Types of Video Discs
Toast can create many kinds of video discs.
Not all versions of Toast Titanium include Blu-ray authoring.
• DVD: 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.
• Blu-ray Disc: This Blu-ray Disc can be played in a set-top Blu-ray player including some game consoles. Blu-ray video discs can contain hours of high-definition video. This is the best choice for high definition video playback if you have a Blu-ray player. See Making a DVD or BD video disc.
• HD on DVD: High Definition (HD) on DVD is a unique type of video disc which allows you to author HD video to DVD, for playback in true high definition. This gives you the ability to create HD video discs without owning a Blu-ray Disc recorder. Although you are recording to standard DVD discs with this project, you can only view the finished project on a Blu-ray Disc player. This type of project is ideal for creating video discs from your AVCHD camcorder.
• VIDEO_TS Folders: Use this project to create one or more DVD-Video discs, each from a separate Video-TS folder. See Making a DVD From VIDEO_TS Folders.
• VIDEO_TS Compilation: Use this project to burn more than one Video_TS folder onto a single DVD. The videos are processed in the order they appear in the Content Area. See Making a VIDEO_TS Compilation
• BDMV Folder: This is a Blu-ray video disc which is created by using a valid BDMV video folder generated by another application. See Making a BDMV Folder Disc.
• AVCHD Archive: This type of disc allows you to store high definition video from an AVCHD camera to standard DVD or BD discs without any loss of quality. See Creating an AVCHD Archive.
• Web Video Capture: Create a DVD-Video disc with videos captured with Toast from your web browser. See Making a video with Live Screen Capture.
• Live Screen Capture: Create a DVD from the video generated by using Live Screen Capture and include voice-over. See Making a video with Live Screen Capture.
• Toast Slice: You can use Toast Slice to easily identify parts of a video file that you want to keep, trim out the parts you don’t want to keep, and export the result as a video file or open it in Toast Titanium, MyDVD, or iMovie. See Editing videos with Toast Slice.
DVDs and Blu-ray Discs are both excellent choices for producing high quality video discs with full menu navigation and sound.
A standard DVD-Video can hold approximately 2.5 hours of video or slideshows. Dual-layer DVD-Video discs can hold approximately 5 hours at an average quality level.
A 50 GB Blu-ray video disc can hold more 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 you want to turn into a DVD, you should use the VIDEO_TS Folder project. See Making a DVD From VIDEO_TS Folders. If you have an existing BDMV folder that you want to burn to a disc, see Making a BDMV Folder Disc.
Blu-ray (BDMV) video authoring functionality requires purchase of the BD plug-in.