DVDSP output multiple copies?

[MikieV]

Just completed my first DVD, based on an hour of video imported (via reference movie) from FCExpress.

First disc had no audio (I had Compressor place the audio and video streams in my Movies directory, vice placing the audio in my Music directory => so the "same-named" files weren't "chained"). Second disc was fine.

Making more copies of the corrected project has been needlessly long. First Build and Format generated a VIDEO_TS<3.9Gb> and an AUDIO_TS <empty> folder in the cache directory. Subsequent use of Burn command has "compiled menus" and "muxed streams" - which seems a waste of time, since no changes have been made to the project.

Can I just drag the VIDEO_TS and AUDIO_TS folders to Toast 6 - and burn multiple copies that way?

If I was at home, I would just try it!

Is DVDSP2 intended mainly as an authoring program, and not as something to produce multiple copies? Or did I just miss a simple setting?

Mike

[galactica]

yep
drag them together at one time, note how your disk is now named MY DISC just rename it to what you want and then burn.
you can then burn until your heart is content.

[MikieV]

Alas, no.

Toast will only burn the 1-hour movie "VTS_01_1", but will not burn the two menus.

Menu 1 is the Main Menu, with the "Play" and "Chapter Index" buttons - and a 30-second movie w/sound looping as the background => "motion menu" I believe DVDSP calls it.

Menu 2 is a screen with buttons linking to the chapter stops in the movie, and a return button to the Main screen.

Toast would not reproduce these two menus, with "generate DVD menus" turned off. When I selected the "generate DVD menu" item from the Advanced section of the slide-out "drawer" - it just generated the same type of menu it produces for VCDs.

So, if I want the fancy menus, it looks like I'll have to use DVDSP2, and keep the whole project on my drives until I'm finished making enough copies to inflict on my relatives.

Since that takes up a fair amount of disc-space, I may just go the copy disc route, and copy a finished DVD.

Mike

[dcsos]

Toast works for others..
Check your set up again
You should be burning a UDF formatted DATA DISC
not any advanced options.....

also maybe you can make a disc image of you project and burn multiples of it

[galactica]

right, the easiest way would be to make a disk image, or better yet, just burn one dvd and then make multiple copies of that dvd by puting the dvd into your drive and OPTION DRAG it to your desktop to copy the contents to your HD, then just keep burning that HD dvd and its no different than the master disk.

[MikieV]

Galactica and dcsos: Thanks for the help.

That was my problem in Toast 6 => I was dragging the VIDEO_TS and AUDIO_TS folders into the Video "My DVD" section of Toast, vice the Data "DVD-ROM UDF" section.

Once again, this site reduces my ignorance - a little.

Mike

[galactica]

yes ill admit it is a little confusing at first. You think DVD would be to burn a dvd (since thats how Toast 5 was worded)
but at least you figured it out.

[LisaH]

I have toast and dvdsp. Do I take my dvdsp video, select burn/format/to hard drive? Will that give me both a video_ts folder and a "quicktime" file which I can then drag into the data section of dvdsp to create multiple copies. My end goal is to take my dvdsp product with its menu and make multiple copies that will work on both dvd players and computers. Also, someone mentioned that you need to get rid of .lay and .layout files before you bring your video_ts folder into toast. Is this true?

[LisaH]

Can one have a dvdplayer and computer playable dvd from a .img file burn out of disk utility in the mac? Will it burn the menu as well? I'm wondering if all of this might be easier using disk utility or if tha method doesn't ensure a dvd player playable dvd.

[terryj]

LisaH,
DVD Studio Pro, when you tell it to format, it creates a proper Video_TS folder that has all your menus, and video/audio
in Mpeg-2 DVD compliant spec. You then can take that formatted folder, and drag and drop it into Toast and burn
multiple copies of it ( In Toast select the DATA tab, then select DVD-ROM(UDF) as the disc format).

You do not have to remove the .lay and .layout files from the discs. That is for and can only be seen by DVD Studio Pro.

If you happen to make an .img file of the formatted folder from DVD Studio Pro, then yes you can burn that to DVD
as a CD/DVD Master, in disc utility on the mac, and it should playback fine.

hope this helps!

[LisaH]

Thank you so much, Terry. I am burning via toast as you described and everything seems to be working. I have tested on PC and Mac. I don't have a stand alone DVD player but hopefully it will work as well on that. Hoping for the best. Cheers.