problem archiving P2 content to DVD on Mac

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Barry A

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I've been offloading my P2 card to my 15" PowerBook and am not able to backup the files to a DVDR. I copy the entire content of the P2 (LASTCLIP.TXT and CONTENTS) over to the hard drive and try to burn from there. I'm using Toast 7 and every attempt gives me an "Illegal File Format" error. I have never seen this error message before using Toast.

I tried buring the files straight from the internal hard drive, as well as from USB and FW drives. I even moved the files over to a dual G4 and got the same error. I can burn the MOV files that are imported through FCP just fine, but not any of the P2 content.

Has anyone else had this problem? Is it a weird problem with Toast? It seems to me that a file is a file, but only the contents of the P2 are giving me this problem.

Any thoughts?
 
I don't know. I'm doing the same thing on my quad and no problems. What settings are you using in Toast?
 
I've tried buring them as UDF, extended Mac and as Mac/PC hyrbids. Again, the problem only seems to occur when trying to burn P2 content. All other files burn just fine.

This is the strangest thing I've ever seen and of course the Roxio FAQs and stuff have no help on it.
 
Did you try just burning it through the OSX Tiger disk copy function? I copy my P2 card contents to a folder on my harddrive and then insert a DVD-R (creates an "untitled DVD" icon on the sidebar) and drag the folder to the DVD-R icon. I click the burn icon and title the DVD-R the name I've given to the folder. I've done about 60 DVD-Rs that way with no problem.

-Bob
 
Barry A said:
I've tried buring them as UDF, extended Mac and as Mac/PC hyrbids. Again, the problem only seems to occur when trying to burn P2 content. All other files burn just fine.

This is the strangest thing I've ever seen and of course the Roxio FAQs and stuff have no help on it.
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Or try the first 2 options with data. mac only or Mac and PC and see how that works.
 
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