Questions On Making A Music Dvd

[holysmoker7]

I am still trying to create a music dvd. Is there a limit to the number of playlists and therefore buttons? Is there a limit to the number of text characters that can be in track names. Toast gets to the point of creating the disk image and/or burning a dvd, and then crashes. The last entry is for a dvd folder. I am using the latest versions of Toast and OSX 10.6.4. IS there a better combination. Can I have more than 20 songs in a playlist? Can I have more than 4 playlists? and if yes, how many of each? Is there any place to find this information? It is not in the manual. Thank you to anyone who has any knowledge as to why it does not work.

[tsantee]

Here's a new one:

 

Since Roxio's Customer Support appears to be non-existent (three days and I've heard nothing from them), I used the old menu I made years ago and have used to burn many successful music DVDs.

 

This is the first one I've burned with Toast 10 though and the first on my new MacBook Pro.

It plays fine on my Mac but when I tried it in my regular (Sony) DVD player, I got a message on the screen saying "Playback prohibited by area limitations".

 

?

 

Any light would be appreciated.

 

(I'm going to start seeking out an alternative to Toast. I've been using it since version 7 and upgraded with each new version. How disappointing to see there is no support from Roxio. I have purchased my last product from them.)

 

Best regards,

Barry

www.soundkeeperrecordings.com

www.barrydiamentaudio.com

I don't know what would cause that error because Toast creates discs that are region-free. If Toast is set to create a PAL disc and it won't play on a NTSC player. Check if Toast preferences are set to PAL or NTSC. Otherwise you might try a different brand of discs or use DVD+R if you are using DVD-R or vice versa.

[bdiament]

Hi tsantee,

 

I don't know what would cause that error because Toast creates discs that are region-free. If Toast is set to create a PAL disc and it won't play on a NTSC player. Check if Toast preferences are set to PAL or NTSC. Otherwise you might try a different brand of discs or use DVD+R if you are using DVD-R or vice versa.

 

Thank you for your much appreciated reply.

You are right, of course.

 

I checked Toast Prefs and found it set to PAL (don't know how that occurred).

Have reset it to NTSC and will do a new burn.

 

Best regards,

Barry

www.soundkeeperrecordings.com

www.barrydiamentaudio.com

[bdiament]

Hi tsantee,

 

...You might note that Toast now has some text only menus which may be worth trying with a music DVD....

 

What are the names of those text only menus?

 

Thanks for your help.

(Haven't heard back from Roxio support yet.)

 

Best regards,

Barry

www.soundkeeperrecordings.com

www.barrydiamentaudio.com

[holysmoker7]

I successfully saved a disk image and burned a dvd today. I had to use the raw aif files and input track names and cd names manually. Toast has not accepted just simply dragging a folder from iTunes, even if those files are aif. It took all day to input the date of each track name on 26 cd's, but it did work. I also dragged pictures onto each track and it took those and aded then with no problem. Thanks for all your help. I have solved my problem. Toast can have many playlists,probably up to 99, but navigation can get tricky on a dvd player.

[tsantee]

Hi tsantee,

 

 

 

What are the names of those text only menus?

 

Thanks for your help.

(Haven't heard back from Roxio support yet.)

 

Best regards,

Barry

www.soundkeeperrecordings.com

www.barrydiamentaudio.com

The text only menus are Arabesque and Splash. Remember that you can change the background by simply dragging a different image onto the sample that appears in the Menu pane of the window that appears when you click the More... button.

 

I successfully saved a disk image and burned a dvd today. I had to use the raw aif files and input track names and cd names manually. Toast has not accepted just simply dragging a folder from iTunes, even if those files are aif. It took all day to input the date of each track name on 26 cd's, but it did work. I also dragged pictures onto each track and it took those and aded then with no problem. Thanks for all your help. I have solved my problem. Toast can have many playlists,probably up to 99, but navigation can get tricky on a dvd player.

Sounds like a lot of effort but congratulations on getting to the final result.

[bdiament]

Hi tsantee,

 

The text only menus are Arabesque and Splash. Remember that you can change the background by simply dragging a different image onto the sample that appears in the Menu pane of the window that appears when you click the More... button.

