Toast Titanium stalling on DVD copy

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bradhammer

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Went to burn a 14 minute DVD-R to another DVD-R disk (same brand), and decided to let Toast (the latest version) do the trick.

Started off fine, but the burn got slower, and sloowwer, and ssllloooowwwweeer. The move from :16 left to :15 left took a half-hour. Finally, I went to bed and awoke to find Toast still hadn't completed the task.

What gives? I can burn direct from DVD SP, but shouldn't Toast also handle the video? Yes, I have the SP workaround, but it's odd that Toast Titanium couldn't deliver. I haven't had a problem with the software before.

Advice welcome.
 
Did you save the file to your hard drive first before burning?

Did you try a simulated burn first just to make it go through the motion?
 
It's the first time I've seen Toast get "hung up."

I burned the initial DVD-R disk from the hard drive, then went to copy the information from this DVD-R to another (blank) DVD-R using Toast Titanium. I have been able to go direct from the HD to DVD-R, but thought I could "bypass" those original files by doing a straight burn from one device to another, thinking it might be faster and avoid formatting issues.

So, I'm left to do the "build and format" routine each time which is not the end of the world, but I'm surprised to be having this problem with Toast.

Thanks for your reply.
 
You might consider creating an image of the source-device. Direct copying between optical media is not ideal, as disk read access is much slower than from harddrive (disk image).

You could use Toast or Disk Utility to create the image from the source device.
 
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