Toast 9.0.4 Crashes While Encoding Slideshow

[Jeff in Tallahassee]

I have been unhappy with the resolution of the slideshows I create using iPhoto and iDVD. My pictures are sharp on my computer (in iPhoto) and look great when viewed with AppleTV on my plasma TV, but after I burn a slideshow on DVD they are just OK. So, I am trying to improve things and just got the Toast 9.0.4 update and bought the Blu-Ray plug-in. I have a PowerMac G5 (OS 10.4.11), but no BD burner -- only DVD burner. I also just bought a new Sony Blu-Ray player (BDP-S350) for my HD TV and the Hollywood movies look fantastic.

 

My understanding from the Roxio advertisements was that I could burn pics/movies to a DVD in BluRay format, and they would appear as high def when played on my BluRay player. However, I can't make it happen -- can anyone help?

 

In the Video tab I select Blu-ray Video, and then drag my pictures (~ 260 shots from a 8MP camera) in, and select "best" video quality and "DVD" in the bottom right. Toast sets me up with 3 slideshows (why a max of 99 per slideshow??) and I can name them and set up a nice style etc. I hit the "record disc" button and it starts encoding, but crashes when I'm only 10-20% complete with the encode.

 

I'm dead in the water -- please help!

 

Jeff

[sknis]

I have a PowerMac G5 (OS 10.4.11), but no BD burner -- only DVD burner.

 

My understanding from the Roxio advertisements was that I could burn pics/movies to a DVD in BluRay format, and they would appear as high def when played on my BluRay player. However, I can't make it happen -- can anyone help?

 

Jeff

 

You cannot make a Blu-Ray DVD wihtout a Blu-Ray burner on your computer.

 

Are you thinking about a AVCHD disc? That is a standard disc that you can put HD video on. You can fit about 20 minutes of HD video on a AVCHD disc.

 

Your Blu-Ray player must be able to play the AVCHD format.

[firenhancer]

1. When creating a slideshow of pictures with any resolution to a DVD format, they will be down or up sampled to DVD spec. This is bydesign and hence the quality will not match the original resolution of actual image.

2. Slideshow in Toast limits to 99 picture per slideshow, this is limitation.

3. Yes you are able to burn your slideshows using a regular DVD burner to "AVCHD" Disc as pointed out by Steve but will require you to use a Bluray player that supports AVCHD discs.

4. Are you able to create a slideshow of the same set of images using DVD as a option?

5. Try saving the slideshow as a Disc image file first and see if that works

[tsantee]

Toast sometimes crashes when it tries to encode a photo image file (or an audio file) that has some kind of defect. I suggest looking in the Roxio Converted Items folder to see which image was the last one written. The one after that may need to be resaved by a Photo editing application (possibly as a TIFF.

 

The 99 slides-per-title is a requirement of the DVD spec.

 

I don't have Blu-ray so I have no experience with creating slide shows using the Blu-ray setting. I've wondered if Toast does that and how they look.

 

[Jeff in Tallahassee]

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3. Yes you are able to burn your slideshows using a regular DVD burner to "AVCHD" Disc as pointed out by Steve but will require you to use a Bluray player that supports AVCHD discs.

4. Are you able to create a slideshow of the same set of images using DVD as a option?

5. Try saving the slideshow as a Disc image file first and see if that works

 

Thank you all for your help.

1. Yes, my Bluray player says it supports AVCHD discs.

2. Yes, I can make a DVD format slideshow, but only by saving it as a disc image first as you suggested.

3. When I try to make a Blu-Ray video (format for DVD), it crashed. Then I tried saving as a Disc image as you suggested, and it crashed again. However, I tried a shorter slideshow (97 pictures), and it worked -- at least it saved it to disc. I burned a DVD, put it in the BluRay player, it recognized the disc as a -DVD and AVCHD, but then the screen goes blank -- no menu or anything, not matter which buttons I push on the remote.

So I'm afraid I'm still frustrated... any other ideas?

Jeff