The Mac has long been capable of burning CDs and DVDs—both data and media discs. Yet Apple has shied away from supporting certain disc formats—Video CDs, music DVDs, and, most recently, Blu-ray, for example. When you want to burn such discs, the time-tested advice you’re most likely to hear is “turn to Toast.”As with the past several versions, does far more than just burn discs (for those interesting in upgrading from earlier versions, be sure to visit Roxio's ). Toast is also a tool for converting media; creating disc images; extracting video from media, devices, and the Web; and streaming content over the Internet. Toast 10 specifically adds the ability to extract clips from unprotected DVDs, save and convert Web-based Flash video, archive AVCHD files from an HD camcorder, convert audiobook CDs for iTunes or iPod playback, transfer video to a TiVo DVR, and capture and tag audio from external sources. For the most part these features work as advertised—now. But that wasn’t true for the first few iterations of Toast 10 Titanium.
Getting aroundA long-standing criticism of Toast is that while it’s crammed full of features, some of those features are difficult to ferret out. Roxio has made Toast more intuitive by organizing tasks into tabs—Data, Audio, Video, Copy, and Convert. Click the appropriate tab and you’ll find options for performing jobs that make sense for that category of tasks. For example, click Data and you’ll see options for creating Mac Only, Mac & PC, DVD-ROM (UDF), ISO 9660, and Photo Discs.The Convert tab provides the means for performing such tasks as extracting and converting video from an unprotected DVD and converting audiobook CDs to an iPod-compatible form.
Toast has been able to convert files for quite some time, but the means for doing it weren’t obvious. This Convert tab makes the process much clearer. Using this tab you can drag files or folders full of media into Toast’s main window, click the red button (that, in this case, means Convert rather than Burn), choose the format you want to convert the files to, click OK, and Toast converts all the media in the window (and, by default, places it directly into iTunes). The Audiobook convert option is one cool new feature. With it, we were able to convert a seven-CD audiobook into a single, bookmarkable m4b file that works just like a book purchased from the iTunes Store or Audible. Toast 10 can capture many Web videos, although the process is somewhat user unfriendly.Nice though these improvements are, some features remain hidden from view. For example, Toast can extract Flash video from a Web site.
Yet there’s no obvious way to do this (and the manual offers no instruction). By visiting Roxio’s forums I learned that this is accomplished by opening Toast’s Media Browser window, choosing Web Video from the browser’s pop-up menu, navigating to a Web page that has a compatible video, and waiting for the video to load in your browser. As it does, Toast captures it. It’s a useful feature, but clumsily implemented. Disc burningWith the disc burning capabilities built into the Mac OS, iTunes, iPhoto, and iDVD, it’s fair to wonder just how necessary Toast is for burning discs today.
If you require making only discs for another computer, backing up data to disc, and creating audio CDs, photo discs, and DVDs of the movies you make with your Mac, the answer is “not very.” The Mac lets you create and burn such discs with ease. But when it comes to creating music DVDs playable in standalone DVD and Blu-ray players, enhanced audio CDs, Video CDs, Blu-ray compatible DVDs, and writeable Blu-ray discs, Toast is the way to go.Creating such discs is largely a matter of dragging the media you want to burn from the Finder into Toast’s main window or opening Toast’s Media Browser window, selecting the kind of media you want to import from a pop-up menu, and dragging it into the window. Once a video file is in the window you can select it and pick the portions you want to include. For audio files you can add fades between the tracks as well as apply Audio Units effects such as reverb or filters to individual tracks and then burn those tracks to disc with those Audio Units effects in place. Trimming before burning content to DVD.Burning Blu-ray-compatible video discs requires that you purchase Roxio’s $20 (also included with the, which bundles in Sonicfire Pro, SoundSoap SE, FotoMagico, and LightZone as well). We had some difficulty successfully burning using some Blu-ray drives with versions of Toast prior to 10.0.5. For example, burning data to a standard DVD using Pioneer mechanisms attached to the Mac via a USB connection often resulted in failure.
FireWire burns on the same drive, however, worked just fine. We ran the same tests with the 10.0.5 update, with the same batch of media, and the discs burned successfully. Whatever the cause, we’re pleased that USB Blu-ray drives are now working reliably.
The extrasToast Titanium ships with a variety of other applications.
Roxio Toast 17 Titanium, the leading DVD burner for Mac, makes burning even better, adding Roxio Secure Burn to protect your files on disc and USB in Mac- or Windows-compatible formats. Get more style with more than 20 themed templates with menus, submenus, and chapters in Toast MyDVD, the pro-quality disc authoring tool. Quickly trim video with just a few clicks in the new Toast Slice simple video editor. Features. Capture – Get video from anywhere, including your screen, the web, camcorders and discs. Edit – Remove unwanted segments from your video clips, and enhance audio tracks or recordings.
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Copy – Easily copy content from CDs, DVDs and Blu-ray Discs, even faster with dual drives. Convert – Enhanced support lets you convert video for playback on a wide variety of devices, including phones, tablets, video game consoles and more. Share – Publish your video directly to YouTube, Facebook or Vimeo. Toast will tweet your YouTube and Vimeo links automatically. Burn – Discover the easiest and fastest way to burn your digital media to disc new Toast Slice simple video editorWhat’s New in Toast Titanium.
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