Toast 7 disc too big

[willrob]

I started using Toast 7 to encode dv files (without menus). It appers to do the multiplexing faster than iDVD, but one of the disc images created was larger than a dvd-r. The image came out about 4.83G, which of course is way beyond what can fit on a 4.7 disc (4.4 is closer to reality). Am I making a wrong assumtion about what Toast does when it creates a disc image? My assumption is it should compress the footage to fit a dvd-r.

[chikanakan]

There are no limits on image size. It will make an image as large as it needs. It doesn't know if you plan to burn a single or dual layer, so it saves the image at the settings selected. You can add the image and then let Toast fit to disc. You shouldn't see any quality lose.

[Frobozz]

Since you're using Toast 7 just select that oversized image file in the Toast Copy window. There you'll be given the option to have the video compressed a little more to fit the single-layer disc. It is called Fit-to-DVD. You can read about it in Toast Help.

Toast created the image file using the default bit rate settings. Your video apparently is pretty long. You could go to the Custom Encoder settings and lower at least the average bit rate to get the encoding to fit under 4.38 GB in size for a single-layer disc. But the Fit-to-DVD feature is a great solution as well.