[IriMex]

I am digitizing my favorite old LP albums using a Pioneer DVR with DVD and HDD. I record and write the LPs as movies with just audio and then use Toast to convert to CD audio and then I use Audacity to adjust the volume and then CD Spin Doctor to manually mark the tracks.

When I try to do a whole album at a time Toast is truncating to thirty three and a half minutes so that it loses the end of long albums. I will work around this by just doing a side at a time but this is still an annoying bug. Toast should not do it or else should warn that it is doing it.

---IriMex

[tsantee]

Are you using the Media Browser to extract the MPEG from the DVD? Do not drag the VIDEO_TS directly to the Video window.

If you are recording in Video mode with your Pioneer recorder, the file is filled with time code breaks that Toast can fix when extracting through the Media browser. I choose to record in VR mode with my Pioneer DVR-510H when I know I'll be extracting the video using Toast. Those files don't have the time code breaks.

I've done the same as you (except for the normalizing in Audacity). I suggest you try this trick: unplug the video input to the Pioneer when recording your audio. Because the Pioneer will have no video it now fits about 6-7 hours of PCM audio on a DVD when recording at the PCM mode. Toast still can extract the audio-only MPEGs with the Media Browser. At least it works that way with my model.

Also, have you adjusted the input volume on the Pioneer using the Audio/Video adjust menu? I record at its highest input setting, although that still could use a boost in software later on.

[IriMex]

are you doing a side at a time (one side of an LP per file) or have you been able to convert whole albums longer than 34 minutes without having them truncated?
---IriMex

tsantee, on Nov 18 2006, 07:33 AM, said:

Are you using the Media Browser to extract the MPEG from the DVD? Do not drag the VIDEO_TS directly to the Video window.

If you are recording in Video mode with your Pioneer recorder, the file is filled with time code breaks that Toast can fix when extracting through the Media browser. I choose to record in VR mode with my Pioneer DVR-510H when I know I'll be extracting the video using Toast. Those files don't have the time code breaks.

I've done the same as you (except for the normalizing in Audacity). I suggest you try this trick: unplug the video input to the Pioneer when recording your audio. Because the Pioneer will have no video it now fits about 6-7 hours of PCM audio on a DVD when recording at the PCM mode. Toast still can extract the audio-only MPEGs with the Media Browser. At least it works that way with my model.

Also, have you adjusted the input volume on the Pioneer using the Audio/Video adjust menu? I record at its highest input setting, although that still could use a boost in software later on.

This post has been edited by IriMex: 18 November 2006 - 04:11 PM

[tsantee]

IriMex, on Nov 18 2006, 03:44 PM, said:

are you doing a side at a time (one side of an LP per file) or have you been able to convert whole albums longer than 34 minutes without having them truncated?
---IriMex

I press pause on the Pioneer recorder when changing sides of LPs. I press stop recording at the end of the second side, and then press the record button when doing a second LP. That way each title on the disc has the entire LP. I don't recall ever running into an issue with their length. I've also extracted many longer movies to Toast and never had a problem as long as I used the Media Browser for extraction.

[IriMex]

tsantee, on Nov 18 2006, 05:32 PM, said:

I press pause on the Pioneer recorder when changing sides of LPs. I press stop recording at the end of the second side, and then press the record button when doing a second LP. That way each title on the disc has the entire LP. I don't recall ever running into an issue with their length. I've also extracted many longer movies to Toast and never had a problem as long as I used the Media Browser for extraction.

thanks for the suggestions!
I tried using the media browser and then converting to CD audio and that worked with full long albums.

It doesn't make as much of a difference now that I am using Amadeus Pro and can join sides easily but it is slightly more convenient.