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[big w]

Beginner needs step by step settings to duplicate several mini DVD-RW's to reg. DVD-R with the
same 16:9 video and dolby 5.1 suround audio (if possible).
I just bought a Memorex DVD Burner3202 3288 (FireWire) hooked up to a G4 running 10.4.7.
The choices in Toast Titanium 7.1 are overwelming! The minis can go into the build-in superdrive
to be burned to a FireWire connected Memorex Burner. Please help.
Thank you for your time and patience.
                                                                               big w

[tsantee]

Choose DVD-video in the Toast Video window. Click the Media button to enter the Media Browser. With the mini disc inserted, choose DVD with the top button in the browser. Go down to the title level with the lower button. Drag the video from the left window to the Video window. When that is copied do the same for other mini discs. Edit the text for the menu, name the DVD and set the thumbnail image as you like. Burn the DVD.

[big w]

tsantee, on Sep 27 2006, 06:03 AM, said:

Choose DVD-video in the Toast Video window. Click the Media button to enter the Media Browser. With the mini disc inserted, choose DVD with the top button in the browser. Go down to the title level with the lower button. Drag the video from the left window to the Video window. When that is copied do the same for other mini discs. Edit the text for the menu, name the DVD and set the thumbnail image as you like. Burn the DVD.

Thank you for your help Eugene!
One more question: Is it possible to edit (cut out unwanted stuff in toast or in iMovie, iDVD?
                                                                     big w

[tsantee]

Toast doesn't do any video editing. There are a few formats such as DV in which you can choose the start and end point within a video title using the Toast Edit window, but that won't work with your mini DVDs which I'm presuming are MPEG encoded.

You might check if PixeVRF Browser available at pixela-1.com will read your mini DVDs because it supports MPEG trimming.

Another option is to use Toast to extract the videos as I previously described. Go to the Roxio Converted Items folder and you'll see those extracted MPEGs (don't quit Toast or they are automatically deleted unless you change Toast preferences). You can open those MPEGs with MPEG Streamclip, trim out what you don't want, and save a new file with Streamclip. Then replace the one in the Toast Video window with the one saved by Streamclip.

MPEG Streamclip is freeware but it requires the $20 Apple QuickTime MPEG 2 Component in order to work.

[sjkrox]

big w, on Sep 27 2006, 06:25 AM, said:

Thank you for your help Eugene!

Eugene (Oregon) is where tsantee is from, not his name.

[big w]

Sorry about that tsantee and thank you again.
                                                                    big w

sjkrox, on Sep 29 2006, 04:17 PM, said:

Eugene (Oregon) is where tsantee is from, not his name. :)