With iDVD no longer available for new Mac users, it is important to find an alternative if you still wish to make DVDs. Roxio Toast 11 is a program that has been around for a long time and used by many Mac users to create DVDs. It has a simple but powerful interface for burning video DVDs. You can customize it and add slideshows and data too. http://macmost.com/j-toast
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Hi, this is Gary with ‘MacMost Now.’ On today’s episode let me show you how to make video DVDs using Roxio Toast.
So iDVD is no longer available to new Mac users. So it’s important to find an alternative if you want to keep making video DVDs. One good alternative is Roxio Toast. Toast has been around for a long time, since the 90s.
It’s kind of a Swiss army knife when dealing with anything having to do with optical media. Burning CDs, DVDs, converting video, all sorts of things. Let me show you how to use it to make a basic video DVD.
So there’s several different ways to get into the video DVD creation portion of Toast. One is using the Assistant here and just going into Video. And it just shows you all the different options.
The main one here we’ll deal with is creating a standard video DVD to playback in DVD players.
You can also create one for a Blu-ray disc player with hi-def video but you need a Blu-ray disc burner. If you don’t have a Blu-ray disc burner, you can still use a Blu-ray player to playback high definition video that you record onto a standard DVD in this special feature here.
So let’s go to this one here. Now another way to get to it is to simply close the Assistant and then you can see you go to the main interface here and you have the different options at the top and you would go to Video at the top and then you would select which option you want right here.
So standard, DVD-Video. And then you would go ahead and name it. And then basically you can drag video right here to the middle. For instance, let’s go and drag some video off the Finder, right here and stick it in. And I can continue by dragging more videos right from the Finder.
Now you can also bring up the Media Browser which should be pretty familiar to you and you can go in and do what you do in other programs and bring up different things like photos and video and drag them from here into the DVD offering portion here.
Then you have your menu-style creation over here. So we can click on this and choose what type of menus we want. We can then change the Quality and other settings like Auto-play on Insert and things like that even adding some DVD-ROM on that, some data files to the DVD to use up extra space.
Now you usually get a lot more options than this because I’ve switched users and all the data for the different Splash screens are on the other user you only see the one here. But you can choose from all different backgrounds and all the different styles of Buttons.
And then in addition to that you can Customize and then drag your own image to the background. This means that you can really create menus that look different than anybody else’s.
So while iDVD has a lot more options in exactly how you put your DVD together, this feature is really kind of nice because you can kind of make a unique DVD with just very simple drag and drop and then choosing some things like Number of Buttons, different Text Color, Background Color, things like that when you play around with this.
Videos themselves here you can go in and edit so you can actually set start and stop points and even set Chapters inside of a video. So you can say set Manual chapters here and add them at certain points like right there.
And so you can play around and basically do some nice changes here to your videos in how they’re set, even setting the picture for that video to a certain point. All sorts of things to play with.
So then of course when you’re done you want to use the big, red Burn button. That will burn the DVD to this DVD writer right here, perhaps the drive in your iMac or MacBook Pro and then you create your DVD.
You could also, and I like this feature a lot, is you can save as a disc image. So that will actually put it as a file that’s a DVD on your Mac so you can test it out right from there and burn multiple copies of that disc image later on.
And yes, like with iDVD you can also create slideshows in Toast.
So for instance I’m going to go to the Media browser, this way, go into Photos and look at the Sample Photos here and select a whole bunch of them, select them all and drag them down into here and create a slideshow.
I can then edit the slideshow. Change the order that things are in. Also go ahead and set the duration, set the Button Picture for the button on the screen. All sorts of different things that I could do. And add a slideshow very easily to my DVDs.
So while no application is going to be a direct replacement for iDVD, it doesn’t have all the different features, it is a great way to create DVDs. It’s really simple and easy to use.
As a matter of fact a lot of people were using Toast to create DVDs even while iDVD was the primary tool and came with every Mac. So give it a look.
Till next time, this is Gary with, ‘MacMost Now.’
Hi, this is Gary with ‘MacMost Now.’ On today’s episode let me show you how to make video DVDs using Roxio Toast.
So iDVD is no longer available to new Mac users. So it’s important to find an alternative if you want to keep making video DVDs. One good alternative is Roxio Toast. Toast has been around for a long time, since the 90s.
It’s kind of a Swiss army knife when dealing with anything having to do with optical media. Burning CDs, DVDs, converting video, all sorts of things. Let me show you how to use it to make a basic video DVD.
So there’s several different ways to get into the video DVD creation portion of Toast. One is using the Assistant here and just going into Video. And it just shows you all the different options.
The main one here we’ll deal with is creating a standard video DVD to playback in DVD players.
