Hi David, You don’t mention what version of Toast you are using or details of your computer & OS X which could help people to give suggestions.
Converting / encoding Video does take time & depends on your computer. You need a very fast processor, plenty of free space on your hard drive and heaps of RAM. Are you using Toast 11? If you do did you purchase the $19.99US Toast® 11 High-Def/Blu-ray Disc Plug-in? "The High-Def/Blu-ray Disc Plug-in for Toast 11 Titanium lets you author HD video content from AVCHD™ camcorders and EyeTV recordings on to standard DVDs and Blu-ray Discs for playback on any standard Blu-ray set top box or PlayStation® 3 game console. Toast 11 High-Def/Blu-ray Disc Plug-in is ONLY compatible with Toast 11 Titanium” <http://www.roxio.com/enu/products/toast/plugin/overview.html> I don’t know if anything I’ve typed below will be helpful to you or not; hopefully some of it might be ;-) You could perhaps try creating a custom profile with the settings you wish. I’m not near the computer I use for my EyeTV recordings, so cannot do a test for you. You can create Custom Profiles for video conversions, which allow you to customise any of the included presets and save your custom settings so they can be used in the future. 1. Open Toast 11, 2. Select Video, then Select Media > Video > EyeTV. In Toast 11 the Media Browser is always attached to the main window. 3. Open the EyeTV Programs window, choose the Recordings section, and select the video recording you wish to archive by clicking on it once to highlight it. 4. Drag it from the Recordings section of the EyeTV Programs window, to Toast’s Video section. Then, select what format you want to use in Toast. To create a custom conversion profile: Details found in the 'Roxio Toast 11 Titanium Manual' on pages 130-131 1 After you have clicked the red Convert button, select New Custom Profile from the Device pull-down menu. 2 The Custom Video Export Profiles window appears, a new profile is automatically added and you are prompted to enter a name for it. The name of the profile will appear on the Device pull-down menu in the future, so choose a name you will remember. 3 From the Format pull-down, choose a format to base your custom settings on. You should choose the format that is closest to the settings you want to use. 4 Make changes to the selected format by changing options such as Size, Aspect Ratio, Overscan, and others. You can also click ‘Advanced' to access additional settings for both audio and video. You should ensure that the settings you choose are compatible with the device you are going to use for playback. It is possible to choose settings that are not compatible with the original device or format you selected in the Format pull-down menu. 5 Once you’ve completed making changes, click OK and complete your project. You’ll see your new custom profile listed by name in the Device pull-down menu. This might help stimulate members who do burn EyeTV recordings to DVDs to assist you. I don’t as I run EyeTV from a Mac mini attached to my TV set with a external firewire Hard Drive attached to Mac mini which holds all the EyeTV Recordings and movies. Cheers, Ronni On 14/02/2012, at 4:40 PM, David Noel wrote: > -- Hi, I'm wondering if anyone has advice about handling non-720x576 > EyeTV video items when burning to disc with Toast. > > -- Standard items broadcast from all the local TV stations are at > 720x576 pixels. These can be recorded with EyeTV and burnt to DVD > quickly and routinely using Toast. I prefer to have everything on disc > at 720x576 because then the disc can be played on any Australian DVD > player. > > -- Some broadcast items are HD, High Density, at 1440x810 pixels. If I > need a copy of these, at the moment I use the Export facility in EyeTV > to convert them to PAL 720 x 576 4:3 QuickTime movies, writing them to > a folder. Then I use Toast to write them to a disc image on my hard > disc, and after checking the disc image plays OK, I burn this to a > blank DVD. > > -- This procedure usually works OK, but there are problems. First, > each conversion stage, to or from a QuickTime movie, takes a long time > (hours). I am wondering if there is a quicker way to resize these HD > items. Second, in the conversion to QT, there is usually some > distortion of the movie clip, with scenes pixellated, sometimes the > sound track gets out of phase with the video. Sometimes the corruption > is bad enough so that the later disc image stops halfway or will not > play. Sometimes Toast reports that it has copied a clip correctly, but > on playing the clip, it stops after 10 or 20 minutes as if it has > found the end marker, rather than showing the 60 or 90 minutes of the > original. Sometimes, not always, the pixellation and false end can be > reduced by again re-editing the original with EyeTV and again > compressing to a QT movie. > > -- I'm just feeling my way and don't necessarily understand what is > happening, so if there are ways to cut out or shorten the conversion > stages I'd be grateful for suggestions. Or for reducing the corruption > on compression to 720x576. > > -- Some broadcast items are at a third size, 720 x 404 pixels. These > can often be written to a disc image together with normal 720x576 > items directly, but sometimes this doesn't work. Then I need to > convert to a PAL 720 x 576 4:3 QuickTime movie as for HD, a very slow > process. Any comments very welcome. > > Cheers -- > > David Noel > > 2012 Feb 14 -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml> Guidelines - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml> Settings & Unsubscribe - <http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug>
