dhendrik Posted October 8, 2020 Report Share Posted October 8, 2020 Hello Forum, I have a question regarding using Toast 19 Pro. Unfortunately, I already had major problems activating Bluray authoring. Now I have the next question and I need help with it. Briefly to the situation: So far I have used Adobe Encore to burn a Blurays. Unfortunately Adobe is no longer developing this and I need an alternative. So far I have exported my films with Premiere Pro as h264 Bluray with 25/30 MB bit rate. I then loaded the files directly into Encore and outputted them directly as Bluray WITHOUT RECODING. So I need a program which burns my videos as Bluray WITHOUT recoding or authoring with a simple menu. Now I came across Toast and the colleague in the chat (before buying) had confirmed that this works. Unfortunately, when I try to create a BD, I cannot find any way to import my files (m4v and wav) in the program. Furthermore, I have not found a way to adjust the settings so that my video material is NOT re-encoded. The 25/30 MB bit rate should also be retained. Where can I find the settings? What exactly do I have to store in which menu? Which files can I import? Should I use TSMuxer to edit the file before importing it? It is important that the files are NOT re-encoded. If this function is not available, I will claim my money back, otherwise I will not be able to use the program. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JeffBDVS Posted November 24, 2020 Report Share Posted November 24, 2020 (edited) I've just run into this problem myself. Toast 19 Pro refuses to import elementary m4v and wav files from Pr that are BD-legal. If I export a muxed H264 mp4 file from Pr, Toast imports it just fine. But then it insists on re-encoding it no matter the settings in Toast. I have to see if the audio is the problem; maybe AAC audio in the mp4 file will work better. Edited November 24, 2020 by JeffBDVS Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dhendrik Posted November 25, 2020 Author Report Share Posted November 25, 2020 hello jeff, unfortunately i find it very sad that such a simple function does not work. I also connected the files to a stream with "tsmuxer" - that doesn't work either. the support says that a simple "passthrough" is not provided and the program cannot do this. so I got my money back because the software cannot be used! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JeffBDVS Posted November 25, 2020 Report Share Posted November 25, 2020 Sorry you had to do that. You may not have to give up on the software just yet. I uninstalled with CleanMyMac X and reinstalled a freshly downloaded version. I exported from Pr as H.264 Blu-ray with bit rate set to 10 Mpbs and 15 Mbps max. I muxed the video and audio from Pr in tsMuxer as a .m2ts file and used that as the source in Toast. I set Toast to it's default settings except I changed the encoding bit rate to 10/15 max to match my Pr export and I set re-encode to Never. I had a successful burn to disc image with no re-encoding by Toast. I'm going to try a 20 Mbps/25 Mbps max export and burn now. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dhendrik Posted November 25, 2020 Author Report Share Posted November 25, 2020 Hello Jeff, I always use the 25-30 MB option. What amazes me ... why does the support itself say that the program does NOT have this function? Apart from that, every experience with the support was a disaster. I wonder which theater the employees come from Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dhendrik Posted November 25, 2020 Author Report Share Posted November 25, 2020 Can you possibly say which settings you made in which menu? maybe a screenshot or the exact path to the setting? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dhendrik Posted November 25, 2020 Author Report Share Posted November 25, 2020 I just asked the support again. Actually, it shouldn't work. Or are they really that bad that they don't even know what their own program can do? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JeffBDVS Posted November 25, 2020 Report Share Posted November 25, 2020 I think it’s the latter. I’ll post some screenshots as soon as I can. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dhendrik Posted November 25, 2020 Author Report Share Posted November 25, 2020 This is really scary If you get wrong information even on special request, this is very worrying. The support could also get information from the colleagues. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JeffBDVS Posted November 25, 2020 Report Share Posted November 25, 2020 (edited) Screenshots: Pr export settings: tsMuxer setup. I changed the file names after export from Pr from OpenHouse to M4V10-15: Toast setup: Toast encoding settings: Edited November 25, 2020 by JeffBDVS Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Matt Caz Posted November 30, 2020 Report Share Posted November 30, 2020 For me Toast doesn't seem to like anything but m2ts files at 29.97. It refuses to accept AAC files so I use MKV Tools to convert to AC-3 and then TSMuxerGUI to convert to m2ts. I use OBS and save the recording as .mkv 6 channel so I can process it. No more re-encoding. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dhendrik Posted November 30, 2020 Author Report Share Posted November 30, 2020 Thanks for the information. This is not the goal for me in Germany because I work with 25fps. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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