 

Thank you. I tried them but neither (even with my own background) does it for me like the menu I created.

 

Tried using it with Toast 7 on my old PowerBook and it didn't recognize the menu either. Strange because it is just a clone of a menu that works in Toast 7 and Toast 10. I had to length the title line in Photoshop in order to fit the somewhat long title of this project.

 

I wish there was an easier way to customize menus.

And I wish Roxio though enough of their customers to reply to Customer Service inquiries. (Not even an automated "got you message, will reply as soon as possible"... nothing at all.)

 

Thanks again for you help.

 

Best regards,

Barry

www.soundkeeperrecordings.com

www.barrydiamentaudio.com

[tsantee]

You can have up to 99 tracks (maybe it's 98) in a playlist and up to 99 (maybe 98) playlists in a music DVD. Those limits are set by the video DVD specifications. I don't know about limits to track names but there is a limit to how many characters will appear in the window during play back. I don't know what that limit is. Toast will truncate names that are too long.

 

I cannot think of any reason Toast is freezing after completing the encodings. Since you are concerned about the length of the track names you can post some here ( or send me a private message with them) and I can test to see if they are okay. What menu style are you using?

[bdiament]

I'm having my own troubles making a music DVD with Toast 10.

 

Last time I made one was four years ago with an older version of Toast and an older Mac running an older version of OS X.

 

Now I'm on Toast 10.0.7 with a MacBook Pro running OS 10.6.4.

 

The problem is this:

When I made that music DVD a few years back, I created my own menu, with instructions I found on the web for using Photoshop.

The new music DVD I want to make needs a longer title line than will fit on the old menu I created.

So, I copied the file, opened it in Photoshop and modified the first text line on the screen, adding more "x"s to accommodate the longer text I need.

 

I saved the finished file and placed it in Home/Library/Application Support/Roxio/Toast DVD Menu Styles. This is where the old menu I created is.

Only thing is, when I open Toast, the new menu name isn't on the list of available choices.

What's the "trick" to getting it to show up?

 

***

I'm also having another issue.

I've saved the creation in Toast and it created a file called Equinox.disc (Equinox being the name of the project).

When I launched Toast today and opened the file, I get a message saying

"Equinox.disc" is an unsupported format and could not be added.

 

When I go into the file, the text I entered is there but the music file and picture is no longer there (and I suppose, needs to be re-added).

Anyone know why this would be the case?

 

 

Any help with either of the above would be much appreciated.

 

Thanks in advance.

 

Best regards,

Barry

www.soundkeeperrecordings.com

www.barrydiamentaudio.com

[tsantee]

I'm having my own troubles making a music DVD with Toast 10.

 

Last time I made one was four years ago with an older version of Toast and an older Mac running an older version of OS X.

 

Now I'm on Toast 10.0.7 with a MacBook Pro running OS 10.6.4.

 

The problem is this:

When I made that music DVD a few years back, I created my own menu, with instructions I found on the web for using Photoshop.

The new music DVD I want to make needs a longer title line than will fit on the old menu I created.

So, I copied the file, opened it in Photoshop and modified the first text line on the screen, adding more "x"s to accommodate the longer text I need.

 

I saved the finished file and placed it in Home/Library/Application Support/Roxio/Toast DVD Menu Styles. This is where the old menu I created is.

Only thing is, when I open Toast, the new menu name isn't on the list of available choices.

What's the "trick" to getting it to show up?

 

***

I'm also having another issue.

I've saved the creation in Toast and it created a file called Equinox.disc (Equinox being the name of the project).

When I launched Toast today and opened the file, I get a message saying

"Equinox.disc" is an unsupported format and could not be added.

 

When I go into the file, the text I entered is there but the music file and picture is no longer there (and I suppose, needs to be re-added).

Anyone know why this would be the case?

 

 

Any help with either of the above would be much appreciated.

 

Thanks in advance.

