Exporting TV to DVD with EyeTV and Toast

I've just made one of those little discoveries that I probably should have known if I'd read a manual, but which I'd failed to notice and has caused me a considerable amount of unnecessary activity.

When I want to take a television programme recorded with EyeTV and record it onto a DVD the normal process I go through is:

1. Set it to record (by one means or another).
2. Come back later and edit out the extra bits at the start and the end (and the adverts if it's not BBC).
3. Press the compress button - compressing takes quite a while.
4. Come back later and export to Toast.
5. Come back later and drag onto Toast and burn, which itself goes through some lengthy multiplexing process before actually writing the data.

Aparently, if I upgrade to Toast 7, then step 4 is unnecessary, and hopefully, but I can't find any info anywhere to find out, step 5 is quicker.

But what I hadn't realised is that I don't have to do step 3. The compressing to disk part is totally unnecessary. As long as you mark the edit points, the export to Toast function function will only export the bits you need.

That's it!