Using Toast to burn iDVD projects

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Using Toast to burn iDVD projects

I am a new user to mac and I need basic answers. I have iDVD 5.01 and know how to create a disc image. I don't have a superdrive, but I have an external burner which came with Toast Lite software. Although some people have said that they can burn directly to their external drive from iDVD I have had no such luck. I have created the disc image, but now I don't know what to do from there. Do I need to upgrade to Toast Titanium in order to burn my image onto a dvd. I tried to burn a disc image onto a DVD-R drive but the disc would not play on neither my computer nor my DVD player. I can open the Video_TS folder on the DVD player on the computer and it plays fine, but I need to know the steps to take to burn a proper DVD. I have only had my computer for a short time and it is my first experience with a mac so I need all the help I can get.

Posted on Aug 27, 2005 7:29 PM

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Answer 1

Aug 27, 2005 9:41 PM in response to Emily

Emily, if you have a disc image on your desktop just double click it and get the white hard drive icon on the desktop. Then you open toast and select DATA and see if you have the advanced option. Click on the advanced option and select the DVD-ROM UDF option and then burn the White icon. If you do not have these options, then perhaps you need toast titaniun version 6.

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Len Goff

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Aug 27, 2005 11:05 PM in response to Emily

In the Titanium version of Toast, you have to select the Video tab, then Advanced tab, then DVD-Video from VIDEO_TS. Drag the virtual disk image into the Toast window.

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Emily Author

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Aug 28, 2005 8:57 AM in response to Emily

Thanks for your help. I think in order to do what you told me, I need to upgrade to Toast Titanium because with Toast Lite I cannot select the DVD-rom UDF option. Once I upgrade and choose the advanced option will the disc image burn to a playable DVD format?

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Hui Cheng

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Aug 28, 2005 12:16 PM in response to Emily

Hi Emily,
here are the 2 methods you can burn a disk image with your external drive:

Disk Utility application
see Burning a disk image file on a CD or DVD in Mac OS X
Toast Lite
select the Copy tab, on the left drawer pane, click the disk image, on the main window, click the Select button to find your disk image, then click the big read Burn button.

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Answer 5

David Bale

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Aug 28, 2005 1:23 PM in response to Hui Cheng

A simple question!!

Why use toast when Disk Utility does the job and is sat in the applications folder for free?

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Hui Cheng

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Aug 28, 2005 3:05 PM in response to David Bale

Why use toast when Disk Utility does the job and is sat in the applications folder for free?

If it is just for burning a disk image, then yes, there is no use for Toast. But Toast does more than that, visit Roxio web site: http://www.roxio.com/en/products/toast/index.jhtml for more info.

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Emily Author

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Aug 28, 2005 3:36 PM in response to Emily

Thank you both for your help. What I am confused about is the actual meaning of disc image. I tried once to burn using the data/disc image tabs on Toast Lite but the disc was not a playable dvd. Since I am new to this I don't understand if burning a disc image is equivalent to making a playable dvd or not. Also, with Disc Utility, I can't seem to be able to select the disc image icon to burn. One icon is the disc image and the other says volume. What does volume mean? To make a playable dvd must I upgrade to Toast Titanium or is there something I am doing wrong on disc utility?

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Hui Cheng

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Aug 28, 2005 3:48 PM in response to Emily

Hi Emily,

We kind of misuse the "disk image" a lot here. We should have said "disk image file". When you "Save As Disk Image" in iDVD, you are actually creating a "file" for the disk image. When you burn using Toast or Disk Utility, you want to select the "file", I believe the icon on the desktop you are referring to is the "mounted virtual disk" of the disk image file. Am I confusing you even more ?? As I said in my earlier post. if you use Toast, use Copy, NOT Data tab. then select disk image and select the the "disk image file", NOT the icon. Similarly, in the Apple article, use "disk image file", NOT the icon on the desktop.

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Answer 9

Emily Author

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Aug 28, 2005 6:52 PM in response to Emily

Thanks to everyone who helped me! I successfully burned a dvd! I didn't need toast titanium or disc utility. I used the toast lite software that came with my burner. In toast lite I chose the copy window and selected copy image. I then dragged the disc image icon (the one that looks like a piece of paper with the top corner folded down) into the window and pressed burn. worked like a charm and only took a minute!

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