User manual

Making Video Discs
Making a DVD or BD Video Disc
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To open MyDVD Pro
1 In Toast Titanium, from the Extras menu, choose MyDVD1SP.
F
or instructions on how to use MyDVD1SP, in the MyDVD1SP
application, click Help > MyDVD 1SPUser Guide.
Making a DVD or BD Video Disc
DVDs and Blu-ray Discs are both excellent choices for producing high
quality video discs with full menu navigation and Dolby Digital sound.
A standard DVD-Video can hold approximately 2.5 hours of video or
slidesho
ws. Dual-layer DVD-Video discs can hold approximately 5 hours at
an average quality level.
A 50 GB Blu-ray video disc can hold mor
e
than 9 hours of high definition
video in a widescreen format and up to 23 hours of standard definition
video.
If you have an existing VIDEO_TS folder that y
ou want to turn into a DVD,
you should use the VIDEO_TS Folder project. See Making a DVD From
VIDEO_TS Folders on page 41. If you have an existing BDMV folder that you
want to burn to a disc, see Making a BDMV Folder Disc on
page 45.
Note: Not all versions of Toast Titanium include Blu-ray
authoring.
To make your video disc:
1 From the main Toast window, click Video.
1 Choose DVD-Video from the format selection menu.
2 Click the Options button, if nec
essary, to reveal these optional disc
settings:
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Menu Style: Choose a style for the menu background image,
text, and buttons.
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Quality: Toast must compress video to fit onto the disc. Choose
the quality you want to have for the compressed video. Better
quality takes longer to process: