#Titanium toast pro manual#
#Titanium toast pro archive#
#Titanium toast pro upgrade#
#Titanium toast pro full#

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 вЂњnot very.вЂќ The Mac lets you create and burn such discs with ease. With the disc burning capabilities built into the Mac OS, iTunes, iPhoto, and iDVD, itвЂ™s fair to wonder just how necessary Toast is for burning discs today. ItвЂ™s a useful feature, but clumsily implemented. By visiting RoxioвЂ™s forums I learned that this is accomplished by opening ToastвЂ™s Media Browser window, choosing Web Video from the browserвЂ™s pop-up menu, navigating to a Web page that has a compatible video, and waiting for the video to load in your browser.

#Titanium toast pro manual#

Yet thereвЂ™s no obvious way to do this (and the manual offers no instruction). For example, Toast can extract Flash video from a Web site. Nice though these improvements are, some features remain hidden from view. Toast 10 can capture many Web videos, although the process is somewhat user unfriendly. 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. The Audiobook convert option is one cool new feature.

#Titanium toast pro full#

Using this tab you can drag files or folders full of media into ToastвЂ™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). This Convert tab makes the process much clearer. Toast has been able to convert files for quite some time, but the means for doing it werenвЂ™t obvious. 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. For example, click Data and youвЂ™ll see options for creating Mac Only, Mac & PC, DVD-ROM (UDF), ISO 9660, and Photo Discs. Click the appropriate tab and youвЂ™ll find options for performing jobs that make sense for that category of tasks. Roxio has made Toast more intuitive by organizing tasks into tabs-Data, Audio, Video, Copy, and Convert. But that wasnвЂ™t true for the first few iterations of Toast 10 Titanium.ДЄ long-standing criticism of Toast is that while itвЂ™s crammed full of features, some of those features are difficult to ferret out. For the most part these features work as advertised-now.

#Titanium toast pro archive#

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. 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.

#Titanium toast pro upgrade#

When you want to burn such discs, the time-tested advice youвЂ™re most likely to hear is вЂњturn to Toast.вЂќДЄs with the past several versions, Toast 10 Titanium does far more than just burn discs (for those interesting in upgrading from earlier versions, be sure to visit RoxioвЂ™s Upgrade Center).

Yet Apple has shied away from supporting certain disc formats-Video CDs, music DVDs, and, most recently, Blu-ray, for example. The Mac has long been capable of burning CDs and DVDs-both data and media discs.