Toast Titanium: Writing video to DVD

Sometimes it makes me encode files to PAL or NTSC, sometimes not. How can I get away without doing this?
To my knowledge, the video was all either AVI or MP4 files, yet sometimes it makes me encode them, even if I click keep to NTSC, (or also encode to PAL) and then it takes ages.
I remember before writing some video to DVD and it taking no time at all without the need to encode the files. Does anyone know why sometimes it works and sometimes it doesnt?
Thanks in advance.

In Toast Prefernces you select how you want the movie encoded. NTSC will play on players in the US. PAL will play on players in UK. So a movie file from the UK needs to be encoded to NTSC to play on a US player. It doesnt matter if a file is .avi or .mp4. Toast is a third party application and Roxio has support at their web site. Check it out. They also have an extensive manual.

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