Toast Titanium Burn at 1x ?

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Toast Titanium Burn at 1x ?

I'm trying to use Toast Titanium to burn at 1x, but it only takes 5 minutes to burn a 60 minute project.

I chose either a write speed of 1x or 1xDVD with the same results. (which one is better by the way?)

My media is Prodisc 8x media. I used to have a different media previously, and it worked fine (taking almost an hour to burn). Is it somehow always burning at 8x because of the media? This speed should be a max, not a minimum.

The whole reason I bought Toast was to burn slowly. I would like to burn them as slow as possible because I have seen some quality issues at the current high speed.

Project was created with DVD Studio Pro.

Thanks in advance for help. - Duane

PowerMac Dual 2.0, Mac OS X (10.4.3), 3 GB RAM, Toast Titanium, LaCie External,

Posted on Nov 29, 2005 8:30 PM

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Answer 1

Nov 29, 2005 9:10 PM in response to Duane Kubischta

I presume you are burning DVD-Videos (DVD-UDF). We use Toast for this purpose and select the lowest speed we can. This is partly determined by the media and partly by the DVD writer. We have two G5 2GHz machines, one a bit newer and therefore with a faster burner. This one can only write at higher speeds, typically 4X with 8X media.

5 minutes to burn a DVD video definitely sounds too short. A DVD video has to contain at least 1GB of data. If the program material is less than 1GB the system adds data so that it still writes 1GB.

Dual G5 Mac OS X (10.4.2)

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Answer 2

Nov 29, 2005 9:26 PM in response to Duane Kubischta

The whole reason I bought Toast was to burn slowly. I would like to burn them as slow as possible because I have seen some quality issues at the current high speed. < </div>

What do you mean "quality"? Do you mean the disks are no good or the video is not what you expected? Burning speed has little to do with the former and nothing to do with the latter. Error correction and verification should be controllable within Toast.

The burning speed is a function of your DVD burner's controls that are available and the prefs for Toast, which I do not use any longer. Try talking to the good folks and the Toast company.

bogiesan

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Answer 3

Nov 30, 2005 12:27 AM in response to David Bogie Chq-1

It has been reported that burning slower than the intended speed for any given media does NOT result in a more reliable burn, rather just the opposite. If you burn too slowly you can end up with more coasters. Something to do with reaction time of the media and size and shape of the pits.

Patrick

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