 

Best regards,

Barry

www.soundkeeperrecordings.com

www.barrydiamentaudio.com

 

Toast is still showing older menu styles from that folder on my Mac. I can't guarantee they all work properly with Toast 10 but they do appear in the list. If you have a widescreen video added then only the widescreen menus bundled with Toast 10 appear in the list. You might note that Toast now has some text only menus which may be worth trying with a music DVD. As for getting your modified menu to appear in the list, I don't have an answer. Roxio made quite a few changes in the menu formatting as well as styles and I don't know if that guide for editing menu still results in ones that work. If you still have an older version of Toast around you might use it to make your music DVD instead of Toast 10 if the menu style works with the older version. I do know Toast still looks inside that folder so there is no trick there.

 

The error message you are getting is very confusing. You are not "adding" anything when you are "opening" a project file. If you were to have an open Toast window and tried to add the .disc file to, say, the video DVD setting in the Video window you'd get that message because a project file is not a video file. But you should be able to open the .disc file and have your project appear in a new Toast window the way it was when you saved it.

[holysmoker7]

I have four hard drives on my Mac Pro. Is it permitted to have a copy of Toast 10 Pro on each drive - still only one computer?

[tsantee]

I have four hard drives on my Mac Pro. Is it permitted to have a copy of Toast 10 Pro on each drive - still only one computer?

I'm pretty sure it is okay. I think the license is for one license for one user on one computer. How many hard drives that one user puts it on for use on one computer shouldn't matter. In fact I sometimes recommend users keep multiple versions of Toast 10 because it unfortunately happens that one version works with some things and another version works with others.

[holysmoker7]

OK. I've gotten to the point that Toasts does all the encoding without crashing. But it hangs and crashes when it gets to the part where it is supposed to either burn the dvd or save it as a disk image - right at the very end, in other words. Checking the file for "Roxio Recovered Items," the last entry is a dvd folder that has lots of files in it, but it is only a few megabites in size. It should be close to 4 gb in size. Any clues anybody? TIA

[bdiament]

Toast is still showing older menu styles from that folder on my Mac. I can't guarantee they all work properly with Toast 10 but they do appear in the list. If you have a widescreen video added then only the widescreen menus bundled with Toast 10 appear in the list. You might note that Toast now has some text only menus which may be worth trying with a music DVD. As for getting your modified menu to appear in the list, I don't have an answer. Roxio made quite a few changes in the menu formatting as well as styles and I don't know if that guide for editing menu still results in ones that work. If you still have an older version of Toast around you might use it to make your music DVD instead of Toast 10 if the menu style works with the older version. I do know Toast still looks inside that folder so there is no trick there.

 

The error message you are getting is very confusing. You are not "adding" anything when you are "opening" a project file. If you were to have an open Toast window and tried to add the .disc file to, say, the video DVD setting in the Video window you'd get that message because a project file is not a video file. But you should be able to open the .disc file and have your project appear in a new Toast window the way it was when you saved it.

 

 

Hi tsantee,

 

I'm seeing the older menu I created too. It is just the new one that isn't showing.

The menu is standard, not widescreen. I'm only adding music, no video.

 

The error message is odd. I get it even with the old .disc file I made long ago. Happily, I have a .toast disc image file from that one that I can use to burn new copies. Now if I can only create one with the new menu. May have to write Roxio support on all this.

 

Best regards,

Barry

www.soundkeeperrecordings.com

www.barrydiamentaudio.com

[bdiament]

Here's a new one:

 

Since Roxio's Customer Support appears to be non-existent (three days and I've heard nothing from them), I used the old menu I made years ago and have used to burn many successful music DVDs.

 

This is the first one I've burned with Toast 10 though and the first on my new MacBook Pro.

It plays fine on my Mac but when I tried it in my regular (Sony) DVD player, I got a message on the screen saying "Playback prohibited by area limitations".

 

?

 

Any light would be appreciated.

 

(I'm going to start seeking out an alternative to Toast. I've been using it since version 7 and upgraded with each new version. How disappointing to see there is no support from Roxio. I have purchased my last product from them.)

 

Best regards,

Barry

www.soundkeeperrecordings.com

www.barrydiamentaudio.com