Product Description

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Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #5292 in Software
• Brand: Roxio
• Model: 815227000180
• Released on: 2003-08-26
• Platforms: Mac OS X, Mac
• Format: CD-ROM
• Dimensions: .84 pounds

Features

• Turn your DV camcorder footage into a Video CD, Super Video CD, or DVD
• Share disc burners across a network or the Internet with other Toast 6 Titanium users
• Turn still photos into Motion Pictures using pan and zoom, dissolves, and soundtracks
• Schedule regular, automatic back ups for peace of mind
• Burn files and folders directly from the desktop with a single-click, pop-up menu

From the Manufacturer
The newest and fastest version of Roxio’s award-winning, CD/DVD-burning software is the foundation of your digital life. Do even more with iTunes, iPhoto, and iMovie. It’s easier than ever to make the most of your data, music, photos, and video. Burn perfect audio and enhanced audio CDs, or digitize old records and tapes. Turn still photos into stunning media shows with pan and zoom effects, cross fades, and soundtracks. Create video discs directly from your DV camcorder. Burn VCDs, SVCDs, or DVDs, with menus, buttons, and chapters to view on a DVD player or computer. Don’t burn it. Toast it.

Your Digital Life Just Got Better

• New: Share CD or DVD burners across a network or the Internet with other Toast 6 Titanium users via ToastAnywhere. Now an entire of?ce or home network can use a single burner.
• New: back up folders and ?les to CD, DVD, networked, or Web storage, automatically.
• New: compress your data up to 50% on CDs or DVDs.
• New: secure your data with 128-bit encryption and password protection.
• New: Toast it and save time--burn directly from the desktop.
• Improved: Copy an unprotected CD or DVD with a single click.

Music Made Perfect

• Improved: drag and drop any audio ?le3 or iTunes tracks into Toast’s Universal Audio Converter to create perfect audio and enhanced audio CDs.
• Improved: digitize your vinyl records and tapes, or record live audio performances, with a completely re-engineered CD Spin Doctor 2.
• Improved: reduce noises, pops, and clicks, and enhance the sound with included ?lters, or add your own 3rd party VST effects.
• Improved: design personalized disc labels, case covers, and inserts.

Photos Made Fun

• New: Motion Pictures software turns your still photos into stunning media shows. Automatically add Hollywood-style pan and zoom effects, cross fades, and soundtracks.
• Improved: preserve your precious photos to CD or DVD, and share photo discs with Mac or PC users.
• New: drag and drop directly from your hard drive or iPhoto library to create fast and easy full-screen, slide shows and watch them on a home DVD player or computer.

Videos Made Easy

• New: create video CDs, super video CDs, or DVDs, with menus, buttons, and chapters, and view them on a home DVD player or computer.
• New: Plug & Burn and create video discs directly from your DVD camcorder content, automatically and effortlessly.
• New: Rip, extract, and reuse video from any iDVD or Toast DVD disc.
• New: Drag and drop any video ?le4 or your iMovie into Toast’s Universal Video Converter.

Customer Reviews

Burn Baby Burn!
Macs come with quite a robust burner in the Finder and the new iLife '04 goes even further than before in giving users more options to customize their discs. So what exactly does Toast do that the Mac OS can't do on it's own?

- Multi Session Burning
- Encrypt data discs with a password
- Burn exact copies of a disc
- Choose which OS the disc will be compatible with
- You can save a burn project so you can burn it again at a later date

These features alone make Toast a very tempting purchase. Thankfully though, it can do much more and it pulls it all off with ease. Drag and drop is about as complicated as the interface gets, but the results are that you have discs burned the way you want that work the way you want. Toast is a powerful, well-rounded, fully featured burning software that just about every user will find useful.

As a bonus you get Discus (for making labels for all those discs you've burnt) and Spin Doctor 2 (for taking out pops and hiss from imported music from records and tapes).

Simple to use, great results
I have an external Lacie DVD writer that is not supported by Apple's iDVD. Toast 6 makes it a simple to create DVDs from my iMovies and iPhoto albums and blows away the crumby software that came with the DVD writer. Highly recommended.

RoxioÃ*s Toast 6 Rules
Working with RoxioÕs Toast 6.0

I use QuickTime Pro for editing my movies with sound clips. ToastÕs CD Spin Doctor 2.0 allows me to bring in sound from my turntableÕs LP (Long Playing) records. CD Spin Doctor 2.0 takes out the hisses and jumps from the LP records. I then import the LP recordsÕ AAF sounds into QuickTime Pro and lay down the new sound track. I appreciate CD Spin Doctor 2.0 utility that makes it easier for me to digitize LP records and cassettes. Within Toast's Audio tab, QuickTime formats (AAC, AIFF, MP3, WAV) is easily converted when you burn your audio CDs.

Toast Motion Pictures give you the opportunity to bring in your photos and create Òmovie motion.Ó Then, you can save them as QuickTime movies.

You can make several movies to SVCD (Super Video CD) and with Roxio Toast you can burn the SVCDs. Each SVCD screen shows three photo buttons with right-hand arrows. I have already saved nine QuickTime movies to an SVCD disk.

RoxioÕs Toast Rules

The standard rates for burning: High VCD with 60 min., SVCD with 20 min. and DVD for 60 min. My computer projects dictate which Toast selection that I use.

Burning Mac/Window CDs are excellent for QuickTime movies, PDFs (Portable Document Format), text documents and photographs. This works well for items that will be used on Mac and Windows platforms.

Super VCDs. What works for me is using SVCD exclusively for QuickTime movies that play on most new DVD players. The quality is fair to good on standard CD burners.

I can burn my movies from good to better quality when using my new Pioneer DVD burner. You can use large size photos to capture quality photos for editing in Photoshop or Photoshop Elements.

DVD. Quality blank DVDs for DVD-R cost about $1.50 per DVD. The viewing quality is excellent and looks great on DVD players hooked to large screen televisions. Also, I can play my one-time recorded DVD-R in my computerÕs DVD/CD drive.

Pro Reaction

Roxio's Web site provides an FAQ (Frequently Asked Questions) and a searchable database of support articles. ToastÕs hard copy manual is informative and has good illustrations. Toast is intuitive and easy to use. It pays to study the Toast manualÊÊand learn the expert qualities of RoxioÕs Toast.

I appreciate the new compression and 128-bit encryption options for Mac computer DVDs and CDs. Also, Toast can import footage directly from your DV camcorder with the simple Plug and Burn feature. Toast handles the hard, tedious work of importing, converting, and encoding content for burning to CDs or DVDs.

Con Reaction

Toast burning is slow on Mac G3 computers and can take all night for copying my DVD movies. Recommend a Mac G4 or G5 computer for faster Toast burning.

Final Remarks

Toast 6.0 gives you the ability to make quality CDs, SVCDs and DVDs. The Roxio Toast program is an excellent buy for your computer dollar.