Roxio Toast 8 Titanium

Average customer rating: 4.0

A nice upgrade for Toast
Roxio Toast 8 Titanium
EASY. Fantasic. Great. Worth the $$$.
So so
Titanium 8* Solid software, but... A Critical Review.

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Roxio Toast 8 Titanium

Manufacturer: Roxio
Product Group: Software
Binding: DVD-ROM
ASIN: B000LP6JKY
2007-01-15

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Roxio Toast 8 sets the standard for burning CDs, DVDs, and now Blu-ray discs on the Mac. Create superior sounding audio CDs with crossfades. Enjoy your TV shows anywhere with exclusive EyeTV burning and TiVoToGo transfers to DVD or iPod. Copy your audio CDs, movies and DVDs. It's your digital life, Toast It!

<table cellpadding="10"> <tr> <td width="150"><img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/G/01/software/detail-page/roxio-toast-1-th.jpg" border="0"> </td> <td><b>TV Shows Anywhere You Want Them</b>
Enjoy your favorite TV shows on DVD or on-the-go with Toast's exclusive support for TiVo and EyeTV digital video recorders. Watch your TiVo recorded shows on your Mac, burn your shows to DVD or DivX disc, or convert for your iPod, PSP or other portable player. Fred & Barney. Gilligan & The Skipper. Ernie & Bert, and now... TV & Toast - another perfect TV pair </td> </tr> </table> <table cellpadding="10"> <tr> <td><b>Disc Catalog. What's On That Disc?</b>
Ever wonder what's on that disc you burned 2 years ago? Now you can automatically catalog and browse the contents of your discs - even when the discs are no longer in the Mac. Works great on discs burned with Toast, and other discs, such as your audio CDs. Toast is the easiest way to burn, and the Toast disc catalog is the easiest way to find what you've burned. </td> <td width="150"><img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/G/01/software/detail-page/roxio-toast-2-th.jpg" border="0"> </td> </tr> </table> <table cellpadding="10"> <tr> <td width="150"><img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/G/01/software/detail-page/roxio-toast-3-th.jpg" border="0"> </td> <td><b>Mac & PC Data Spanning</b>
Burn files and folders of any size across multiple discs. Now you can safely backup massive video files or your iTunes library, and easily access on any Mac or Windows PC. Only Toast breaks through the size limitations that the Mac OS and all other burning software have. </td> </tr> </table> <table cellpadding="10"> <tr> <td><b>Superior Quality Audio CDs and DVDs.</b>
Create great sounding audio CD mixes with features from Roxio's Jam software - smooth DJ-style crossfades, sound enhancing Audio Unit filters, and automatic level adjustment. Now anyone can sound like a pro, even if they aren't, with Toast's audio CDs and DVDs. </td> <td width="150"><img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/G/01/software/detail-page/roxio-toast-4-th.jpg" border="0"> </td> </tr> </table> <table cellpadding="10"> <tr> <td width="150"><img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/G/01/software/detail-page/roxio-toast-5-th.jpg" border="0"> </td> <td><b>Mac & PC Photo Discs.</b>
Easily share your photos with friends and family with the new Toast Photo Disc. Store thousands of pictures at full resolution on a standard format disc for any Mac, PC, or photo finishing kiosk. Each disc displays a high quality slideshow, so you can enjoy the photos right away. </td> </tr> </table> <table cellpadding="10"> <tr> <td><b>Copy & Convert DVDs. Pass The Popcorn.</b>
Backup an entire 9 GB DVD to a standard 4.7 GB DVD disc. Fit-to-DVD compression uses all available disc space to maximize video quality. Toast features Director's Cut custom compilations, so you can select specific video, audio and languages for your DVD, or convert DVDs and video files for your iPod, PSP, DivX or other portable video player. </td> <td width="150"><img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/G/01/software/detail-page/roxio-toast-6-th.jpg" border="0"> </td> </tr> </table> <table cellpadding="10"> <tr> <td width="150"><img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/G/01/software/detail-page/roxio-toast-7-th.jpg" border="0"> </td> <td><b>Audio Conversion Assistant</b>
Go back to the future, and bring your classic LPs and tapes into the digital age. The CD Spin Doctor Assistant guides you step-by-step through everything from setting up the equipment, to recording, to splitting the audio into tracks and adding song information. Burn to disc, or enjoy on your iPod. Only Toast helps you rediscover your music on CD and DVD. </td> </tr> </table> <table cellpadding="10"> <tr> <td><b>Blu-ray Disc Burning.</b>
Store up to 12,500 music tracks, 50,000 photos, or 4 hours of HD video on a single 50 GB Blu-ray Disc. Toast Dynamic Writing lets you use your Blu-ray Disc recorder like a giant hard disk drive - drag and drop directly onto the disc icon to add or remove files. Blu-ray burning is here today, and only Toast makes it possible on the Mac. </td> <td width="150"><img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/G/01/software/detail-page/roxio-toast-8-th.jpg" border="0"> </td> </tr> </table>

