Help- I can't understand how to burn a DVD from Toast

I just ruined my only copy of my personal DVD that someone made for me from a camcorder. I don't know what the problem was but I can't seem to understand the Toast 6 titanium. I'm having many problems. I just don't know how to even get the DVD on my hard drive, to keep it. Now I've lost everything and have this 200 dollar dual layer DVD burner that I don't even know how to use.

Can anyone help

 

Is the DVD disc still available and in good shape?

 

No actually the DVD I was trying to copy somehow only copied the intro to my personal video. So now I have two DVD's with just an intro. Nothing was saved. When I go into toast and look up that DVD there is only the intro. the rest is gone.

I'm going to practice trying to burn others. I don't know why Toast to me is not very user friendly.

Obviously I'm not very good at this computer stuff.

 

Don't panic, the situation may not be as bad as you described.
Try use Decrypter to rip and salvage the disc. Read the guide carefully and post again if you have problem how to use it or if it still doesn't work.
Good luck!

 

Just hazarding a guess here, but it sounds as if the original DVD you were given only has an intro on it. Is the original an R or is it an RW? Does the original play on a standard tabletop player? If it does, does it play everything that should be on it?

If the answer is yes, then either DVD Decrypter or Shrink should be able to rip it to your HDD since homemade DVDs are not encrypted. Unless there is something wrong with the original, for instance, the person making it didn't close or finalize the disc.

You may have to go back to the original maker and asked how the disc was made.

 

Thanks for the reply. The DVD-R that someone taped of me, now only works on a regular DVD player-what a relief it's not lost. However it no longer plays past the intro on the two computers: mac and PC.

I tried to copy/burn/record a bunch of television commercials I had done. I somehow successfully did that!! But for some reason I tried to copy just a store bought DVD, to see if I could burn it. It didn't work, only two images and no sound were captured. I had copied it onto my hard drive and then brought it into toast.

Do you have an easy way to tell me how to copy DVD's? I have an internal DVD drive, that does not copy disks, and I have the external-lacie that does.

Thanks for all your help. I spent 7 hours trying to figure all of this out. I'm in Japan not understanding the language and then now I'm at home not understanding the computer language.

 

If you are using the MAC for burning (which I think Toast is for) I suggest you post your problem in the MAC forum. Just scroll down about half way on the main forum start page. Most of us in this forum use PC software and don't know much about MAC burning. Much of it is similar but the way the software may work is different. The MAC forum may already have an answer for you. Good luck.

Jerry