Problems burning my movie using Toast

Try the free update to Toast 6.1.1.

No, There is no need to export as full qiality DV. Toast will accept iMovie's "reference" movie that you find in the project folder.

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Where can i get this free update from?

From http://www.roxio.com/ of course ;-)

Lennart

Sounds like your movie is too big for the disk.
Cut it down to 4 GB and see what happens.

Hi woodie,
sorry to say but that is nonsense... a video DVD can easiely contain 2hours of video.. which is in dv codec 24GB of data, in mpeg2 (=DVD) 4Gb.......

another guess:
using an emac, have a look for free disk space! dvd authoring needs 15 -20GB of free space........!

Karsten

You might be right about the free space.

Is Toast 6 better than just using iMovie to iDVD? I have an awful time burning a half-hour slide show to DVD, and I only have Toast 5 which doesn't seem to handle video. I'd love to make the whole thing faster and simpler. Will Toast 6 do it? I'm only using Panther right so far. Can I jump straight to Toast 7?

Hi Nancy,

I do use both apps:
iLife - that is a very conveneint combo of products; everything is integrated; using every single app as it is meant for, it works like charm; iDVD, esp. the new one in iLife05, has terrific options (moving menus) or, some nice features to create very simple looking video-dvds.
iMovie is a very basic, but easy to handle edit app; I do own FinalCutExpress for more elaborated projects (or just parts! I use fCE for special effects, import them into iM)…
iDVD is dvd authoring "suite"; complex menus/structures; you can "imitate" different language versions of a project on one dvd (not really different audioo tracks, but like...); the new "structure" view makes you feel like working with DVDSP...

Toast7: VERY different! this is NOT a dvd authoring app, but some "burner" (in many meanings); there is just one single menu to choose from; no individual menu design possible; but zillions of options to create any "burned" media, from data (spanning feature!=> dividing BIG data onto many discs)), all kind of formats (PC, ISO, udf…); converting into different codecs; latest feature: video into divx-codec

speed? never heard of a comparison of both products, wouldn't make much sense, iDVD offers complex menus = time, Toast not; Toast offer codecs, iDVD cannot create....

yepp, you can "jump" to vers. 7 directly...

summary:
doing video => iM+iDVD
doing "burning" => Toast 😉

Thanks, Karsten, but I have been using iLife 4 all this time. I'm only having a lot of trouble getting the movie to burn to the disc. That's why I'm asking about using iMovie 4 to prepare the movie and using Toast to do the burning. I just let it run for 12 hours, trying to burn my half-hour slide show (with music) and it seemed to get stuck on Multiplexing and Burning. Had to Force Quit to make it stop.
I'm not trying to do fancy things, but I like a soundtrack, titles, a little bit of Ken Burns here and there...