Toast 8 - Mini Disk(TS Folder) to DVD

[SOF 7]

Help. I bought the LaCie external burner so I could put my Sony Cam's mini disks on my hard drive to burn longer than 30 minute DVD's. I can only drag one TS Folder to the TS Section in the burning menu. I tried multiple folders in the DVD-Video section, but the burns are filled with glitches, skipping all over the place. I have Toast 8.0.3.

[SOF 7]

11/03/07 - I tried with some Sony disks this morning, and now it stops converting at 99%. Been working on this for a week now. I have a recording studio, and have only had less than 10 bad audio burns in 7 years, with thousands of CD's. I'm about ready to leave video to the video guys.

 

Also, I'm thinking this new LaCie burner might be bad. I'm using the new Lightscribe portable. I noticed on Apple's web site that the LaCie burner got a few bad reviews.

 

Thanks again for the help. This worked to burn, but still has the clitches...lot's of skipping. I have a feeling it's because we used TDK disks in our Song Camera. Will try again will some of our old Sony Disks.

[tsantee]

11/03/07 - I tried with some Sony disks this morning, and now it stops converting at 99%. Been working on this for a week now. I have a recording studio, and have only had less than 10 bad audio burns in 7 years, with thousands of CD's. I'm about ready to leave video to the video guys.

 

Also, I'm thinking this new LaCie burner might be bad. I'm using the new Lightscribe portable. I noticed on Apple's web site that the LaCie burner got a few bad reviews.

You can test if it's the burner by choosing Save as Disc Image for the Toast File menu. Then mount the disc image for playback in DVD Player. If it plays okay try burning the disc image to DVD using the Image File setting in the Copy window.

[gaper1]

does it only happen to Video_TS folder from the mini DVD? Have you tried Video_TS folders from other sources?

[tsantee]

Help. I bought the LaCie external burner so I could put my Sony Cam's mini disks on my hard drive to burn longer than 30 minute DVD's. I can only drag one TS Folder to the TS Section in the burning menu. I tried multiple folders in the DVD-Video section, but the burns are filled with glitches, skipping all over the place. I have Toast 8.0.3.

That's not how to do it. Insert the disc from the camcorder and choose DVD with the top button of the Toast Media Browser. Choose DVD Video as the format in the Toast window (not DVD video from VIDEO_TS). Drag the titles from the Media Browser to the Video window. Toast extracts the MPEGs from the disc. Do the same with other discs. Now set up the menu the way you want and burn your DVD (or choose Save as Disc Image).

[SOF 7]

That's not how to do it. Insert the disc from the camcorder and choose DVD with the top button of the Toast Media Browser. Choose DVD Video as the format in the Toast window (not DVD video from VIDEO_TS). Drag the titles from the Media Browser to the Video window. Toast extracts the MPEGs from the disc. Do the same with other discs. Now set up the menu the way you want and burn your DVD (or choose Save as Disc Image).

 

Thanks for the input. I've tried 3 times, with different disks, and I keep getting an error message as follows:

 

Could not record the disk because a file couldn't be found. Result code= -43

 

I tried to follow your instructions. If I'm interpreting "Media Browser" correctly, I double clicked on the disk that shows up on the desktop, and dragged the TS folder from inside the disk. The file goes in right away(2 seconds). I am not dragging the file to my hard drive, so it appears that I'm really not getting the video file into Toast. Only a file shortcut.

 

I appreciate your help. I've seen you helping lots of other people.

[tsantee]

Don't drag anything from the desktop into Toast to do this. Insert the disc. If you don't see the separate Media Browser window in Toast then choose Show Media Browser from the Windows menu.

 

Click on the browser's top button and choose DVD. In a couple of seconds something will appear in the browser window. If you know you want all the videos that are on that disc, just select what appears and either drag it to the Video window (with DVD video selected as the format) or click the "+" key. If you want to choose specific titles that are on the disc, use the button that's below the DVD button to access the titles level. You'll then see a list of each title that's on the disc.

 

If you're doing this correctly you'll see a window indicating that Toast is extracting the MPEG file from the disc's VIDEO_TS folder and writing it to the Roxio Converted Items folder. You repeat this process for each disc that has video you want to include on your DVD.

 

Note that the default preference in Toast is to automatically empty the converted items folder when quitting Toast. Either change that preference or make sure you don't quit Toast if you still plan to use those extracted clips.

[SOF 7]

does it only happen to Video_TS folder from the mini DVD? Have you tried Video_TS folders from other sources?

 

Haven't tested other Video_TS folders, because they are so large from regular 2 hour DVD's. Is there another source of TS_folders other than off of DVD's?

[tsantee]

Haven't tested other Video_TS folders, because they are so large from regular 2 hour DVD's. Is there another source of TS_folders other than off of DVD's?

Do not concern yourself with the VIDEO_TS folder. That isn't the issue. The issue is Toast needs to extract the MPEG file from the contents of your disc so it can use that MPEG file in authoring and burning a new video DVD. The only way for Toast to do this is via the Media Browser method I described.

[SOF 7]

Thanks again for the help. This worked to burn, but still has the clitches...lot's of skipping. I have a feeling it's because we used TDK disks in our Song Camera. Will try again will some of our old Sony Disks.

 

Don't drag anything from the desktop into Toast to do this. Insert the disc. If you don't see the separate Media Browser window in Toast then choose Show Media Browser from the Windows menu.

 

Click on the browser's top button and choose DVD. In a couple of seconds something will appear in the browser window. If you know you want all the videos that are on that disc, just select what appears and either drag it to the Video window (with DVD video selected as the format) or click the "+" key. If you want to choose specific titles that are on the disc, use the button that's below the DVD button to access the titles level. You'll then see a list of each title that's on the disc.

 

If you're doing this correctly you'll see a window indicating that Toast is extracting the MPEG file from the disc's VIDEO_TS folder and writing it to the Roxio Converted Items folder. You repeat this process for each disc that has video you want to include on your DVD.

 

Note that the default preference in Toast is to automatically empty the converted items folder when quitting Toast. Either change that preference or make sure you don't quit Toast if you still plan to use those extracted clips.