I will add one piece of advice. Do not take brochures at the show, your suitcase will be overweight and you will just be tossing it all out at the airport.
In this day and age with should have an app to send pdfs to our tablets and smart phones.
That is a standard aspect ratio, you are just turning the TV on its side. Of course you have to design your elements to be correct when the display is rotated.
DVD is not HD so you cannot deliver on a DVD, You need to use a BluRay or a H.264 file.
I have never made a master in Toast and I’m not saying that it will not work. You can make a DDP 2.0 file within DVDSP. You can burn that to DVD-R or even better write it to a thumb drive.
This will not make a playable DVD but it contains your complete DVD project.
Well you can export burned in TC in every NLE. I’m asking windows users if they know of any cheap software that has a good job and shuttle control and shows the clips time code.
The question is one only you can answer. Do that range work for you. On your camera it basically a 38-112 mm. If you need a real wide lens it may not work. There are no “Must have lens” there are “right lenses for the right” job lenses and lenses that give you a range that is useful for you.
FYI – Apple presets are horrible. They are way too high on the max and too big of a spread. 2 pass VBR takes longer but gives you a more acturate file size. Set the average to 3.8 and the to 6Mbps. Make sure you encode the audio to ac3 at .192Mbps.