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Help A Future Filmmaker Out. PLEASE!!!

Your not somehow changing the frame rate when you are burning the DVD are you? Say going from a PAL format to a NTSC format or something equivalent? A change in the frame rate would be one of the few things that would cause the footage to actually slow down.

Open the file in Quicktime, go to window - show movie inspector. This will show the FPS (Frames per second). If it is PAL it should read as 25 if it NTSC it will be 29.97. A change in frame rate is about the only thing left I can think of as the m4v files look OK and Toast should be OK at doing the conversion for you.
 
I checked that and it read 29.97 FPS. I also should say that when I went to burn the DVD in Toast, it asked my if I wanted to re-encode all the movies to PAL format. It said that my TV mode was in PAL mode and not NTSC mode. I didn't know what to do, so I clicked don't encode.
 
Just a guess - But it sounds like what is happening is that Toast (and iDVD) is trying to create a PAL disc from NTSC footage. PAL works at 25 fps and 720 x 576 pixels. NTSC is 29.97 fps and 720 x 480. Trying to play 30 fps at 25 fps will slow down your footage by 16.67% and the missing 176 vertical pixels may also explain the green bar at the bottom iDVD was tryin g to put in.

Go to preferences in toast and check the audio visual tab. Make sure that it is set to use the NTSC standard and not PAL. When toast encounters footage of the wrong standard that it is trying to burn it pops up asking you if you wish to re-encode it to the right one (in this case it would ask you to encode it to PAL if you have your preferences set that way, which it sounds like it did ask you). Adjusting your preferences will allow it to burn an NTSC disc from your NTSC footage and assuming you have an NTSC DVD player it should then play correctly.
 
Another thing you might want to check is if the video file is actually choppy or if the DVD drive just can't keep up with the bitrate. Try copying the video files to the hard drive for playback and see if that solves the choppiness.
 
chv400 said:
Another thing you might want to check is if the video file is actually choppy or if the DVD drive just can't keep up with the bitrate. Try copying the video files to the hard drive for playback and see if that solves the choppiness.
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Yeah I tried that but it was still choppy. Right now I am burning the DVD in Toast with the preferences changed to NTSC. Thanks for the help! Lets hope this works!
 
I got it! I can upload all the videos to YouTube and download them with the Activity Monitor. I remembered that YouTube has a new feature where you can watch the video in High Definition. This could work! It wont be in its best quality but what the hell!
 
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