Operation Manual

Roxio Toast 10 User Guide

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What is a Video Disc?

A video disc is a CD, DVD or Blu-ray disc that contains photos or video

files. Video discs are meant to be played in a set-top player, and can also be

used in a Macintosh or Windows computer with a DVD or Blu-ray player

and appropriate software.

Types of Video Discs

Toast can create many kinds of video discs—more than any other Mac

burning software.

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Video CD (VCD): This CD can be played in most set-top DVD

players. A VCD holds approximately 60 minutes of video or slideshows

and offers good quality, but menu navigation is limited. Playing VCDs

on a computer usually requires additional player software. This is the

best choice if you only have a CD recorder on your computer. See

Making a Video CD or Super Video CD on page 91.

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Super Video CD (SVCD): This CD can be played in some set-top

DVD players. An SVCD holds approximately 20 minutes of video or

slideshows and offers better quality, but menu navigation is limited.

Playing SVCDs on a computer usually requires additional player

software. See Making a Video CD or Super Video CD on page 91.

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DVD-Video: This DVD can be played in a set-top DVD player or in a

Macintosh or a Windows computer with a DVD player. A DVD can

hold between 2 and 5 hours of video or slideshows and offers the best

quality and full navigation menus. This is the best choice for playback

in a DVD player. See Making a DVD or BD Video Disc on page 93.

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DVD-Video from VIDEO_TS folders: This DVD can be played in a

set-top DVD player or in a Macintosh or Windows computer with a

DVD player. It is created from an existing DVD VIDEO_TS folder and

offers compression features to fit a large folder onto a standard

recordable 4.7 GB DVD. If you add multiple VIDEO_TS folders to this

project type, they will be all be processed in the order they appear in

the project window. This is the best choice if you have one or more

existing VIDEO_TS folders that you wish to burn as a DVD-Video. See

Making a DVD From VIDEO_TS Folders on page 112.