_"
Which "model" & "generation" G5 iMac do you have?
Need this info so that the knowledgeable users can provide you with the proper troubleshooting solution(s).
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=301724-en How to identify your iMac
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?path=Mac/10.4/en/mh355.html Getting information about your computer
You can have this info displayed on the bottom of every post by going to 'My Settings' which is located in the column on the right under your name, and filling in the information asked for.
Thank you
Have you contacted LaCie Support?

How to burn dual layer iDVD image with Toast?

OK so I'm a bit of a Mac newbie, but I've bought some DVD+R DLs and tried to burn this project that's filled to the rim (7.7GB, 99 titles). OK, so there's encoding, right? But after that process (which you know takes FOREVER in my case), the MacBook pops the DVD out everytime without doing anything. It did not even burn a thing. So, I initially know about the "Save into DVD Image" option in the file menu and it's currently encoding. And as you may also know, there will definitely be a prompt stating that dual layered images aren't guaranteed to work. But I'm hopeless because I need this by Sunday March 9 (American time). Will anyone suggest a method of burning so that the image, when I dismount it, will work? Or rather, after burning with Toast which I have, make it work on a DVD player? I set the ratio to 4:3 just to fit all those titles and the brand of DVD+R DL I bought is, IMHO, a not-so popular brand in the US, nor in the Philippines, called Universal. But I don't think that this is a matter of brand choice by the MacBook's drive, though. Because it is read as a blank DVD disc, and that I have the various options dialog box thingy displayed.

I didn't have much luck in Roxio. Sigh. I guess this is gonna be a hit or miss situation.
But here's another question: If I put more "assets" into the other project I'm doing (because I'm gonna make the project encode in the background for the entirety of the day tomorrow since I'm out), will the encoding repeat?

How can I burn a copy of my project to a DVD . I do not have IDVD because I have the Lion os. I did purchase Wondershare for burning but it will not load the iMovie events or projects

How can I burn a copy of my project to a DVD . I do not have IDVD because I have the Lion OS. I did purchase Wondershare for burning but it will not load the iMovie events or projects

There is no proper substitute for iDVD.
Why is there no iDVD on my new Mac?
https://discussions.apple.com/docs/DOC-3673
UPDATE & ADDENDUM:
But even though you can still buy iLife 11 that includes iDVD 7 from Amazon, Apple now make it difficult to install:
Poster jhb21939 posted this in another thread:
“when I attempted to load iDVD into a new iMac. A notice came up on the screen stating that the 'Authorisation Licence' had expired on 25 March this year (2012).
I contacted the Apple support team and eventually, I was told that the Licence had been withdrawn and could no longer be used.”
In other words Apple are now so adamant that we don’t use iDVD that they have tried to make it impossible to install.
In response, Old Toad posted this solution:
“You can still use it one all of your Macs. If you get an invalid certificate message just set your Mac's clock to sometime before early 2011 and run the installer. After you're done reset the time back to the correct time.” He added this comment:
“It began after iDVD and iWeb were discontued and they were dropped from the Apple Store. All I can think of is the certificate was set to expire after a certain time period after the intitial iLife disc was released.
I've been able to use the installer even without setting back the date. I just clicked on the Continue button and it would work as expected. For some it would not continue unless the date was set back.”
The latest anorexic iMacs just announced do not even include a CD drive! Proof positive that Apple virtually prohibit the use of DVDs - although the newly announced Mac Minis do include a Superdrive.
Yet, they still include iMovie! Heaven alone knows or understands what you are supposed to do with your newly edited masterpiece - except make a low quality version for YouTube?

If there ever was a NEW update for iMovie, will iMovie have the ability to burn projects onto a Blu-Ray disc so that customers don't have to pay for additional software like Final Cut Pro or Roxio Toast Titanium/Pro?

It would be helpful for those who are familier with iMovie to use Blu-Ray discs for burning and playing back their iMovie projects in HD. However, iMovie '11 doesn't have that special feature yet. I hear that 'Final Cut Pro X,' 'Roxio Toast 11 Titanium' and 'Roxio Toast 11 Pro' can copy projects like iMovie onto Blu-Ray, but it would take long periods of time to do that. Professional software, like FCP X and Toast, can be pricey.
I'm hoping that iMovie '11 will burn projects onto Blu-Ray, but will that ever come true?

Will iBlu-Ray be an upgrade? OR and update of iDVD?
If it's an upgrade, then that means you'd still pay for it from the Mac App Store. I wish it would only cost between $20-40.
If it's a free update of iDVD, but with the new name, that would be better than to go out and pay for things!!!
However, external Blu-ray recorders would still be required if you were going to burn an iMovie project onto a blu-ray disc.
Is there a way to put in a request for 'iBlu-Ray?'

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