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Roxio Toast 8 Titanium (Mac) [OLD VERSION] From:Roxio
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3 of 5 customers found the following review helpful: hardware error and sense key error, 2008-01-27 new lacie 18x DVD writer with DL firewire macbook pro 2.16 dual intel, 3gb ram, 10.4.11 media - fujifilm DVD-R, 4.7gb, 16x only gives errors when burning at speeds above 8x (and "best" speed setting). Whats the point of setup if you can only burn at 8x? PLEASE FIX THIS SOFTWARE! -l 1 of 1 customers found the following review helpful: Audio & Video Sync Problem..., 2008-01-26 The Tivo Transfer feature would be great if it worked properly. Unfortunately, each show I transfer to my Mac has audio and video that is out of sync and the transfers are unwatchable. To make matters worse, Roxio support is non-existent. Check the Roxio forums for more info. Buyer Beware! 1 of 1 customers found the following review helpful: A must-have for Mac users who burn a lot of video DVDs., 2008-01-24 I used to own Toast Titanium 6, and Toast 8 is a big upgrade. For users like me, who burn a lot of videos to DVD, Toast 8 is a must-have. Disc spanning, which allows for the burning of data across multiple discs, certainly helps in backing up large files, and I use it often. And the "Fit to Disc" compression for burning a large VIDEO_TS to one 4.7GB DVD is also much-used feature for me, since I work with a lot of video. I also encode a lot of MPEG-2 files at work, and burning them to DVD is a snap, and the final product looks great. Toast 8 also allows for customizable menus, based on 10 templates, and you can replace backgrounds and change button colors to your liking. I'd have liked less tacky template options and the ability to choose my own fonts, as well as the ability to add my own chapter markers, as opposed to the automatic markers Toast adds every 10 minutes. But still, for everything else Toast 8 does, these are small things. I've also tested quite a few video file formats, and Toast 8 can burn most to DVD or VCD. Basically, if QuickTime can handle it, Toast can burn it; though depending on the format, some take longer to transcode. I can't attest to how well the add-on software, like Disc Cover, Motion Pictures, Toast Video Player, and Deja Vu work, as I use other programs to do that. But for what I wanted Toast 8 to do, namely authoring DVDs, it does most of it without any problems. For the cost and ease of use, Toast is the best disc burning solution out there for the Mac. 5 of 5 customers found the following review helpful: No Manual or Tutorial for CD Spin Doctor, 2008-01-22 Purchased this product for use in converting LPs and cassettes to CDs. Had been doing this work with Audacity, which is freeware, and thought CD Spin Doctor would be a step up. Found that there was no manual or no tutorials for how to use Spin Doctor and responses to my two questions to tech support indicated I should check out the Toast on-line forums, rather than expect an answer my question. Spin Doctor was apparently an application that was just dumped into the Toast package without any need seen to offer support or training on how to use it. After using Spin Doctor for awhile, I discovered that it was not possible to do the kind of fine-tuned editing I had come to expect from Audacity and after doing some more exploring of Audacity, I found that I could do everything I needed to with Audacity, including automatically dividing a recording into individual CD tracks and exporting multiple tracks all at once. At that point it became clear that Spin Doctor not going to do the work I needed it to do, and I returned the product for a refund. 2 of 2 customers found the following review helpful: Toast 8.0.3 Works Badly for TiVo, 2008-01-21 Toast 8 is the officially licensed way to download you TiVo recordings onto your Mac in order to play them or burn them to a DVD. If you are buying Toast for this reason, be forewarned that it presently works very badly. It does nothing special in transferring TiVo to a Mac other than being the "officially sanctioned" download of choice. It's video playback tool is awkward. It can't burn a TiVo file without audio sync problems to save its soul. If you instead supply it with properly formatted MPEG2 files, it insists on reencoding (takes hours) -- even when you tell it to never reencode. And yet, it nonetheless frequently fails at reencoding! When you finally get a disc image (after many frustrating tries), Toast still screws up the burn on 50% or more of the cases. It makes coasters out of my best Tayijo Yuden blank DVD-Rs. Unless Toast blows up your TiVo, I'm not really sure how this software could be worse.
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