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[bill1745]

hi all, i have made a slideshow in imovie. i made a disc image of this using toast. when i launch dvd player i get the start of the first slide and it stops. if i click disc image i get a slide show running. it says edit but i don't see how i can edit it. would i be just as well off to stay in ilife and create my dvd and save to disc image  and then launch dvd player? i don't know what i gain using toast. what is the best use of toast? i have a imac g5.
thanks, bill

[tsantee]

Here's the process:
Make your slide show in iMovie. Either drag the iMovie project file to the Toast Video window or choose the iMovie project using the Toast Media Browser and drag it to the Video window. Choose Save as Disc Image. Mount the disc image and DVD Player starts up. Click on the thumbnail in the window and the slide show starts playing. Is anything here different from what you've done?

As for the difference between Toast and iDVD, they each does a very good job with iMovie slide shows. iDVD can use iMovie themes and creates beautiful motion menus. Toast keeps its menu simple but has Dolby Digital AC-3 audio which means the video can be encoded at a higher quality for movies longer than 1 hour in length. Toast can  also fit more video to a DVD than can iDVD. In your case the movie is probably far less than an hour in length so the choice of using iDVD or Toast to create the disc image is which one's menu you want.

[bill1745]

tsantee, on Aug 5 2006, 07:09 AM, said:

Here's the process:
Make your slide show in iMovie. Either drag the iMovie project file to the Toast Video window or choose the iMovie project using the Toast Media Browser and drag it to the Video window. Choose Save as Disc Image. Mount the disc image and DVD Player starts up. Click on the thumbnail in the window and the slide show starts playing. Is anything here different from what you've done?

As for the difference between Toast and iDVD, they each does a very good job with iMovie slide shows. iDVD can use iMovie themes and creates beautiful motion menus. Toast keeps its menu simple but has Dolby Digital AC-3 audio which means the video can be encoded at a higher quality for movies longer than 1 hour in length. Toast can  also fit more video to a DVD than can iDVD. In your case the movie is probably far less than an hour in length so the choice of using iDVD or Toast to create the disc image is which one's menu you want.

[bill1745]

tsantee, on Aug 5 2006, 07:09 AM, said:

Here's the process:
Make your slide show in iMovie. Either drag the iMovie project file to the Toast Video window or choose the iMovie project using the Toast Media Browser and drag it to the Video window. Choose Save as Disc Image. Mount the disc image and DVD Player starts up. Click on the thumbnail in the window and the slide show starts playing. Is anything here different from what you've done?

As for the difference between Toast and iDVD, they each does a very good job with iMovie slide shows. iDVD can use iMovie themes and creates beautiful motion menus. Toast keeps its menu simple but has Dolby Digital AC-3 audio which means the video can be encoded at a higher quality for movies longer than 1 hour in length. Toast can  also fit more video to a DVD than can iDVD. In your case the movie is probably far less than an hour in length so the choice of using iDVD or Toast to create the disc image is which one's menu you want.

thanks tsantee, your way is  very similar to disk utility. my problem was not clicking the thumbnail, hence no action! one more question please, the icon ending in toast is the disk image but what is the icon ending in ''disc''? should i save both on my harddrive for future burns? i want to delete some photos out of my iphoto library to ''clean'' it up.  thanks again, bill

[tsantee]

bill1745, on Aug 5 2006, 10:04 AM, said:

thanks tsantee, your way is  very similar to disk utility. my problem was not clicking the thumbnail, hence no action! one more question please, the icon ending in toast is the disk image but what is the icon ending in ''disc''? should i save both on my harddrive for future burns? i want to delete some photos out of my iphoto library to ''clean'' it up.  thanks again, bill

The small file ending in .disc created when you choose Save in Toast. All it does is save the list of items you dragged to one of the Toast windows. That list contains only pointers to the original files so if you move an original file then the item in the list can't find it when you want to proceed with burning. Also, if it is pointing to something in the Roxio Converted Items folder you need to change Toast Preferences so the converted items folder isn't emptied each time you quit Toast.

I only save a Toast project when I know I'll be returning to it soon to add more items before burning. Otherwise it is better to just Save as Disc Image and get things done. In the case of your photos, once you have created the disc image there is no need to save the Toast project and, therefore, no need for the .disc file. One caution: if you are backing your photos up to disc be sure to burn at least two copies and don't do multisession CD burning. I've read too many posts from panicked people who can't get their computers to read a disc containing their precious photos.

[bill1745]

tsantee, on Aug 5 2006, 11:53 AM, said:

The small file ending in .disc created when you choose Save in Toast. All it does is save the list of items you dragged to one of the Toast windows. That list contains only pointers to the original files so if you move an original file then the item in the list can't find it when you want to proceed with burning. Also, if it is pointing to something in the Roxio Converted Items folder you need to change Toast Preferences so the converted items folder isn't emptied each time you quit Toast.

I only save a Toast project when I know I'll be returning to it soon to add more items before burning. Otherwise it is better to just Save as Disc Image and get things done. In the case of your photos, once you have created the disc image there is no need to save the Toast project and, therefore, no need for the .disc file. One caution: if you are backing your photos up to disc be sure to burn at least two copies and don't do multisession CD burning. I've read too many posts from panicked people who can't get their computers to read a disc containing their precious photos.

thank you--bill