Glitchy dvd play

[MPT]

I am trying to burn my Final Cut Pro 90-minute movie. I export to Quicktime, then burn using Toast 6 Lite that came packaged with an external Sony DVD burner (DRX-830UL-T) -- because my iMac DVD drive died.

 

My results are frustratingly uneven: I've burned a dozen discs. On two, the results are pretty good. The vast majority are riddled with halts, hiccups and ugly pixellation.

 

By the way, I have shut down all other applications and done nothing else on my computer while burning.

 

Can anyone help me burn good copies consistently?

 

My thanks in advance.

[tsantee]

Did you use Toast Lite 6.1? I think that is the latest version and it is compatible with Quicktime 7.x which was not the case with earlier versions. Alternatively if you have iDVD 5 or 6 you can use it to Save as Disc Image and use Toast to burn that image file to DVD. There also is a freeware called Patchburn that should let you burn directly from iDVD to an external DVD drive.