steelehill, on Nov 3 2006, 08:55 AM, said:
Okay, thanks in advance. Many questions.
Recently upgraded to toast 6.1.1 after finally reading that my old version 6.0.6 was not compatible with my quicktime 7.1.3.
I edited a sequence in Final Cut Pro (after importing my media from a dvd by using Streamclip and the export to quicktime function).
I exported my sequence as a quicktime movie - current settings (DV NTSC) - best quality. The file is about 14 gigs. Is that too much for toast to handle?
Toast 6 can fit up to 90 minutes of video to a single-layer DVD using its MPEG encoder.
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Is it better quality to export as mpeg2 and put that in toast?
If you have Compressor then it is much better to use that and then drag the resulting .m2v file to Toast than it is to use Toast 6's MPEG encoder.
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Or is a quicktime setting of uncompressed 10 bit better than a setting of current settings?
Sorry, I don't understand the question.
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Now I want to burn a dvd in toast 6.1.1 with chapter markers (which I made in FCP and which I checked off in the chapter markers box in the FCP quicktime export window). Also, (maybe because i was using 6.0.6) but my chapter markers were visible at the top of the screen which I don't want. And when I used the remote to go to a marker it was not where I had placed it in FCP.
Unfortunately I don't have FCP so I don't know what Toast 6 does with its chapter markers. When Toast doesn't recognize chapter markers you can use its setting in the Edit window to select time intervals for chapters. If you import a MPEG 2 video with chapter markers into Toast, Toast retains those markers. If it doesn't see markers in an MPEG 2 video it adds them in 5-minute increments.
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I would like to have a dvd menu with buttons in which the buttons are frames from where I placed the markers. But I don't see how to add buttons. I read somewhere that you are only allowed three buttons. Why isn't this in the help menu? What if I have twelve markers and want to see them all?
Toast 6 does not create a menu for chapters. It only has a Title menu. After 3 titles on a page there Toast adds a button to advance to another page of 3 Titles up to a total of 99 Titles. You could export your movie as separate files for each chapter and drag those in order to Toast as individual Titles. Turning on autoplay would continuously play from one Title to the next. However, on some players there might be a slight freeze between titles. Toast 7 can automatically create a chapter menu.
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And I noticed watching the dvd that people had lines around them (sorry forgot the tech term) if they were moving a lot. Is there a way to prevent that?
That sounds like the field dominance is reversed. Try changing the field dominance in the FCP export. Toast 7 has a setting to choose field dominance and does better at automatically checking it, but Toast 6 does not. Using Compressor to create the MPEG probably will fix this.
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Finally, when i edited in FCP i was editing from the import of two vob files. But all i did was change the sound, kept it the same length though. Is there any way to "sort of" preserve the original vob files, and just somehow add the new sound?
One option would be to use MPEG Streamclip to export the VOBs as separate .m2v and .aiff streams. You then can edit the audio stream. Drag the .m2v stream to Toast and it will ask for the matching audio stream. That way there is no MPEG decoding or encoding required. You can't use the .m2v in Final Cut however. I'd suggest editing the AIFF in QuickTime Pro or an audio editing application. Since you've already created an audio track with FCP you can export just the audio from FCP and use it with the .m2v. Be sure the audio is 48 khz 16-bit.
Good luck.
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