#ROXIO TOAST BURN DVD MOVIE#
Edit the movie in iMovie or Final Cut.My detailed process to get Dolby Digital 5.1 surround sound onto a DVD: If not for points 1 & 2, I wouldn't hesitate to use H.264. IMHO, I think I'll use m2v from now on because 1) it's faster to encode, 2) the files playback smoothly in QT or VLC, 3) the color depth might be a little better. I'm not sure a side-by-side against the m2v would show any difference. Any "softness" of the colors is not obvious. I added my ac3 surround track and went ahead to burn (yet another) test disk and it plays great. 264 file back into Toast it prompted me for the missing audio! I hadn't had it do this with ANYthing other than m2v, so this was great. But under real viewing - such as when I get this onto my TV and view it from across the room, I have a feeling the better colors of the m2v might win, if I can tell any difference at all. At high resolution, or if I wanted to grab a frame, the H.264 looks more detailed. Which is better? That's a really tough call. The H.264 image showed artifacts in dark shadows whereas the m2v image showed nice deep smooth blacks without banding. Colors were more saturated and overall the image showed more contrast. But the m2v image (viewed in QT) had some advantages too. There is definitely more fine detail, for instance in tree leaves and fabric textures. It was interesting: My first impression was that the H.264 image (veiwed in VLC) was superior. I compared a few frames with my m2v files encoded at the same bitrate. It didn't play well in VLC either but I was able to see images.
The 434 Mb file that appeared in my Documents/Roxio Converted Items folder had a ".264" extension and wouldn't open in Quicktime. It worked! I had Toast encode to MPEG-4 at 14 and 17 avg and max bitrates. But even m2v at the higher bitrate is a big improvement. Now if I could just get this working with an encode to H.264, all would be great.
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