Toast can use Rendezvous to discover shared burning machines on a local network it can also burn over the Internet if you enter an IP address. ToastAnywhere lets Mac users without built-in CD or DVD burners burn to another computer running Toast 6. Toast 6 also has several new networking features for burning discs. This should be fixed by the time you read this. Also, for drives that burn to both DVD-R/RW and DVD+R/RW, buffer-underrun protection isn’t currently supported. We were annoyed by Toast’s lack of progress bars to indicate the time remaining for encoding video or burning data DVDs - the two most time-consuming uses of such an application. (The program gives only high or standard video-quality options, with no indication of bit rates, so you can’t fine-tune your compression.) Toast gives you basic trimming functionality for files when burning, you can choose to insert chapter markers either at timed intervals or at scene breaks. Toast encoded 5 minutes of video in about 14 minutes on a dual-867MHz Power Mac G4 at high quality. In our tests, it captured and burned an SVCD of footage from a Canon Optura 20 DV camcorder flawlessly. The new Plug & Burn feature lets you capture video from a DV camcorder and burn it to VCD, SVCD, or DVD. Toast 6 can even take an MPEG-1 file - which has audio and video multiplexed into a single track - and create a DVD from it at the click of a button. Now that Toast can author a DVD, users with external DVD burners - which iDVD doesn’t support - can create DVDs, and quick DVD creation is now easier for everyone. But Toast 6 adds MPEG-2 encoding, which lets Toast create a Super Video CD (SVCD) or a DVD, with simple menus, from any video format that QuickTime understands. Toast 5 could encode video files to MPEG-1 format and burn them to Video CD (VCD). I've probably only scratched the surface of Toast capabilities, but it's been very user friendly and easy to explore advanced functions.įorget Popcorn, wish I had just bought Toast 7 first, it does so much more.The most impressive of Toast 6’s improvements involves video. Automaticaly creates quite a few menu templates with artist/track searchable DVD menu, for ease in locating individual tracks or artists. For those that can use a DVD player as the audio media source, in car or home. Can't believe how quick my Apple Lossless music files were burned to DVD as "Mac Only Data".Ĭreating a custom DVD music disc. Easy way to move or backup a huge iTunes library. Can span discs, so you keep feeding them in as needed. The abilty to burn a massive iTunes files as "Mac Only" Data on DVD-R discs for backup, takes someting like 6-7 minutes for 4.7 gigs. Ritek dual layer DVDs are about $2 a piece for uncompressed burns. Apparently 30% compression or less is the magic number for best video quality. I seldom use the excllent compression tool. ![]() There may be other ways, like Audio Hijack, but this piece of software is pretty confusing, with a lot of fluff, in comparison. ![]() Does require a bit of time and matching tracks numbers to track names is not automatic. Then with the "PCM to AIFF" tool, those PCM tracks can be converted to CD/itunes compatible(AIFF) tracks. ![]() Burning discs from iTunes doesn't have "CD Text" capabiltiy.Ĭouple with the Mac the Ripper advanced version that extracts a DVD titles and those individual songs can be ripped (as PCM). Gives individual tracks names on playback too. Huge time saver when I don't have to manually enter disc name. When I burn compilations and load then in my 200 disc changer, each disc and each song is already titled. It seems to be easy to do simple burns and organize track lists without having to understand the more complex features available, which can be explored as one gets the hang of the simpler functionsĬD text input is great. I'm new to MACs but I'd have to say Toast & Titainum is one of the most useful pieces of software I've ever used.
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