However, if you change the overview to the list view, then you can drag the files into the correct order.Īnd finally: if you are using a custom image for the menu background, you need to find an image with empty space on the left side. If you close Toast and then reopen it to add the corrected file, you will need around 20 hours again.Ī small, but annoying problem: if you look at the files in the default Toast overview, you cannot reorder them by dragging. If, as in my early experiment, I discovered a problem with one file (no audio), once you have fixed the problem and re-add it to Toast, the entire process of re-encoding and burning or saving, will be reduced from 20+ hours to around 1 hour. Once you have burned a disk or saved it as a disk image, do not close Toast. My biggest discovery was also my happiest. There may be other programs that can do this, but since I already had Handbrake, I used that. If you remove this file from the Toast list of files, then run it through Handbrake using the AppleTV 3 preset, you will end up with a file that Toast can burn to DVD with audio. There seems to be no workaround for this in Toast. The first, and this I consider a bug in Toast, is that once all files have been added, if any say in the Toast overview that audio is "Dolby Digital", Toast will spend hours re-encoding the files, but the file with Dolby Digital will end up with no audio. I've also discovered a couple of things that can perhaps help others. I've now made two DVDs that work without problems. The whole process, as I recall, took about 15 minutes. And my first unsuccessful attempt (low resolution and no audio) required almost no encoding. It's a shame that Roxio provides so little information on what file format would be most efficient to use. Video Stream BitRate (Nominal) : 3 000 Kbps Number of Audio Channels.2Īudio Channel's Positions.Front: L R AACĬodec (FourCC).A_AACĪudio Stream Length.45mn 51s 680ms Video Stream Length.45mn 51s 680msīit Depth.8 bits Scan Type.Progr essiveĬolor Space.YUVĬodec Settings (Summary).CABAC / 5 Ref FramesĬodec Settings (CABAC).YesĬodec Settings (Reference Frames).5 Total Frames.68792ĭisplay Aspect Ratio.16:9 Total Stream BitRate.2 238 KbpsĮncoded with.no_varia ble_dataĮncoding Library.no_variab le_dataĬodec (Human Name).AVCĬodec (FourCC).V_MPEG 4/ISO/AVCįrame Width.1 280 pixelsįrame Height.720 pixelsįrame Rate.25.000 fps Video Codecs Used.AVCĪudio Codecs Used.AAC LCįile Format.Matro ska
TOAST BURN M4V MAC
* * * MediaInfo Mac is ©2010 by Diego Massanti. * * * MediaInfo Mac 0.7.36.0 file analysis report. Because in my first, unsuccessful, attempt, Toast went almost directly to burning, and took less than 15 minutes to make a DVD that worked but was missing audio and had low resolution. And I have no idea what it considers acceptable (which is why I posted here). The problem is that Toast decides what it is going to recode and what it is not. I have four files I'm trying to make into a DVD and in about one hour I can have the files ready in Handbrake. Handbrake can recode a file in less than 15 minutes on my computer. Use the original files.įrom what I have read and witnessed myself is that re-encoding is something very, very slow in Toast. m4v files you created as input for Toast if you re encoded the input files at all. So you need 2 pass encoding for decent quality for dvd burning, which is slow.Īlso, you should not be using the.
That format doesn't support crf encoding, which does give you good quality and speed. Esp for something that creates dvd compliant format video. In any case, there is no magic speedy converter.