iEye Captain Icon    QuickToast exporting to DVD, SVCD, or VCD

EyeTV automates the process of burning to VCD or DVD, but there are several limitations to the method that is used.


Limitations of EyeTV Toast burning:

• EyeTV 1.8: Only for a single recording
• First frame of recording is set as thumbnail – rarely the one you want.
• Toast’s rudimentary scrubber for thumbnail images makes it very difficult to fine-tune exactly which frame you want.
• Only works for DVD, not VCD or SVCD (can be changed later, but is an extra step)


Continuing in the fashion of making your life easier… iEye Captain expands on these capabilities by offering “QuickToast,” which provides some important advantages:


Advantages of iEye Captain's QuickToast:

• Over EyeTV 1.8: Select multiple recordings, and iEye Captain will export all of them in one step, importing every one of them into Toast for you
• The thumbnail image is set to the MOST RECENT frame viewed, rather than the first one. This allows you to play each clip in EyeTV (or using iEye Captain’s play controls) to fine-tune exactly which frame you wish to appear in the DVD menu. (Please note that due to an Mpeg encoder issue, the frame may be off by as much as a second or two, but it is still a finer control than the Toast scrubber).
• Available for VCD, SVCD, and DVD.


To perform a QuickToast, simply select one or more recordings in the Recordings Pane of the main window, using the handy size calculator at the bottom of the window to see if how close you are getting to the capacity of the CD or DVD. Once you have the selection you wish, select DVD, SVCD, or VCD from the QuickToast submenu of the File menu.

If you have Toast 7, the DVD will be set up instantly for you.

If you have Toast 6, QuickToast will create a sub-folder inside the default export folder that you have indicated in the QuickExport settings. Each recording will be exported into this subfolder, and a little script is also placed into the subfolder to manage the burning process. When the export is complete, this script will wait until Toast is free (if it has been occupied burning something), and then open Toast, import the items, and set up the menu for you. When you are ready to burn the disc, simply click on the red “burn” button, and follow the instructions in Toast to burn your disc.

Once the burn has finished and you have tested your disc, you may safely delete the entire subfolder of the export, including the script file. If for any reason Toast was not able to burn the disc, you may double-click this script and it will set up the disc for you just as if the process was initiated from iEye Captain.

It is important to note that you can continue working in iEye Captain and/or EyeTV after QuickToast has been initiated. Even though you may see a spinning black & white indicator ball, just click anywhere in the main window to continue working.