<b>Features</b>

<b>Photo & Video</b> <ul>

NEW! TiVoToGo transfers to DVD, iPod or PSP

NEW! Custom DVD menu backgrounds

Improved! EyeTV burning to DVD, DivX or Blu-ray Disc

Improved! Import and burn shows from set-top DVD recorders

NEW! Full quality photo archive disc with slideshows

Improved! Video copy to iPod, PSP, mobile phone, and more </ul>

<b>Music</b> <ul>

NEW! Roxio Jam pro-quality audio mastering tools

NEW! Dynamic DJ-style crossfades and transitions

NEW! Audio processing, volume normalizing, and track trimming

Improved! 50+ hour music DVDs with Dolby Digital sound

Improved! Vinyl LP and tape conversion to CD, DVD or iPod </ul>

<b>Burning & Copying</b> <ul>

Improved! One-click copy of audio CDs and movie DVDs

NEW! File recovery for damaged discs

NEW! Director's Cut custom copy compilations

NEW! Preview movies and extras before copying

Improved! Fit-to-DVD compression of 9 GB onto a 5 GB disc

NEW! Mac & PC data spanning

NEW! Cataloging and tracking of burned discs contents

NEW! Blu-ray Disc support for burning up to 50 GB

NEW! Blu-ray Disc burning directly from the desktop

NEW! Integrated file browsing, data filters and Spotlight search </ul>

<b>File Support</b> <ul>

Audio: AAC, AIFF, MP3, WAV, M4A, OGG, FLAC, and Dolby Digital AC-3

Video: AVI, DV, MOV, MPEG-1/2/4, DivX, XviD, VOB, VIDEO_TS folder, iMovie projects, EyeTV recordings, TiVoToGo transfers

Photo: BMP, GIF, PDF, PSD, PNG, TIFF

Images: ISO, BIN/CUE, IMG, DMG, CDR, NRG </ul>

<b>UI Enhancements</b> <ul>

Streamlined user interface

Floating media browser

Rich informative visual feedback

Customer-driven refinements </ul>

Product Description

Toast 8 Titanium completes your digital life. It's designed to complement the Mac OS and iLife software you normally use for CD and DVD burning -- and now it allows you to burn Blu-Ray discs. Create perfect-quality audio CDs with the smoothest crossfades and transitions. Enjoy your shows anywhere with exclusive TiVoGo and EyeTV burning. Convert video for portables is easy -- with a few clicks, you'll export to your iPod, PSP or mobile phone in no time. Burn files of any size, then catalog it the contents for easier management. Copy your CDs, movies and DVDs in a snap. There's no easier, faster way to save, enjoy and share your digital media on disc! Back up an entire 9GB DVD disc & use all available disc space to maximize video quality Director's Cut custom compilations let you select video, audio & languages for your DVD Convert files for your iPod, PSP, DivX or other portable Spin Doctor Assistant guides you through converting LPs and tapes to digital Blu-Ray Disc Burning - Store up to 12,500 music track, 50,000 photos or 4 hours of HD video on a single disc Disc recovery for pulling data from scratched or damaged files Create your own disc labels and inserts Includes iLife Media Browser

Customer Reviews:

A nice upgrade for Toast.......2007-06-13

This is a logical and worthwhile upgrade for Toast, with an improved interface and capabilities, including managing copying to Blue Ray disks (if your burner has the capability). I upgraded from Toast 7 and have no regrets.

Roxio Toast 8 Titanium.......2007-05-20

Using it to record TIVO it is good. I would love to remove commercials, and other edits.

EASY. Fantasic. Great. Worth the $$$........2007-05-20

i tried to burn a DVD of a home video. I could not make the Apple Software work on my mac. (dunno what i did wrong). tried some other software (shareware, & Dragon Burn). i failed to get a burn. So, i purchased Toast 8, here at Amazon. It works with ease. Now my Home Made Wedding Video is on DVD disc. & i feel that the $$$ spent on Toast 8 were well spent. Toast is EASY, EASY, EASY.

So so.......2007-05-19

Toast is a great buy if you don't already own it. If you own Toast Titanium 7 I'd hold off for the next version, unless you absolutely need the added features like TiVo functionality.

The good:

Burns/copies/creates DVDs and CDs wonderfully, as it should. Very functional. Looks pretty, but....

The bad:

The slick graphics are pretty superfluous if you ask me. I like Toast 7's interface more, since it doesn't go overboard trying to wow me with shrinking windows and sliding panes. This stuff just eats processor power. That's what we call "bloatware".

I owned Popcorn before, and Popcorn had a much easier system for exporting to iPod/PSP. Just drop in your TS folder, select your quality setting, and watch it go. Toast 8's similar functionality is mired in the "DVD-Video" menu, and it isn't even obvious where you need to go to accomplish your task at all, until you go to save it, THEN you can select an ipod export format. I don't see why they couldn't have had a portable device tab like they do for Video, Music, etc, or even a menu item within the Video tab. Just don't bury it for god's sake!

