Adding additional files into a DVD

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Adding additional files into a DVD

Hi everyone.
I'm trying to make a demo reel to show it to clients, and the DVD, menus, playback...it all works great in the mac and the dvd players I've tried so far.

However, what I want to do now is to add extra files to the DVD that are not going to play with the movie, such as my resume, pdf samples and stuff like that.

So...what I'm doing is building the DVD in DVD Studio, then I take it to Toast and I add the extra files, either as standalone files or as a new folder in the root of the DVD. Toast burns the disc but then when it's done neither the mac or any of the DVD players I have at home recognize the disc as a readable disc.

I'm just wondering what I should do to add this extra content. I don't really want to add that to the dvd because the image quality on TV is not as great as I would like and a resume gets kind of hard to read.

Any suggestions? comments? ideas?
I'm just really a newbie when it comes to DVD studio pro. I deal with FCP and Motion every day, but DVD Studio is a new animal for me.

Thank you very much for your help.

iMac 17" Intel Core Duo 1.87, MacBook White 2 Ghz., Mac OS X (10.4.6)

Posted on Sep 3, 2006 8:44 PM

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Answer 1

Sep 3, 2006 10:11 PM in response to RockForChoice

Two things to try:

1. Make sure you're burning a DVD Video in Toast. If you burn a Data DVD your DVD players won't play it. The two different types of disks use different formats. How to do this may depend on which version of Toast you have.

2. You can add data files from within DVD Studio Pro. You get two chances, first you can add it using the inspector when the top level is selected in outline view. Check the DVD-ROM box in the General tab and then choose your data files. There is also an opportunity to add in the burn dialog after choosing Format.

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Answer 2

Sep 3, 2006 10:55 PM in response to Thomas Emmerich

Hi and thanx for answering.
I did what you told me in DVD studio pro and neither one of the 2 options give me the folder the way am expecting it. Maybe it is already in the new build I made with the DVD-ROM option selected and I just don't know what am looking for.
I also tried in Toast 7.0 making a video from video_ts with the added folder with the extra files inside but again I don't know for sure if it burned it.
In my head the DVD should be layed out with the 3 folders: video_ts, audio_ts and additional_files....and since I'm not able to find this third folder I have no clue what to do, even if I'm doing it right.

Once again, I appreciate your help, but I could use some more 🙂

Thank you.

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Answer 3

Silal

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Sep 4, 2006 3:44 AM in response to RockForChoice

Hi:

Maybe it is already in the new build I made with the DVD-ROM option selected and I just don't know what am looking for.
You'll only see the ROM content created by DVDSP :

- . . . when you burn the project from inside DVDSP
- . . . when you format your project as .img file in your hard drive, and mount the image.

In both cases you'll find the extra ROM content folder in the disc.

I also tried in Toast 7.0 making a video from video_ts with the added folder with the extra files inside but again I don't know for sure if it burned it.
In my head the DVD should be layed out with the 3 folders: video_ts, audio_ts and additional_files....and since I'm not able to find this third folder I have no clue what to do, even if I'm doing it right.
To do it with Tosat 7 you do not use the Video tab.
Go to Toast > Data tab > DVD-ROM (UDF) in the options panel, create a new disc with the name you want, drag and drop inside the VIDEO:TS and AUDIO_TS folders from your DVDSP formated project and then create a new folder with the name you want and drop inside the files you want.
Burn it and you'll be done.

🙂

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Answer 4

Sep 9, 2006 3:05 PM in response to Thomas Emmerich

'Make sure you're burning a DVD Video in Toast. If you burn a Data DVD your DVD players won't play it'

this information is completly wrong

there is is no such format as DVD Video for recordable DVD discs

a DVD video recordable disc is burned as a data disc using the UDF format

the prefered method within Toast is as follows:

select the data tab
select advanced tab and choose DVD ROM (UDF)
drag either an image file or the video and audio folders created in DVDSP
click the burn button

G

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Answer 5

Sep 9, 2006 4:56 PM in response to Gary Scotland

The point I was trying to make (badly though it was) is that a DVD burned in HFS+ format will not a DVD-Video make. If you burn a Video_TS folder to a DVD using MacOS Extended format or Hybrid format (Not UDF), it won't play in a DVD player. The Finder and Disk Utility can also burn DVDs and they automatically create MacOS Extended (HFS+) DVDs which won't work in a DVD Player.

Your preferred method apparently requires Toast 7. It won't work in Toast 5, which, by the way, still works fine even in MacOS X 10.4.7. In Toast 5 you choose Other->DVD. If you choose Data, it won't make a UDF DVD.

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Answer 6

Sep 10, 2006 5:37 AM in response to Thomas Emmerich

'Your preferred method apparently requires Toast 7'

no it requires verion 6 or version 7

The method I described to record in UDF format is performed in both current versions of Toast compatable with OS 10; versions 6 which I have and version 7.

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Answer 7

Sep 10, 2006 1:07 PM in response to Gary Scotland

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