Operation Manual

Making Video Discs

Making a DVD or BD Video Disc

A standard DVD-Video can hold approximately 150 minutes (2.5 hours) of

video or slideshows and offers the best quality, as well as Dolby Digital

sound and full menu navigation. You can fit even more video than this at a

lower quality level. If your recorder supports dual-layer recordable DVDs,

you can create a DVD-Video with approximately 300 minutes (5 hours) of

video at an average quality level.

DVD and Blu-ray video discs can hold hours of high definition video in a

widescreen format, as well as Dolby Digital sound and full menu

navigation.

Blu-ray video discs can be played in a set-top Blu-ray Disc™ player or

PlayStation® 3.

Note HD video authoring functionality for DVD and Blu-ray

Disc™ requires the purchase of High-Def/Blu-ray Disc plug-in.

See www.roxio.com for more information.

If you have an existing VIDEO_TS folder that you want to turn into a DVD,

you should use DVD-Video from VIDEO_TS format. See Making a DVD

From VIDEO_TS Folders on page 112. If you have an existing BDMV folder

that you want to burn to a disc, see Making a BDMV Folder Disc on

page 117.

To make your video disc:

1 At the left side of the Toast window, click Video and choose the DVD-

Video, or Blu-ray Video Disc.

2 Choose optional disc settings:

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Automatic Encoding: Choose this option to use all video and

audio encoding settings that maximize quality and fit the most

content on the disc. Variable bit rate encoding is used for video,

Dolby Digital 192 kHz is used for audio, and aspect ratio is

determined automatically from the source videos.