Roxio Toast Titanium for Mac

At $79.99 including a new rebate, Roxio Toast 10 Titanium allows users to make the most of HD video on their Mac and in so doing, establishes itself at the vanguard of video editing technology. Import video data from your HD camcorder, burn data to CDs, DVDs, and Blu-Ray discs, and even stream HD video to your iPhone via wifi.

Covering more than just HD video, Toast 10 Titanium is in fact a complete media burning, ripping, and management solution. Allowing users to rip audio data from CDs, audio DVDs, and even aging but valuable LPs, Toast 10 Titanium is ideal for users looking to digitize their analog music collection.

There are a range of HD DVD burning applications available, especially for Mac users, but few offer the level of compression and video quality available in Toast 10. Able to compress and fit HD video onto DVD discs without a noticeable loss in quality, Toast 10 Titanium is perfect for amateur filmmakers and digital media gurus.

Simple one-click camera to DVD storage makes it incredibly simple to backup video data. Built-in DVD menu options make adding a menu a one-click process, perfect for new users and casual DVD fans.

Compatible with iTunes, Toast 10 Titanium can export your digitized music collection automatically. Built-in song identification and ID3 labeling functions are surprisingly accurate, and can save users a lot of time when importing their music collection.

While support is relatively limited, and many users report hardware issues and memory usage problems, Toast offers a user-friendly burning interface that's very welcome amongst most Mac users.

Roxio Toast Titanium: What We Liked

• Simple user interface makes burning, importing, and managing audio and video simple.
• Video compression is great, and preserves quality, all the while managing to fit ultra-detailed HD video onto DVD.
• iTunes synchronization saves time for users with large media collections.

Roxio Toast Titanium: What We Didn't Like

• Memory usage while burning data can be quite intense, and system performance is lowered dramatically.
• Online support isn't particularly comprehensive, and phone support is reportedly difficult to use.

Roxio Support

Sonic Solutions offer online support for Toast 10, but it's relatively limited and live support is limited to answer pages. Phone support is available, although difficult to use. Toast 10 Titanium is compatible with Mac OSX Leopard and Snow Leopard.

About Roxio

Roxio create digital media applications, particularly solutions for optical media, HD video, and digital multimedia. A division of Sonic Solutions, Roxio have won several industry awards, including MacWorld's Best of Show award.

     

Toast 10 Titanium is the latest version of Sonic Solutions market-leading burning and digital media software for the Mac. The latest version helps greatly enhance and extend Mac OS X and iLife applications with a broad range of additional capabilities for creating, sharing, and enjoying personal digital media content.

Toast 10 delivers groundbreaking digital media functionality to Mac users with a range of pioneering features that includes: Mac2TiVo for sending home movies and other video content from a Mac to a TiVo DVR; an audiobook creator for converting audiobook CDs into files compatible with portable devices; AVCHD Archive for quickly backing up original content from high-definition camcorders onto DVD or Blu-ray Disc (BD), and a Web video file capture and conversion tool that allows Web-based video to be enjoyed on DVD or mobile devices.

New in Toast 10 Titanium:
AVCHD Archive - Backup original video from AVCHD camcorders direct to DVD or BD media in one easy step. Use the discs in BD players or as source materials in future iMovie or Toast projects.

Mac2TiVo - Send standard definition and HD video from your Mac to your TiVo DVR for viewing on your TV.

Web Video To Go - Save Web video from your favorite video sharing sites to view offline, burn or convert it for viewing on portable players such as an iPod or iPhone.

On-the-go Entertainment - Stream and watch television programs, such as EyeTV recordings and TiVoToGo transfers on your iPhone or iPod touch over Wi-Fi with the new iPhone native application Streamer.

Portable Audiobooks - Convert audiobook CDs into single audiobook files for playback on your iPod or other portable player- complete with individual chapters - no more individual audiobook chapter files scattered throughout your iTunes library or iPod.

Music Builder - Expand your audio library by capturing streaming audio.. Toast now automatically splits captured songs into tracks, tags them with title and artist information, and then sends them to iTunes.

Folder Sync - Synchronize folders bi-directionally between multiple computers, network volumes or external hard disks.

Stunning DVDs - Create personalized DVDs with any of the over 20 new DVD and Blu-ray Disc menu styles-available in both full screen and high-definition widescreen versions.