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[MT Jazz]

I just backed up a VHS Tape through my DV camcorder onto my G5 in iMovie3. The iMove saved file includes the QuickTime Mov. File as well a Media and Clips file. My goal is to get the best quality movie on one DVD. When I went to burn it on Toast 6, the output was over 4.5 gigs and would received a message that output would require two DVDs. I am not up to speed as to what the required files are put just need the steps to get me from QuickTime Mov. to one DVD through Toast6. I have DVD2OneX to compress the movie. What do I need do to get the Mov. converted to a format that will work with DVD2OneX to burn to one disk.

Steps and settings would be helpful since my vocabulary in video environment extremely limited

Thanks

[galactica]

instead of burning it to a disk, save it to your HD. this will save the file as a dvd image which you can then mount, and run through dvd2one

make since?

[WiseWeasel]

My guess is that would result in two disk images saved by Toast, and be unuseable for DVD2OneX. My suggestion would be to use one of the freeware tools for mpeg2 encoding, such as an older version of ffmpegX (the latest one might have a 30 day trial period before you have to pay) or something, or to purchase DVD Studio Pro, which will come with an encoder (and a hefty price tag). Then, you can use Sizzle to master the DVD if you don't have DVDSP. You also need to convert the audio to AC3 (I think ffmpegX might do that too). You will get better quality than what Toast encodes as well.

[galactica]

Ive done it before. your .toast will be greater than 4.7 gigs. you mount it and have dvd2one choose the VIDEO_TS folder from the mounted image. it cranks away for me....

[WiseWeasel]

That's good. I guess it doesn't limit to the size of certain media if it has no recordable media inserted. How's the quality/size/playtime ratio for Toast's DVD encoder? Can it be adjusted?

[galactica]

Options are only Standard and High
i could make better like you said, but this is nice for simple jobs

[MT Jazz]

Thanks for the responses, what is the process to save the file to HD? I have saved as a project in iMovie.

[WiseWeasel]

Launch Toast 6.x, put it in DVD mode, drag your quicktime .mov (as long as you saved it in full quality DV) to Toast's window, then choose "Save as Disc Image" from the 'File' menu. One thing about iMovie 3.x's quicktime export: if you choose to export to QuickTime with "Full Quality DV" chosen, it will downsample your audio to 32 KHz, even if the source is 48 KHz. DVDs require 48 KHz audio. The way around this is to choose 'expert setup' instead of full quality DV. In the next window that pops up, choose to save as QuickTime Movie, and set the compression to "quicktime movie - self contained". This will keep the original streams, and put them in a .mov container. See my new topic for more info.

[MT Jazz]

Thanks again, I will try it tonight and let you know how I make out.

[MT Jazz]

Thanks guys, works great, does use a great deal of hard drive space,

[galactica]

yea! but with what 80 or 160 gig hd that the G5's come with you should have plenty of room

[MT Jazz]

It has 160 ; ) but I have never seen so much hard drive space temporarily disappear. I converted another VHS tape yesterday and worked great.

Thanks again for the info.

MT

[galactica]

its just someting you get use to.
a recommendation might be to partition that drive, so that you can "initalize/erase" a partition frequently.

otherwise, if you will be doing a lot of write/erase/write, you may consider getting another drive so you can totally initalize that drive frequently.

I did this because i was getting such heavy fragmentation on the main drive it was causing lots of problems.

[BernieR]

another happy customer here! .... You guys are great!


Bernie