![]() Unfortunately, this proved fickle in execution. You can extract specific video or audio files from an unprotected DVD or VIDEO_TS folder, and even embed subtitles into your conversions. Videos can also be encoded and posted directly to your Facebook, YouTube and Vimeo accounts and tweet video links through Twitter – useful features for those who wish to share their home movies. This is useful if you want to run them during the night, or at other times when you're not using your Mac for other things. You can now set your video conversions to start at a specific time and date, or after a countdown set in hours and minutes. Scheduled conversions make their Toast debut. Rival app Handbrake, encoding using its iPhone 4 preset, took 11 minutes, eight seconds. ![]() If you have one plugged in, it takes precedence over VideoBoost.Ĭonverting MacFormat's five-minute sample movie to best-quality iPhone 4 video on a 2.0GHz iMac (not CUDA) took Toast 11 six minutes, 36 seconds, but with Turbo.264, it managed it in three minutes, 34 seconds. Toast is still compatible with Elgato's Turbo.264 USB hardware accelerator too. If you have a Mac with CUDA-compatible Nvidia graphics (most recent Nvidia cards support this), a feature called VideoBoost speeds up your H.264 conversions. The media browser now integrates with Adobe Lightroom as well as iPhoto and Aperture, and outside the browser, you can just drag and drop a file into the main Toast window. You can make changes to preset profiles and save them as custom settings. Alternatively, you can save it out in a specific file format such as H.264, MPEG-4, WMV, MKV and more. There are presets to convert footage for Apple TV, Video iPod, iOS devices, most popular games consoles and non-Apple mobile devices such as the BlackBerry or Palm Pre. Just like the rest of Toast, the Roxio Streamer feature is very simple to set and use.Īdditional bundled software (together with the Streamer software) includes automatic back up software Get backup RE, CD Spin Doctor (for digitising old vinyl records), DiscCatalogMaker RE, TiVo Transfer and Disc Cover 2 RE for creating and printing labels onto compatible CDs and DVDs, plus you also get Toast Video Player thrown in too.Īdd in the more usual features such as disc copy functionality and simple data burning for back-up purposes for example plus cross-platform photo disk creation, using full-resolution images and with fully featured slideshow creation, all makes Toast 9 Titanium pretty much a must-have software item for all Mac users.Toast's video conversion feature now supports a wider range of playback devices than ever before. A separate – floating – media browser allows easy searching and inclusion of your media to be burned be it video, audio or still image content for inclusion in a burning task.Īnd even funkier is the new Roxio Streamer feature that can stream video from your Mac over a Wi-Fi network to another suitably connected Mac or iPhone. Other cool kit includes video conversion for an Apple TV or iPhone and when used, it’ll quickly drop the converted files into iTunes for you if you wish. Natty fit-to-DVD video compression is in there that helps to squeeze larger video or media files onto a DVD that would not normally fit. ![]() Duplication of unprotected DVDs you own is possible now to boot, so you can easily back-up old iMovie projects that you might have littering your hard drive or rip unprotected DVDs for playback on a PSP or iPhone. You get an easy visual confirmation across the bottom of Toast’s window for how much room (or not) you have left on a disk you’ve got inserted to burn. In use Toast is very user-friendly since the interface provides a large content area, add or subtract buttons for, adding or subtracting content from, say, your hard disk you want to burn by clicking Toast’s signature big red button. ![]() However a downside to this is you can only burn clips like this of around 20-minutes since that’s all you can fit on a standard DVD. Although Macs don’t currently have Blu-ray disc burning hardware, Roxio are anticipating its introduction in to future models and that aforementioned additional £14.99 Blu-ray plug-in lets Toast 9 Titanium burn DVDs in a format suitable for playback through a Blu-ray player.
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