Product Description

Pro builds on the power of Toast 10 Titanium s extensive capabilities plus Blu-ray authoring with these five digital media essentials.Burn HD video to DVD and Blu-ray DiscsThe High-Def/Blu-ray Disc Plug-in for Toast Titanium gives you the ability to author HD video content on to standard DVDs and Blu-ray Discs. Take high-def (HD) video footage from AVCHD camcorders TiVo DVRs and EyeTV and create Blu-ray Discs or even standard DVDs with HD content that can be played on any standard Blu-ray set top box or PlayStation 3 game console.Create a custom soundtrack to add to your videosSmartSound Sonicfire Pro lets you easily orchestrate sophisticated music tracks to create the perfect sound track for your videos and slideshows. Use Sonicfire Pro s unique automatic Mood Mapping or select from a library of included music tracks and adjust the mix and feel of the score to perfectly match your videos and slideshows.Remove unwanted noises from your audio and videoBIAS SoundSoap removes unwanted noise like wind hissing scratches and pops from LPs cassettes or almost any audio music or video soundtrack. An intuitive user interface makes advanced noise filtering a breeze.Easily add drama to all your photosLightZone is purpose-built for photo enthusiasts. It allows you to produce striking photos in a simple and intuitive way. Sophisticated features like zone mapping and relight give you the tools to achieve professional quality results. A perfect complement to Aperture and iPhoto.Gorgeous photo slideshows in full HDFotoMagico lets you turn your pictures into a spellbinding story with a few simple clicks and then present it in high definition. Innovative text transition and alignment tools ensure astonishing results. Burn your slideshow to DVD or Blu-ray Disc for easy viewing and sharing.Format: MAC 10.4 OR LATER Genre: PRODUCTIVITY Age: 815227009879 UPC: 815227009879 Manufacturer No: 242700

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Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #320 in Software
• Brand: Roxio
• Model: 242700
• Released on: 2009-01-21
• Platform: Mac OS X
• Format: CD-ROM
• Original language: English
• Dimensions: 2.50" h x 5.50" w x 7.70" l, .65 pounds

Features

• Roxio Toast 10 Titanium Pro includes all the power of Toast 10 Titanium, plus Blu-ray video authoring and four award-winning applications
• Create custom soundtracks for your projects, remove unwanted noise from video or audio files, create spectacular HD slideshows, enhance light and color in photos, and more
• Locate, convert and burn your favorite shows, music and data to CD, DVD and Blu-ray discs, or sync to your iPhone, iPod and other mobile devices
• Save and convert video from many popular video sharing websites
• Automatically capture and tag streaming audio from the Internet right into your iTunes library

Amazon.com Product Description
Roxio Toast 10 Titanium Pro is the best way to get pro-quality results in burning, video and photo projects. Enjoy all the power of Toast 10 Titanium plus Blu-ray video authoring and four award-winning photo and audio applications.

Enjoy all the power of Toast 10 Titanium plus Blu-ray video authoring and four award-winning photo and audio applications. Click to enlarge.

SmartSound Sonicfire Pro lets you easily orchestrate sophisticated soundtracks for your videos and slideshows. Click to enlarge.

BIAS SoundSoap SE automatically removes unwanted noise from almost any audio, music or video soundtrack. Click to enlarge.

Easily enhance your photos with sophisticated features like zone mapping and relight for professional quality light and color balance. Click to enlarge.

FotoMagico turns your pictures into a spellbinding story and presents it in high definition. Click to enlarge.

Burn HD video to DVD and Blu-ray
The Toast 10 High-Def/Blu-ray Disc Plug-in lets you take high-def video footage from AVCHD camcorders, TiVo DVRs and EyeTV and create Blu-ray discs or even standard DVDs with HD content that can be played on any standard Blu-ray set top box or PS3 game console.

• High-def to DVD: author HD video to standard DVDs for playback on Blu-ray players
• Author HD video to Blu-ray Discs

Create a custom soundtrack
SmartSound Sonicfire Pro lets you easily orchestrate sophisticated soundtracks for your videos and slideshows. Use unique automatic "Mood Mapping" or select from a library of included music tracks to perfectly match your productions.

• Create professional custom soundtracks for movies and slideshows
• Easily find musical styles and variations to fit the mood of your movies
• Customize the length, arrangement and instrument mix
• Change the tempo and pitch
• Bonus--mood configurable music tracks

Remove unwanted noise
BIAS SoundSoap SE automatically removes unwanted noise like wind, hissing, scratches, and pops from LPs, cassettes, or almost any audio, music or video soundtrack. An intuitive user interface makes advanced noise filtering a breeze.

