Toast tidbit.

[AntnyMD]

I never knew this ... from June 2003 MacAddict magazine.

Maybe you're a high-end videographer who wants to burn progressive-scan (aka noninterlaced) video to a Video CD. Toast does in fact support your endeavor, but this ability is well hidden.

Go to the Other menu and select Video CD. When you're dragging your movie to the Toast window, press Option. In the Toast Video CD Options dialog that appears, you'll see a menu you've probably never spotted before: the Progressive menu, which provides high-end settings only those of you with fancy camcorders capable of progressive scan video can utilize. You'll also see a new option under the Format menu: NTSC (23.976 fps). Most of you don't need these high-end options. But it's there for those four -- uh, we mean few -- of you who do.



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Except for their smarmy attitude, and all this "high end" business, the bottom line is you can use Toast to make proper NTSC Film VCDs!

[ZeroSix]

that is awesome... i never knew that

[eigna]

has anyone tried this - because it doesn't work for me (i'm talking about the 23.98fps format - or the progressive option - i don't have those) just checking to see if it's just me that's having this problem

-angie

[AntnyMD]

I think your source Quicktime MOV has to be exactly 24 fps for Toast to work with it. The VCD spec for NTSC Film VCDs is 24 fps.


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Actually now that I think of it, back when I made NTSC Film VCDs on a PC, the source material was all 23.976 ... I havent tried it yet, since I make more VCDs on a Terapin recorder.