Why do these programs insist on saving disc images in their own proprietary formats? Nero has it's own, and apparently so does Toast, unless it's a straight ISO format with a different file extension. Maybe someone has tried renaming and buring as an ISO?

In summation, much like many other version upgrades with other software *cough* Vista *cough* save your money if you have the next step down (Toast 7) unless you REALLY need slick those graphics and Tivo support.

Titanium 8* Solid software, but... A Critical Review........2007-05-12

This is another product that I wish Amazon would allow us to give half (1/2) stars because I would rate the Toast 8 at four and one half stars as opposed to a perfect five.

For someone to give a product 5 stars, it is presupposed that the product is outstanding with no unrealistic flaws. There a few that you should be aware of. First of all...

Toast 8 is a bundled software package. Until now, it was just the premiere cd/dvd burning software for the Mac. Period. And, it is still the most economical and best multi-platform burning software for the Mac, only this time
Roxio has decided to combine several little add-ons to make Toast 8 a more attractive buy. Indeed, it does. We've used earlier editions of Toast in various functions such as in providing the local print shop with our files for advertising and promotional material for our theatre. Never a problem. We've used Toast to back up files on the harddrive and archived them. Never a problem. Making crisp clean copies of audio cd's, excellent, except in the version we had, one could not go back to I-Tunes to burn files once Toast was installed. It seemed as if Toast "bogarted" the cd-burning ability from I-Tunes.

Toast 8*
The cd/ dvd functions, excellent as always. But, you're (we're) now able to use I-Tunes to burn files we have on file without having to go to Toast. Great. Roxio kept a perfect software in tact.

CD Spindoctor*
Unless I'm wrong, but I think Roxio has used their "PC" name for the Mac-version of their audio filtering software "Jam". That created just a little confusion, they should have just said "Jam," because they marketed it as being included in Toast 8. With that being said, you should know that THERE ARE NO INSTRUCTIONS FOR ANY OF THE OTHER FREE SOFTWARE INCLUDED EXCEPT FOR THE ORIGINAL TOAST SOFTWARE. The booklet that comes in the box has instructions for only the cd burning, Toast. If you're not familiar with the other software like I was "CD Spin Doctor ("Jam"), Disc Cover Re, Disc Catalog, Motion Picture HD or TiVo to Go, then you'll have to find instructions on-line. Spindoctor/ "Jam" is excellent for what it does. I've used several times to restore and back-up old cassettes that I worried would break. This particular software used to come as a stand-alone software about 6 months after the latest version of Toast would appear, bringing the combined cost of Toast and Jam to about $150. It's now free! (I spoke to a rep. at Roxio concerning some directions on using Spindoctor and she told me afterwards that Roxio was discontinuing "Jam" and decided on adding it to Toast.)

Spindoctor instructions-- you'll need to have in addition to the audio device (ie, turntable/cassette deck) an RCA 1/8 audio input jack. The 1/8" input goes directly into the MacBook/ PowerBook or MacPro etc. jack. The red and white (right and left) channels goes into the "Line Out" of the audio device. Once you open Spin D, you'll have to decide if you want to record from the computer's internal mic's or the input module. Unless you're recording a discussion in the room, I'd suggest the input. Once you do that, you'll notice in the bottom section, right, the time remaining on the computer's harddrive for recording. *It doesn't give you the file saving option yet, as it automatically saves it as an uncompressed WAV file.

After you've done your recording, you'll have to engage the "wand" device to see the spectrum. Spin will automatically break the recording into sections. You'll move the triangle to the spot where you'd like to make some adjustments. Correspondingly, you'd have to look to the bottom where the numbers correspond to the colored sections, if you would. Hitting delete removes that section of the audio file. Beware... when editing, only the audio in the colored (red, yellow, blue, etc) will be transfered to Toast for burning and/ or I-Tunes for storage. It's not always easy to determine what's been deleted as the background is a pale grey.

When finished, you can either add equalizer enhancements (a small tab in the upper right-hand corner) or send to Toast and or/ I-Tunes. There's a box in spin that says "Path". This is important, because if you want to delete the uncompressed WAV file, you'll need this information to find it to delete once you've archive the uncompressed to cd/dvd and the compressed file in I-Tunes. Both, you'll have to engage from the drop-down menu.

*Disc Cover RE-- You can use this, if you have a disc that allows for burning images on the top.
*Disc Catalogue-- This is great if you'd like to know what you've burned and when, but it won't tell you where the file is if you've followed the Path and deleted the original file.

*I haven't used Tivo-to-Go, but a friend said the resolution left something to be desired.

With the exception of the lack of supporting instructions for the free, bundled software. This is absolute worth upgrading to. If nothing else than for software that you'd probably buy separately.

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