• Remove noise from analog or digital recordings
• Remove hiss, room noise, rumble, electrical hum, & other background noise from most digital media files
• Solve most simple noise problems with the Learn Noise button
• Powerful fine tuning offers even better sound results

Easily add drama to all your photos
LightZone is an essential tool for photo enthusiasts. Easily enhance your photos with sophisticated features like zone mapping and relight for professional quality light and color balance. It's a perfect complement to Aperture and iPhoto.

• Create dramatic, impactful photos with professional quality light and color balance
• 100% non-destructive editing
• Supports RAW, JPEG, TIFF and DNG formats
• Change exposure without changing color and vice-versa

Gorgeous HD photo slideshows
FotoMagico turns your pictures into a spellbinding story and presents it in high definition. Innovative text, transition and alignment tools ensure astonishing results. Burn your slideshow to DVD or Blu-ray Disc for easy viewing and sharing.

• Turn pictures into a spellbinding stories and present them in stunning HD
• iPhoto library integration
• Export to Toast
• Drag & drop slideshow authoring

Toast's convenient Media Browser includes file browsing, data filters, Spotlight search, Aperture and iLife '08 library access. Click to enlarge.

Create exact copies of CDs, DVDs, and Blu-ray discs--including audio CDs--with one click. Click to enlarge.

Convert audiobook CDs complete with individual chapters and pause/resume support for easy playback on iPod, iPhone and other portable players. Click to enlarge.

Save streaming web video from your favorite web sites and burn to DVD for viewing on your big-screen TV. Click to enlarge.

Send standard and HD video from your Mac to your TiVo DVR for viewing on television. Click to enlarge.

The Standard for Disc Burning on the Mac

Drag, drop, burn
Toast 10 is the easiest and fastest way to burn your music, video, photo and data files on to CD, DVD or Blu-ray Disc for both Mac and PC. Span large projects across multiple discs. Archive up to 50 GB on high capacity Blu-ray Discs.

Unleash your HD videos
AVCHD Archive makes it one-click simple to back up an entire camera of HD video to disc and automatically keep a preview version on your Mac for easy browsing.

Smart folder synchronization
Sync up folders bi-directionally--between multiple computers, network volumes, or external hard disks.

Easy search and fast retrieval
Automatically catalog your discs as you burn--with photo thumbnails saved on your computer, you can easily preview the contents of your discs and find any file or photo without the disc in the drive.

Share on both Macs and PCs
Create hybrid discs with content unique to the Mac or PC--including custom icons, background images, and discs that "autorun" on PCs.

Every file at your fingertips
Toast's convenient Media Browser includes file browsing, data filters, Spotlight search, Aperture and iLife '08 library access.

Copy, Compress and Convert Everything

Copy discs with one click
Create exact copies of CDs, DVDs, and Blu-ray discs--including audio CDs*** with one click. Recover files from scratched and damaged discs while copying.

Every file at your fingertips
Toast's convenient Media Browser includes file browsing, data filters, Spotlight search, Aperture and iLife '08 library access.

Custom DVD compilations
Create custom DVD compilations with up to 4 hours of DVD video on a single disc. Choose the individual DVD movies, audio and languages you want, while maximizing available disc space and video quality.

Video copy & convert
Save time with Batch DVD conversion. Compress multiple DVD-Video folders at once to fit on a single DVD. Or convert them for playback on Xbox 360, PlayStation 3, BlackBerry devices, and more.

Video Quality Preview
Ensure the video quality you've selected is optimal before kicking-off lengthy video conversions. Preview a short clip of your video at selected quality settings in just seconds.

File Recovery for Damaged Discs
Don't risk losing vital data. Recover previously unreadable files from damaged discs and copy them onto a new disc along with a list of unrecoverable files. Some of the data is always better than none!

Expand Your MP3 Library

Audiobook CDs on your iPod
Convert audiobook CDs complete with individual chapters and pause/resume support for easy playback on iPod, iPhone and other portable players

Digitize LPs and tapes
Digitize and restore your LPs and tapes, without the pops, clicks and hisses. Then burn them to CD or DVD, or send to iTunes for syncing with your iPod and more.

Automatic music capture
If your Mac can play it, you can record it. Capture any streaming Internet audio on your Mac. Split audio into tracks, automatically identify and tag them, and add to your iTunes library.

Name that tune automatically
Unique audio fingerprinting technology identifies and tags unknown tracks by adding artist, title and genre information. Now you can enjoy the music rather than doing the typing.

Your Video, Movies & TV Shows Anytime, Anywhere

Enjoy Web video anywhere
Save streaming web video from your favorite web sites and burn to DVD for viewing on your big-screen TV. Easily convert web video to other formats for playback on the portable device of your choice and enjoy it anywhere you go.

