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[kevss]

I have a DVD burned by my cameraman of video project we did from mini DV. Went to make a copy in Toast.

Tried in the Video tab. lots of problems.
First message says, 4 files are unsupported.

saw a large black triangle, VTS-01-1

Toast started doing, "multiplexing vts-01-1"

What is that?  

anyway it ended with a "could not record because of Mac OS error, result code=50.

also, want to ask, what is difference between choosing DVD Video and DVD video from TS?

So I did this in the Data tab and had no problems there. thanks.  but why ever use Video tab -- so many headaches.

[tsantee]

If you want to make a copy of a DVD (or a disc image on your hard drive) use the Toast Copy window.

As for the problem you encountered. DVD video is for encoding the video (if necessary) and authoring a new VIDEO_TS folder prior to burning the DVD.

DVD video from VIDEO_TS is for dragging in an existing VIDEO_TS folder to burn it to DVD. It is the same as dragging a VIDEO_TS folder to the Data window when you have chosed DVD-Rom (UDF) as the disc format.

[kevss]

thanks T.
never used the copy window, never even noticed it. Been using the data window so far.
Did not understand your second paragraph. not your fault.

See, right now, I just want to copy the Full DVD, so I'm not authoring etc.

Now for 3rd paragraph, on TS, then no real advantage in Video window. It seems a lot of these windows are redundant. no?

[tsantee]

kevss, on Jun 20 2006, 05:44 PM, said:

thanks T.
never used the copy window, never even noticed it. Been using the data window so far.
Did not understand your second paragraph. not your fault.

See, right now, I just want to copy the Full DVD, so I'm not authoring etc.

Now for 3rd paragraph, on TS, then no real advantage in Video window. It seems a lot of these windows are redundant. no?

Yes there are some redundancies in Toast. But here is what I recommend:
To copy an existing disc or disc image use the copy window.
To burn an existing VIDEO_TS folder to a DVD use either the DVD Video from VIDEO_TS setting in the video window (especially if it will need shrinking to fit a single-layer disc) or use the DVD-Rom (UDF) setting in the Data window.
To create a new DVD menu and/or encode other kinds of video to a video DVD use the DVD video setting in the video window.

[kevss]

thanks T.
don't understand much of that, but may down the road. It seems to me the data tab is overall easiest.