Greetings! Quite new at this, but managed to save a MAc osX iMovie as a quicktime .mov file, dropped it into the toast 5 dvd window & burned a dvd that actually played in a 3 year old Panasonic player. I did'nt think it would work, because toast say it wants a _TS file. my QUESTION is this: What are the chances that disc's made this way ( using the quicktime .mov file )will be compatable in most DVD players, or did toast do a conversion thing and I needen't be concerned? Thanks
put the dvd back in the computer and see what format its in.. toast may have converted it to video_ts file, it also should've made that to a dvd rom (udf) that's why it would play in a 3 yr old player
That was such an obvious solution, thanks! Universal Disk Format is what it shows, (the ufd you referred to) and the same description comes up with a commercial DVD, so I guess I'm ok?
Did some more investigating; the Toast created DVD does contain both video_ts and audio_ts files. Total file on the DVD is 381 meg(play time is 5:37), comparred to the .mov file I dropped into toast which was 1.13 gig, I did some math and this appears to be about a 3:1 ratio, and the most I could fit on a DVD at this rate would be about 69 minutes. I'm also concerned that if I try to drop a 4.4 gig or larger file into Toast it might kick it back due to size. So, I'm wondering if I should find & use a compression format app first that will work with iMovie or Quicktime, before Toast? Quicktime does allow many export settings including MPEG-4, DV steram, the default: Quicktime movie, AVI and several others. I assume what I may need is MPEG-2?
Those issues asside, can you point me to where I can learn more about quicktime formats, and the MPEG formats? I did read (& saved) the 'rip-compress- burn' doc you suggested. thanks
