Does Roxio Toast Combine Different Video File Types To Mpeg 2 On Dvd

[missroxy]

I wanted to combine footage shot with 2 different digicams onto a blank DVD; from their native formats to mpg 2 to play on a TV & DVD player. Some of the files were .mov files, & the others were .mpeg 1 files.

 

I went in to roxio toast & loaded the movies files, & had it save as a disk image. I then inserted a blank DVD-R & burned the content

 

After this, loaded the DVD into my DVD player, & what happened was the DVD played the movie files that were .mov, but the .mpg movie files would show the very beginning of the movie file, then skip right to the next one & so on. It is like the .mpg files did not convert right, & I noticed when I briefly saw the start of the .mpg converted movie files, they were very bad quality.

 

I noticed that while burning a disk image of all my movie clips, roxio seemed to do it all very quickly, it seemed to go from one movie file to the next. When I am burning just .mov files, it takes longer & it does them completely.

 

I know there were alot of movie files, & I used a blank DVD-R disc single layer, could it be that the disc was not big enough?

 

does roxio toast support .mpg 1 movie files?

 

I often shoot video with my digicams, & just want to be able to burn the raw files, nothing fancy onto DVDs to watch on a standard DVD player & TV. My family is often quite eager to view footage right away after filming something.

[tsantee]

what about the audio options, I chose custom from the more tab, & for video I chose mpg 2, but audio had all these slider bar settings. I have video CD options checked, but will it fit over 1 GB or more worth of video files to a CD disc without losing alot of quality? I think I would rather stick to DVD for standardness.

Based on your initial post I see two possible options. One is to make a video DVD in which Toast does not re-encode the MPEG 1 videos and the other is to make a Video CD of only the MPEG-1 videos. A Video CD is burned to a CD so its maximum capacity is 700 MB per disc. There are no custom settings available when making a Video CD. Toast should use the existing MPEG 1 files exactly as they are.

 

Now I'll refer to making a video DVD rather than an Video CD.

When you attempted to make a video DVD the conversion failed. Therefore, it makes sense to see if Toast can include the MPEG 1 videos as is without re-encoding them. Choosing Never re-encode in the custom encoder settings window may make that happen although I've never tried it with MPEG 1 videos. If that works then the DVD player will upscale the resolution of the video during playback which may look better on the TV than if Toast upscaled them as part of re-encoding to MPEG 2.

 

Even if Toast re-encodes the video it won't change the MPEG-1 audio in those clips regardless of what audio settings you choose. Toast will multiplex the existing audio stream unchanged.

 

If none of this works then you can use Toast's Convert window to convert those MPEG-1 videos to QuickTime movies. Then add the converted movies to Toast for making the video DVD.

[tsantee]

I haven't done anything with MPEG-1 files for a long time so I don't know how Toast 10 handles those. They certainly would look poor if encoded to MPEG-2. You might try going to Toast's Custom Encoder Settings window and choose "Never" next to Re-encoding. Toast still will re-encode any non-compliant formats such as your .mov files but may simply multiplex the MPEG-1 videos. Most DVD players will play MPEG-1. Alternatively you could burn your MPEG-1 files to Video CD instead of to video DVD. If you don't see the Video CD option in the Toast Video window go to Toast Preferences and check the box next to Show Legacy Formats.

[missroxy]

I haven't done anything with MPEG-1 files for a long time so I don't know how Toast 10 handles those. They certainly would look poor if encoded to MPEG-2. You might try going to Toast's Custom Encoder Settings window and choose "Never" next to Re-encoding. Toast still will re-encode any non-compliant formats such as your .mov files but may simply multiplex the MPEG-1 videos. Most DVD players will play MPEG-1. Alternatively you could burn your MPEG-1 files to Video CD instead of to video DVD. If you don't see the Video CD option in the Toast Video window go to Toast Preferences and check the box next to Show Legacy Formats.

 

 

what about the audio options, I chose custom from the more tab, & for video I chose mpg 2, but audio had all these slider bar settings. I have video CD options checked, but will it fit over 1 GB or more worth of video files to a CD disc without losing alot of quality? I think I would rather stick to DVD for standardness.