You can also create one for a Blu-ray disc player with hi-def video but you need a Blu-ray disc burner. If you don’t have a Blu-ray disc burner, you can still use a Blu-ray player to playback high definition video that you record onto a standard DVD in this special feature here.
So let’s go to this one here. Now another way to get to it is to simply close the Assistant and then you can see you go to the main interface here and you have the different options at the top and you would go to Video at the top and then you would select which option you want right here.
So standard, DVD-Video. And then you would go ahead and name it. And then basically you can drag video right here to the middle. For instance, let’s go and drag some video off the Finder, right here and stick it in. And I can continue by dragging more videos right from the Finder.
Now you can also bring up the Media Browser which should be pretty familiar to you and you can go in and do what you do in other programs and bring up different things like photos and video and drag them from here into the DVD offering portion here.
Then you have your menu-style creation over here. So we can click on this and choose what type of menus we want. We can then change the Quality and other settings like Auto-play on Insert and things like that even adding some DVD-ROM on that, some data files to the DVD to use up extra space.
Now you usually get a lot more options than this because I’ve switched users and all the data for the different Splash screens are on the other user you only see the one here. But you can choose from all different backgrounds and all the different styles of Buttons.
And then in addition to that you can Customize and then drag your own image to the background. This means that you can really create menus that look different than anybody else’s.
So while iDVD has a lot more options in exactly how you put your DVD together, this feature is really kind of nice because you can kind of make a unique DVD with just very simple drag and drop and then choosing some things like Number of Buttons, different Text Color, Background Color, things like that when you play around with this.
Videos themselves here you can go in and edit so you can actually set start and stop points and even set Chapters inside of a video. So you can say set Manual chapters here and add them at certain points like right there.
And so you can play around and basically do some nice changes here to your videos in how they’re set, even setting the picture for that video to a certain point. All sorts of things to play with.
So then of course when you’re done you want to use the big, red Burn button. That will burn the DVD to this DVD writer right here, perhaps the drive in your iMac or MacBook Pro and then you create your DVD.
You could also, and I like this feature a lot, is you can save as a disc image. So that will actually put it as a file that’s a DVD on your Mac so you can test it out right from there and burn multiple copies of that disc image later on.
And yes, like with iDVD you can also create slideshows in Toast.
So for instance I’m going to go to the Media browser, this way, go into Photos and look at the Sample Photos here and select a whole bunch of them, select them all and drag them down into here and create a slideshow.
I can then edit the slideshow. Change the order that things are in. Also go ahead and set the duration, set the Button Picture for the button on the screen. All sorts of different things that I could do. And add a slideshow very easily to my DVDs.
So while no application is going to be a direct replacement for iDVD, it doesn’t have all the different features, it is a great way to create DVDs. It’s really simple and easy to use.
As a matter of fact a lot of people were using Toast to create DVDs even while iDVD was the primary tool and came with every Mac. So give it a look.
Till next time, this is Gary with, ‘MacMost Now.’
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Nice Video! But what about iWeb? I have a 2012 Mac Mini without iDVD and iWeb? Are there any other good Apps for creating Websites?
I do not recommend using an “app” to create web sites. See episodes 565-567.
So, why do you think Apple not going to use iDVD anymore?
They aren’t. iDVD is not included with new Macs, and hasn’t been for some time. iDVD came with iLife 11, but iLife 11 no longer exists as Apple doesn’t sell boxed software anymore. Three apps from iLife 11 can be bought in the Mac App Store, but iDVD and iWeb cannot. They cannot be downloaded from anywhere from Apple. And Apple has started selling Macs without optical drives (Mac mini, MacBook Air). Even with iLife 11, iDVD was only included as the same old version from iLife 09. The box even said: “iMovie, iPhoto, GarageBand” and didn’t mention iDVD.
Gary, thanks for this great coverage for Toast!!!! You do such a great job. Have you ever considered a biography video of yourself?……what you did before and how you got started with MacMost.
You can always check out my short written bio at http://garyrosenzweig.com
Thanks Gary, I will……thanks again for all the great videos.
Gary
Long time fan, first time question. My future son in law just went to Kuwait for a year. He has no room for stacks of his movies. I have a Mac and want to copy his DVDs onto his HD. He has a Windows laptop. I am having no luck copying the DVDs from the Mac to the HD. It is a brand new HD from Seagate, and Mac/Windows friendly. I was opened for use with both. HELP! Thanks in advance. PS keep up the excellent work!
Gary, I understand that even though the DVDs are his own and it is his HD, it is against the law to copy the movies. I figured a working copy would be ok. Apparently not. Sorry for any inconveince from this post.
I think what you want is episode 492: http://macmost.com/importing-dvd-video.html