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- Jaline
I have a Mac and am using Roxio Toast Titanium 8 to burn DVDs. Everything is mostly fine, but I keep getting jagged edges in the final outcome of the video (when I watch it on my DVD player or on my Mac - doesn't matter). I have tried both PAL and NTSC.
Anyone know why this happens?
I'm just sick of trying to find a DVD burning program that comes out with a flawless video.
- lvl_130
is there a way to set pixel ratio? rectangle vs. square? or is that only in final cut? sorry, i'm not sure.
- PonyBoy0
can you adjust the speed in which it plays back? (kbps)...
... i learned the hard way (DVD after DVD) that when you burn video... you need to burn it at rate the player can play back... if you burn it at too high a rate (more kbps)... some players get all fusty and play back the video all choppy.
What are you burning?... DVD rips... video's you've made and compressed?
- Jaline0
I have no idea. There aren't many advanced options.
- czawada0
If your DVD player is Divx compatible then just burn the avi files as data on the DVD. Your DVD player will recognize the files and play them natively. This way you can fit like 6-7 movies on one DVD.
Seems like almost all new DVD players are Divx compatible.
- Jaline0
DVD rips.
Wait, I just found an "encoding" area.
Here are some options:
Average bit rate = 4.0 Mbps
Maximum bit rate = 8.0 Mbps(both can go to 9.0 Mbps)
Reencoding = automatic
Field dominance = automatic
Aspect ratio = automaticMaybe if I make the average bit rate higher and turn off reencoding?
- Why don't you save yourself the headache and see if it plays Divx files.czawada
- Jaline0
Thanks, czawada. I will try that later...
- PonyBoy0
yes! bit rate... that's what I was talking about...
... find what the original rip bit rate was and burn it at that (is this something you ripped from a DVD?... or torrent dl's... i believe you can examine a video file's properties w/simple video editing software including the bit rate it was saved or ripped at). Increasing the bit rate (I've found) actually makes the video a bit choppier as you're adding data that doesn't really exist...
... i'm no expert - i'm just sharing what I've experienced in both ripping and writing DVD's. :)
- Jaline0
Anyone know how to find out what the bitrate of a file is?
I have a few DVD burning programs...
- Jaline0
Hmm...I tried all of the methods outlined in this thread and none have worked yet. It's so weird. I've never heard of anyone else having this problem with Toast.
- ephix0
I like toast with vegemite
- akrokdesign0
is it really a toast problem and not how the video is rip or compressed problem? does it look good on the computer before burning it?
- 5timuli0
Use VisualHub instead?
- Jaline0
Back to iDVD, I guess.