Hi All - thanks for all the replies. Much appreciated.
I have followed Martin's advice successfully (thank you Ray for
spelling it out as well). I have been editing since I started
recording some time ago. So that's OK.
Ronni - the message that I got when just trying to burn without doing
the above method was: Not enough free disk space. 7.13 GB needed,
4.99 GB available. If you choose to continue, please remember to free
up some disk space.
Interestingly, when I successfully burnt using Martin's/Ray's method
of saving a disk image, I got the same message although I was saving
to the hard drive (actually had 11 GB free!!). I chose to continue to
see what happened and it seemed to work anyway!
I now have a query about the quality of the video - the first 75%
(approx) was fine, but then the last portion had lots of "jerkiness" -
it would stop for a few seconds as if on pause then start up again,
losing a very tiny bit of continuity. Any idea what could have caused
this? Not enough space on the hard drive? I was doing this on an
older G4 iMac, Tiger OS (10.4.11 ?) This movie was 1h:43m. I also
burnt Cast Away which is a tad over 2 hrs after editing ads, so it
will be interesting to see when the jerkiness starts in that one, if
it does, since I freed a bit of space after burning the first one.
Cheers, & thanks, Alex
On 10/11/2009, at 5:39 PM, Martin Hill wrote:
Toast does indeed allow you to set the quality settings to cram more
on a DVD. A few days back I burnt 4 hrs of standard def video onto
a dual layer DVD +R without problems using Toast Titanium 7.13.
Here's a bit more info from the Roxio forums:
http://forums.support.roxio.com/index.php?showtopic=53086
"Toast will fit somewhere near 3-1/2 hours of video on a single-
layer disc. You can manually set your average and maximum bit rates
and set the audio bit rate to its lowest setting to get maximum
content. You also can choose Save as Disc Image to have Toast make a
DL-sized disc image file and then use the Fit-to-DVD option in the
Copy window to further compress the video to single-layer disc
(that's the approach I recommend).
Toast can only encode at full resolution. However, if you use
another MPEG encoder to make the MPEG 2 (or MPEG 1) videos at a
lesser resolution that still meets the video DVD specs Toast will
use those to put up to about six hours (or maybe more) of video on
one disc."
-Mart
On 10/11/2009, at 5:15 PM, Susan Hastings wrote:
Doesn't toast do compression of video to fit on one DVD? I haven't
done it for a long time, but have a vague memory of this being an
option
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Mobile: 0409688004
On 10/11/2009, at 4:59 PM, Ronda Brown <ro...@mac.com> wrote:
Hello Alex,
You should be able to fit about 2 hours of standard-definition
video on a DVD, or about 2 hours of high-definition video on a
25GB Blu-ray disc (I don't know whether Toast 7.1.3 had Blu-ray
capabilities), I use Toast Titanium 10 Pro.
Did you trim out the commercials before burning?
What message is Toast giving you?
Cheers,
Ronni
On 10/11/2009, at 2:36 PM, aln...@highway1.com.au wrote:
Hi Wamuggians
I have been burning shows recorded with EyeTV by hitting the
Toast button (using Toast Titanium 7.1.3). This only works for
shows under 1.5 hrs in duration. I believe I have to export to
another format to be able to fit the longer shows onto a DVD.
Can someone please inform as to the best format to use so that it
can play on a standard DVD player? Also, do I export and save to
hard drive and then burn in a second step? Does this take an
extraordinarily long time?
Many thanks for your assistance,
Cheers, Alex
Alex Novakovic
Best Computer Accounting
041 990 2440
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