Mov Files On Toast 10. What Can I Do?

[jeffreyg_NJ]

I want to be able to use HD video files taken on a digital camera in .mov format. I know that I can burn AVCHD files to a standard DVD for playback in HD on my blu-ray player. My question to anyone with experience is: Is there a way to accomplish the same thing with files captured in .mov format? I am considering a new dSLR to replace my current dSLR and HD camcorder (to combine the bst of both in one device.) It records video in .mov files (not AVCHD like my camcorder.) Is there a way to watch these movies on my TV, in HD, without having to plug the camera into the home media system? Can I created an AVCHD disc (through some sort of conversion) with files originally filmed in mov format?

 

Thanks.

[tsantee]

If you have the Blu-ray plugin it seems to me you can simply add the .mov files to Toast with Blu-ray disc selected as the format and everything should work. Have you tried it?

[jeffreyg_NJ]

If you have the Blu-ray plugin it seems to me you can simply add the .mov files to Toast with Blu-ray disc selected as the format and everything should work. Have you tried it?

 

Thank you for the response. I haven't tried it, but I want to be sure we are talking about the same thing. I don't have a blu-ray burner so I want to burn the files to a standard DVD for playback on a set top blu-ray player. Most blu-ray players will read DVDs in AVCHD format. I want a simple way to be able to watch the movies I take on my camcorder in HD on my regular TV. I have no experience with any file type other than AVCHD. The new dSLR cameras (and some of the higher end compact ones as well) that shoot HD video as well as still images, record the video in .mov format. Since I have no experience at all with that format, I am trying to get information about how to handle the files before I invest in the camera. It is surprising how little the camera sales people that I have spoken to actually know.

 

Thanks again.

[tsantee]

Thank you for the response. I haven't tried it, but I want to be sure we are talking about the same thing. I don't have a blu-ray burner so I want to burn the files to a standard DVD for playback on a set top blu-ray player. Most blu-ray players will read DVDs in AVCHD format. I want a simple way to be able to watch the movies I take on my camcorder in HD on my regular TV. I have no experience with any file type other than AVCHD. The new dSLR cameras (and some of the higher end compact ones as well) that shoot HD video as well as still images, record the video in .mov format. Since I have no experience at all with that format, I am trying to get information about how to handle the files before I invest in the camera. It is surprising how little the camera sales people that I have spoken to actually know.

 

Thanks again.

It shouldn't be any problem for your setup to work as long as you get Toast's Blu-ray plugin. Toast can make a Blu-ray spec disc on a standard DVD disc. The only problem with that is you can't get as much video on a standard DVD as you do on a Blu-ray disc, but that shouldn't be an issue for the short video you take with a digital camera. Your video will have the same resolution and frame rate as the one shot with your camera.

 

An alternative to consider is getting a device such as the WD TV Live Plus which can play the videos straight from your camera's memory card, from a hard drive or from a networked computer. That way you don't need to make any disc.

[jeffreyg_NJ]

It shouldn't be any problem for your setup to work as long as you get Toast's Blu-ray plugin. Toast can make a Blu-ray spec disc on a standard DVD disc. The only problem with that is you can't get as much video on a standard DVD as you do on a Blu-ray disc, but that shouldn't be an issue for the short video you take with a digital camera. Your video will have the same resolution and frame rate as the one shot with your camera.

 

An alternative to consider is getting a device such as the WD TV Live Plus which can play the videos straight from your camera's memory card, from a hard drive or from a networked computer. That way you don't need to make any disc.

 

 

Thanks. I'll give it a try!