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[BobN74]

I have a Quicktime file that I generated in Final Cut Express which I used to successfully create an AVCHD DVD using Toast Titanium 10.0.2 and a standard DVD using iDVD.  However, the AVCHD disk did not display menus on my Sony Blu Ray player.  Version 10.0.3 was supposed to address the issue with the menus, so I upgraded to that version and tried re-creating the AVCHD disk image.  The encoding ran for over 4 hours and completed nearly 60%, but then it stopped with an error message indicating that it couldn't write the disk image because of a problem with the source material.  Per the suggestion of Roxio support, I deleted all the Toast preference files from my system and user library folders, and I upgraded to version 10.0.4.  However, I am still experiencing the same problem.  I highly doubt that there is a problem with the source movie, since I successfully created a disk using version 10.0.2 and iDVD using the same movie.  I am using MacOS 10.5.8 on a 2GHz iMac Core 2 Duo with 2 GB RAM.

Has anybody else experienced this?  If anybody has any suggestions, please let me know.

[dexaqua]

I have a Quicktime file that I generated in Final Cut Express which I used to successfully create an AVCHD DVD using Toast Titanium 10.0.2 and a standard DVD using iDVD.  However, the AVCHD disk did not display menus on my Sony Blu Ray player.  Version 10.0.3 was supposed to address the issue with the menus, so I upgraded to that version and tried re-creating the AVCHD disk image.  The encoding ran for over 4 hours and completed nearly 60%, but then it stopped with an error message indicating that it couldn't write the disk image because of a problem with the source material.  Per the suggestion of Roxio support, I deleted all the Toast preference files from my system and user library folders, and I upgraded to version 10.0.4.  However, I am still experiencing the same problem.  I highly doubt that there is a problem with the source movie, since I successfully created a disk using version 10.0.2 and iDVD using the same movie.  I am using MacOS 10.5.8 on a 2GHz iMac Core 2 Duo with 2 GB RAM.

Has anybody else experienced this?  If anybody has any suggestions, please let me know.

I am having the same trouble. The closest I have come to the solution is that Toast seems unable to handle MPEG-4 AVC. I have noted other comments along these lines and have been trying to get to the bottom of it. When I switch to MPEG 2 it encodes fine and doesn't stop with the error. I am perplexed as this would seem to be a basic requirement? The original files are QT H264 movies so I would have thought that using MPEG4-AVC would mean they didn't need re-encoding but that doesn't seem to work.

Here is what I found on the Forum http://forums.support.roxio.com/lofiversio...php/t36461.html

Please post if you find a solution?

Edited by dexaqua, 03 November 2009 - 03:23 PM.

[pupdocdiver]

I am having the same trouble. The closest I have come to the solution is that Toast seems unable to handle MPEG-4 AVC. I have noted other comments along these lines and have been trying to get to the bottom of it. When I switch to MPEG 2 it encodes fine and doesn't stop with the error. I am perplexed as this would seem to be a basic requirement? The original files are QT H264 movies so I would have thought that using MPEG4-AVC would mean they didn't need re-encoding but that doesn't seem to work.

Here is what I found on the Forum http://forums.support.roxio.com/lofiversio...php/t36461.html

Please post if you find a solution?

I have a work-around that you can try.  If you have updated your original version of Toast 10.0.2, rename the Roxio toast titanium folder in applications folder ie Roxio toast Titanium 10.0.3. Then from your original install disc, reinstall the older version i.e. Toast 10.0.2.  Do your encoding here- you will find the encoded files in your "Roxio converted items" folder.  Check under preferences to see where it's located.  Also under preferences, under storage, make sure that these files are NOT deleted after burning.  Once encoding is finished, abort the burn & close down Toast 10.0.2.  Open toast 10.0.3 or toast 10.0.4.  Drag your encoded files from the Roxio converted items folder into the project pane.  Chose your menus etc and burn.  It will go right to multiplexing, then burn the disc.  Your menus and chapters will work and you'll have a decent product.  Not perfect, but not too bad either.

[ComPH]

I tried the work around, but it did not work for me. I now get three out of 12 chapters showing, and they are the wrong ones. Can someone tell me what all the preference and plist files are that could be corrupted, and where they are located? I'll try to clean up again. The AVCHD on BD media works for me with 10.0.04. The AVCHD on DVD media crashes with the same message as described in this thread .. bad source file... code 18771. This is the very same file that works with the AVCHD on BD media, so the message is misleading. I could burn AVCHD on DVD media with 10.0.03, but that is now crashing with the same problem as the 10.0.04. The 10.0.02 works, but it puts the chapters in the wrong locations, as in the past. I tried to delete the preference and plist files, but don't know if I got them all, because it didn't change anything, so if someone point me to all of them, I'd appreciate it. I am not sure what went wrong with my system, any advice would be appreciated.

Edited by ComPH, 05 November 2009 - 12:49 PM.

[BobN74]

I tried what pupdocdiver suggested.  I successfully encoded my video in Toast 10.0.1, and then completed creating the disk using Toast 10.0.4.  The chapters are now visible on my AVCHD disk through by Blu Ray player, but it did not utilize the chapters that I set-up in Final Cut Express.  Instead, it seems to have inserted chapters every 10 minutes.  Is there anyway to utilize this trick, while preserving the chapter markers that I designated?