Hd Movie From Camcorder -> Imovie 9 -> Toast 10 -> Bd-R

[rseredyn]

Hi to everybody

 

I've imported HD movie from camcorder to iMovie9. I would like to make an edit of this video in iMovie, then to export keeping HD quality (1980 x 1020p) and then to make authoring and burning using Toast 10 with HD plugin (Toast® 10 High-Def/Blu-ray Disc Plug-in) and external BD burner (on BD-R Disk) to present for my family as "normal" BD movie using typical BD-player (Onkyo).

 

Which format have I use in iMovie 9 to prepare a file which will be recognized by Toast 10? (Quick Time H264?)

 

Rafal

[urraca3]

I tried the advise above by Digital Guru without any result. Using iMovie '09 (version 8.0.6) and my new Toast 10 Titanium.

 

When I dropped the IMovie file into Toast, Toast gave me the following message: "my video.rcproject" can not be used. iMovie '08 Projects have to be prepared for sharing.

 

 

I have tried lots of different file formats and sizes with this sharing option of IMovie. The video's look great, but once I burned the DVD there's no quality left.

 

I just bought Toast last week because IDVD and DVD Studio Pro gave me such bad results. I hope to find some help here.

[RockyBob]

Just save your iMovie project and select it with the Toast Media Browser to bring it into Toast. Choose Movies with the top button of the Media browser. Save your project to the default Movies folder on your internal hard drive.

 

Wow! That seems a lot simpler than what I did. (Export iMovie as a Quicktime movie -- 7 hours on my new MacPro!, followed by much of today having Toast process and burn). Perhaps you can shed light on my burning problem. Although I've got a 12x HP burner (internal SATA) and used Maxell 1-4x disks, Toast burned has burned all 3 disks so far at 1x. Sure would like to see 4x. Any thoughts will be appreciated.

 

Today I even inserted a blank BD before burning and Toast acknowledged that the disk could be burned at 4x. I then specified BD 4x, but same ol' same ol', 1x. It can't be for lack of computer processing capability (new MacPro) or RAM (6 GB) or disk space (north of 8 TB). Thought about firmware for the drive, but the HP website doesn't even acknowledge that they make a BD burner...

 

Also, I tried Toast Media Browser as a faster way to Toast movies. TMB showed movies that I've burned previously to DVD, but current movies in my iMovie Projects folder don't show up. So today I exported another movie (as before) at 1920 resolution via Quicktime and then Toasted that. The video quality was perfect on my 37 inch LCD TV.

[tsantee]

I tried the advise above by Digital Guru without any result. Using iMovie '09 (version 8.0.6) and my new Toast 10 Titanium.

 

When I dropped the IMovie file into Toast, Toast gave me the following message: "my video.rcproject" can not be used. iMovie '08 Projects have to be prepared for sharing.

 

 

I have tried lots of different file formats and sizes with this sharing option of IMovie. The video's look great, but once I burned the DVD there's no quality left.

 

I just bought Toast last week because IDVD and DVD Studio Pro gave me such bad results. I hope to find some help here.

You may be dragging the wrong item from the Toast Media Browser. Select Movies with the top button of the Browser. Then select iMovie Projects with the button that is just below the top one. You then should see thumbnail images of each of your iMovie Projects in the browser window. Drag what you want to the video window.

 

I'm uncertain what you're seeing or expecting to see regarding video quality on the finished DVD. If you are starting with HD video it certainly will look lesser quality when converted to standard definition for video DVD. But it shouldn't look much different from what you see playing other video DVDs as long as the video is less than 2 hours in length. One thing is to make sure you are not looking at full screen when playing the DVD on a computer display. Watch the DVD in normal or actual size. The best way to evaluate the picture quality is to view it on a TV.

[tsantee]

Just save your iMovie project and select it with the Toast Media Browser to bring it into Toast. Choose Movies with the top button of the Media browser. Save your project to the default Movies folder on your internal hard drive.