I just bought one of those d2 lacie firewire dvd burners which can handle about any format cd or dvd. Well I was playing around with a DVD - RW and I did a test burn with toast 5 lite. Then I used the erase feature of toast 5 lite and my disk no longer shows up under disk info. It seems like I ruined it. Anyone know why or how this happened. I'm using Mac OS 10.1.5 but will upgrade to panther once I back up my files. Then I should be able to use Toast 6.
Also, does anyone have any experience with this CaptyDVD software. It seems a little slow and non-intuitive. I successfully burned a small test dvd movie onto a dvd-rw with this software but it took forever for the 20sec of video to burn on there. I know I'll normally burn standard NTSC for DVD onto DVD -R where the speed will be faster but man is this slow. Will toast be any faster? I'm running a 400 MHz iMac DV/SE slot loading. The CaptyDVD software says it doesn't support G3 computers...only G4's because of the time it takes to encode MPEG-2 video. This seems very strange to me since Apple has been putting DVD burners in their G3 ibooks for years.
So I guess the question is what is the length of time I should be able to burn a 1 hour video to DVD - R if this drive is 4x1x12x with any software? Assume that I have exported the video from iMovie in the correct format. Also what format should I export the movie in? I tried the iDVD option and that worked but took forever.
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