Toast it?

"I've also tried to use Toast, but Toast doesn't compress."

Toast 7 replaces Popcorn, and offers compression.

Look for other software on versiontracker.com or macupdate.com

Hi,

I was searching through the forms & I came upon this thread. I have Toast 6 and have a question about compression. I am trying to create a slide-show, and my images are plenty large, but Toast seems to be making smaller file sizes out of them. The image quality is terrible. I have the setting on NTSC High but it doesn't matter.

How can I get Toast to stop compressing my images, I am capable of creating a disc that doesn't excede the max. limits for a DVD!!!

Thanks for your help,
Cosmo

Post your question on Roxio's forums: http://forums.support.roxio.com/

Templeton is correct about this being an issue for a different forum, but FWIW...

As I understand it, Toast 7 offers compression as an optional setting if you are recording a Mac Only disc. Earlier versions did not offer the option & even in 7 the entire file is compressed, not the individual images.

I believe you'll find the problem related to the slide-show program you're using & how it handles images. What is going into the burn file may very well be lower quality content than you think, so that is what you get whan you open that file.

Regards |:>)

Hi,

I am not using a slide show program, I am using Photoshop CS to work on my images. They are plenty large at 12mg a piece. All I am doing is draging the files into the "video" section of Toast and creating my slide show there.

Thanks for you help,
Cosmo

I can't comment on Toast 6 as I upgraded directly from 5.2.3 to 7.0, bypassing 6 altogether.

Out of curiosity, however, I'd like to know why your image file sizes are so outrageiously large if they are intended for slideshow output... or do you mean you are outputting to 35mm slides?

Regards |:>)

The image resolution for a DVD slide show is 720x480. Toast must downsample your pictures to that resolution so they can meet the video DVD spec. The problem with very high resolution source images is that the downsampling is extreme. You'd be much better off using Photoshop to downsample rather than Toast because Photoshop does this with much greater quality.

There is no way you'll be happy with how your high resolution pictures look on an interlaced 720x480 standard definition TV. But they can look better if you do the resampling with Photoshop.

I was not sure what size screen the images were going to be presented on and I wanted to make sure I had the best quality possible. I only have about 70 photos so filling up the DVD wasn't an issue.

Thanks for your post,
Cosmo

Thanks, this really answered my question! Now I know what to do before making a slide show using Toast. I ended up just going with iDVD to create my slide show. It actually looks very good, even on a large T.V.. The quality is great.

Thanks,
Cosmo