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[drrichardh]

I am running old equipment a G4 350Mhz machine with OS X 10.2.8 and Toast 6.

This evening, for the first time, I tried to make what Roxio is calling an Enhanced Content Video Disk. I was using DVD +R media and followed these instructions from the Toast Help:

1. Click the Video tab, then click the Disc Settings button. The Disc Settings drawer opens
2. In the Disc Settings drawer, click Advanced, then select the Add Data Contents check button.
3. For the video part of the enchanced video disk, add video or photos to the Video contecnt area. For more information see Adding Video or Slideshows to a Video Disc.
4. Click the Data tab.
5. For the data part of the enhanced disc, add files or folders to the Data content area. for more informatoin see Adding Files or folders to a Data Disc
6. Click the red record button.
7. When prompted, insert a disc into the currently selected recorder. Toast displays a progress bar as it records your enchanced video disc.


In my case, when I clicked the red record button the only thing recorded was the data files( .jpegs). Once these had been burned to the DVD the program announced it was finalizing the disk then told me it was done. It never touched the video files.


I was expecting the program to complete the data files, end that session, then start a second session to burn the video onto the same media.

Am I completely missing the point here?  Does this require RW media?  Or is it possible that this process does not work with DVD but needs a CD instead.

What I was trying to do was to create slideshow where the image files for these slides would also be on the same DVD.

Does anyone know of another way to do this?  Or is my equipment just too old to support any of this?

Thanks to anyone who can shed some light on this.


NEW INFORMATION -------------

Looks like this was a case of just not recognizing that things were working after all.

Above I note "I was expecting the program to complete the data files, end that session, then start a second session to burn the video onto the same media."  My expectation were all wrong.

The program DID copy all the video and image files onto the same DVD.  It just never let me know that this had happened. Since I was interested in seeing the results of the slideshow I was forgetting to just put the DVD into my computer and double click its icon.  When I did this I discovered that the traditional TS folder is in there holding all the parts of the slideshow AND each of the image files are also copied to the the DVD.

If this program had a written manual this process would have been easier to understand.

I'm going to leave this message on the forum for a while in case there are other users who are wondering about this process but there's no need to anyone to send any answers to this posting.

Edited by drrichardh, 15 December 2006 - 06:26 PM.

[Eagan Man]

I run the same 1-7 drill outlined below, using a blank +R dvd disc on my iBook with an external Pioneer burner, but do not get the same results. Toast is v6.1.1.

After adding content via the video and data tabs, I hit the record button. If the data tab is active, only the data is burned. If the video tab is active, only the video content is burned. What is the trick to getting BOTH to burn to a single disc? I'm sure I'm missing something the obvious. The Toast help files lack much detail.

thanks,

Ben

drrichardh, on Dec 13 2006, 06:34 PM, said:

I am running old equipment a G4 350Mhz machine with OS X 10.2.8 and Toast 6.

This evening, for the first time, I tried to make what Roxio is calling an Enhanced Content Video Disk. I was using DVD +R media and followed these instructions from the Toast Help:

1. Click the Video tab, then click the Disc Settings button. The Disc Settings drawer opens
2. In the Disc Settings drawer, click Advanced, then select the Add Data Contents check button.
3. For the video part of the enchanced video disk, add video or photos to the Video contecnt area. For more information see Adding Video or Slideshows to a Video Disc.
4. Click the Data tab.
5. For the data part of the enhanced disc, add files or folders to the Data content area. for more informatoin see Adding Files or folders to a Data Disc
6. Click the red record button.
7. When prompted, insert a disc into the currently selected recorder. Toast displays a progress bar as it records your enchanced video disc.
(snip)

[tsantee]

I know how to do this with video DVD format. Toast Help doesn't describe the steps completely.

When the data content is accompanying a video DVD then choose DVD Rom (UDF) format in the Data window. Click New disc and name the disc the same as you name the DVD in the Video window. Add your data files. Now return to the Video window. Burn your DVD from the Video window (making sure you have the Add Data Content box checked).

[Eagan Man]

Thanks very much. I'll give it a shot tomorrow. Yippee -- no more coasters!

[Eagan Man]

Not quite perfect, alas. The DVD portion works fine, but the data content can be read only on a Mac, not a PC.  

Is there a trick to making the data PC-readable?

Edited by Eagan Man, 29 December 2006 - 11:08 AM.