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[Eastcoaster]

Hi everyone,

When I need to burn an AVI in Toast, I love being able to set it to DVD-Video, then drop in the AVI, Toast encodes it and burns the DVD just fine.

I'm trying to do the same thing with a Quicktime movie (.MOV) but I'm not having any luck.  Toast takes some time to transcode it, but in the resulting DVD, the picture is stretched into a tiny, tiny thin line running through the middle of the screen.  I tried changing the setup in Toast to "16:9" where it was previously 4:3 (the movie is widescreen), and the result I got was the movie being squashed into 4:3 format.

I feel like I'm missing one piece in the setup, or some simple solution, to having Toast do with my MOV what it normally does with an AVI.  

Is what I'm doing possible?  I'm on a Mac.

Kirby

[tsantee]

What was used to create the .mov file? How does Toast describe the video's specs? (they are described below the title when you drag the video to the Toast window).

Are there any black bars on the top and bottom of the .mov file?

There is a way to fix the one that looks squished because that is a playback problem and not an encoding problem. The fix involves several steps and a donation-ware application called MyDVDEdit. My brother has had to use it when shooting video with an anamorphic lens.

After I know more about your video file I'll provide more info about this.

Edited by tsantee, 31 March 2009 - 07:43 AM.

[Eastcoaster]

What was used to create the .mov file? How does Toast describe the video's specs? (they are described below the title when you drag the video to the Toast window).

Are there any black bars on the top and bottom of the .mov file?

There is a way to fix the one that looks squished because that is a playback problem and not an encoding problem. The fix involves several steps and a donation-ware application called MyDVDEdit. My brother has had to use it when shooting video with an anamorphic lens.

After I know more about your video file I'll provide more info about this.

OK, here's more info about this:

the .mov was converted from an AVI (PAL).  I had the 90-minute AVI and inserted subtitles into it.  The movie, in Quicktime, plays in its widescreen format without letterboxing.  The video's default size is 576x304 -- it's natively widescreen and not in 4:3 format.

Toast (I'm actually using Toast 8) says that the .MOV is DivX 6.0, 576x60, .47 fps. Audio is MPEG Layer-3, Stereo, 48000 hz.

And I'm just noticing that the 576x60 is actually the format it's outputting in: the width is fine but the movie's height is smashed to 60.

I do have MyDVDEdit but am trying to avoid adding another link in the chain if possible... I'm hoping it's just a matter of adjusting a setting in Toast.

And hey, thank you for taking a look at this and responding -- I love that there are people like you helping us out on forums!

Kirby

[tsantee]

An off-the-wall guess is that somehow Toast is seeing your subtitles as the height of the movie file. Also, it is confused because it is reporting what is certainly an inaccurate frame rate. I'm wondering how the audio sync held up in the DVDs you created.

There is nothing I can think of that you can do within Toast when it doesn't correctly identify the video's specs. Maybe there is something you can do in QuickTime Pro to create a file that Toast correctly reads. Otherwise you may need to use something else to encode the MPEG 2 video for use in Toast.

Since you are familiar with MyDVDEdit you should be able to change the 4:3 aspect ratio to 16:9 in the IFO and burn a new disc.

[Eastcoaster]

An off-the-wall guess is that somehow Toast is seeing your subtitles as the height of the movie file. Also, it is confused because it is reporting what is certainly an inaccurate frame rate. I'm wondering how the audio sync held up in the DVDs you created.

There is nothing I can think of that you can do within Toast when it doesn't correctly identify the video's specs. Maybe there is something you can do in QuickTime Pro to create a file that Toast correctly reads. Otherwise you may need to use something else to encode the MPEG 2 video for use in Toast.

Since you are familiar with MyDVDEdit you should be able to change the 4:3 aspect ratio to 16:9 in the IFO and burn a new disc.

I think it might just be time to upgrade to Toast 10... someone told me that they had a similar problem in 8 and in 10 the problem didn't exist anymore.   Thanks for helping, and I'll check out the audio sync when I eventually get a DVD to burn properly!