You can also split the clip into "chapters" of 1 to 10 minutes or automatically use chapters that have been set in iMovie, Final Cut or Toast's Plug & Burn utility. For video, you can trim off extra frames at the beginning or ends of clips, set a particular frame to use as the button icon, and give a name to the clip, which will be used as a tag on the menu button. Next, customize each item if desired, by clicking on the Edit button. You can splice clips together in QuickTime Pro, iMovie or another video editor. Note that each item in the content window will become a button in the DVD navigation menu, so if you want some videos to be combined into a single button, you'll need to merge them before dragging into Toast. With all the content added, it's time to organize it and think about what the resulting disc will look like.įirst, put your content in the order in which you'd like it to appear on the disc, by dragging items up and down the content window. This DVD video project shows a few of the wide variety of source formats supported by Toast: Motion-JPEG clips from a digital camera, DV clips from a digital tape camcorder, H.264/AVC clips from a flash-based camcorder, an MPEG-1 animation downloaded from the Web, and a JPEG photo slideshow.
Photos dragged together, or in one folder, will become a single slideshow photos dragged individually will become separate "slideshows."
Use the Toast Media Browser to select clips, or drag in your files from the Finder. You can mix up DV files, movies copied from an MPEG4 (AVC) camcorder, video downloaded from the Internet (including DivX files), iMovies, EyeTV recordings, pictures from iPhoto or Photoshop, selections from other DVDs, and more. To add content, simply drag your video clips, photos or iMovies into the content window. Now that you've set up your basic project, you can start adding videos. Toast video disc options include the ability to add full-resolution photos on a photo slideshow DVD.
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Not only will they be able to view your video and photos, they can print the pictures too! The photos will be accessible when the disc is used on a computer, Mac or PC. This is a great feature for sharing photos with family and friends. Click the "More" button at bottom left, then check the box to "Add original photos" under the Disc tab). (You can also have a mixture of slideshows and video clips.)įinally, if you are making a disc that contains slideshows, you can choose to include the original full-quality photos on the disc as well. For photo slideshows you can fit thousands of images on a DVD. Generally, the less video you put on the disc, the better the quality. A single-layer DVD holds 60 to 150 minutes of video depending on quality level, double that for dual-layer. The Toast encoder will automatically adjust the encoding rate to use all available space on a disc. Choose Automatic, then "Best" quality unless speed is more important to you. Toast's easy-to-use encoding presets let you prioritize recording speed or video quality (click to enlarge).Īlso decide on encoding quality (bottom left). North America and Japan are NTSC, most of Europe and Asia are PAL). Select "DVD-Video." (Also select NTSC or PAL under the Toast Preferences "Audio & Video" tab, depending on your DVD player format. Then launch Toast, and click on the Video tab at top left. You can also use video files that QuickTime doesn't support natively, such as AVCHD, MPEG-2, DivX, EyeTV recorded shows, and TiVo transfers. You can use any QuickTime-supported video files, such as DV, AVI, MOV, HDV (1080i/720p), and MPEG-4. Import video from your camcorder with Toast, or organize your content files. First, determine where your source video and photos are coming from: direct from your camcorder (live or tape), from existing unencrypted DVDs, or from existing video and photo files on your hard disk, including iMovies. So how do you get started making a DVD in Toast 10? It's really quite simple. You can even extract and reuse clips from other DVDs, and use Web videos, EyeTV and TiVo recordings! (If you have an HD camcorder and the Toast High-Def/Blu-ray Plug-in, see our separate article on making high-definition DVDs and Blu-ray discs here.) You can transfer all your old videotapes to DVD, or import your home movies from your camcorder. Toast 10 Titanium is the total Mac DVD solution, with loads of movie-making features that make it possible for anyone to create great DVDs quickly and easily, complete with titles and menu themes.
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