HD video on standard DVDs
Easily import video from your AVCHD camcorder or other HD sources and create high-def DVD discs for playback on Blu-ray Disc players, including the PlayStation 3.*

Stream TV Shows
Stream your TiVo and EyeTV recordings and other video files from your Mac to iPhone and iPod Touch over the Internet. Easily browse, sort, and search your TV shows. Toast will even notify you by email when new shows are ready for streaming.

Mac2TiVo
Send standard and HD video from your Mac to your TiVo DVR for viewing on television. Publish folders full of video on your Mac and stream them on-the-fly to your DVR without lengthy video conversions.

Easily grab video highlights
Extract video clips from your home DVD movies** and convert them to view and share on the playback device of your choice.

Striking DVD menus
Choose from over 20 stunning new DVD and Blu-ray Disc menu styles for all occasions--in both full-screen and widescreen versions.

*HD video authoring functionality for DVD and Blu-ray Discs requires the purchase of High-Def/Blu-ray Disc Plug-In.
**Does not copy encrypted or protected content. USE OF THIS SOFTWARE TO MAKE ILLEGAL COPIES OF MOVIES AND OTHER CONTENT IS STRICTLY PROHIBITED

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Customer Reviews

Great program, terrible support.
After getting a replacement DVD because of a flawed file, I finally found out that it is the DVD itself from Roxio that is flawed. The Pro version contains a program called Sonicfire Pro 5. It also includes sounds for that program in the form of a dmg entitled Sonicfire Pro Bonus Audio Tracks.dmg on the DVD. The file will not mount. It fails during the verify because of a codec overrun. It has occurred on several DVDs and with several different computers. It doesn't matter if you first copy it to a hard drive or not. The point of this review is to point out that in over a week, Roxio has failed to rectify the problem. They blame it on Amazon (DVD already has been replaced once, and other users have the same problem), then on codecs in the Quicktime library folder (fails to install on a brand new virgin MacOS 10.5 disk). The program will not verify regardless of the many dmg tools out there (Disk Utility, Stuffit 13, et al). It is a corrupt fail and Roxio won't even bother to support it. The good news is that SmartSound (makers of Sonicfire Pro 5) has received complaints about the corrupt file and has provided a replacement file. Roxio won't (makers of the DVD), but a third party will. Go figure.

Disappointed
I wish I had read the reviews more closely before buying this product (particularly the companion reviews of the regular edition Roxio Toast 10). Usually I discount all the people who give low ratings for poor service as having just had a bad experience. In this case, though, I too have experienced the "unhelpful automated email response" bot. Given the number of reviewers who've mentioned the poor service, it isn't just a couple bad experiences.

Having used the product, I'm not surprised they've gone to automated response. They must be overwhelmed with support requests. The product is a bundle of different programs each of which is shareware-quality. There's no coherency in the user interfaces. Much of the interaction with your media involves dragging things around from the Finder. The "software update" process involves unzipping new applications and copying them on top of the old ones. No smart auto-update.

That said, the collection of "features" is impressive, even if not coherently arranged. AVCHD, Blu-Ray, H264, Elgato, iPhone, Apple TV, Tivo integration are all terrific features to have. I'll admit I haven't played with most of them yet. Thus far I've focused on the Tivo->iPhone pathway.

I installed it on my Macbook Air with attached Apple CD/DVD burner. Performance seems reasonable, though when I accidentally hit "edit" for a Tivo video or try to browse through a bunch of Tivo videos with the Media Browser, it becomes painfully slow.

But the main reason I'm giving it 2 stars is because the Tivo->iPhone pathway has serious defects. Namely, if you set up Tivo Transfer to automatically export to Toast and then set up Toast to automatically convert to iPhone and submit to iTunes, you lose all the series/episode meta-data. Instead each item is given a unique name which destroys the TV Show grouping in iTunes. iPhone syncing works by selecting the most recent unviewed episodes of your selected series. When every episode appears as its own new TV series, syncing becomes very painful.

Further, if you've moved the location of your iTunes media (say to an external drive), Toast can't tell and just puts it in the original location.

Additionally, if you tell Tivo Transfer not to automatically transfer and instead click "Toast It" from within Tivo Transfer, then you're automatically taken to the DVD-burning section of Toast. If you switch over to Convert to iPhone or Apple TV, you can no longer see the transferred video.

The only way I have found to convert items from Tivo to iPhone while preserving Series/Episode data is to find the raw video that Tivo downloaded in Finder and drag each one into Toast and click the convert button. This is rather painful given this is supposed to be a 1st-class feature of Roxio Toast 10.

I have additionally had problems with conversions failing half-way through, but continuing to use 100% of the machine's CPU. In my experience, trying to "Stop" a conversion in process is hit-or-miss... sometimes the CPU just keeps spinning until you manually kill the process from the shell. Also, if you set up Tivo to auto-convert, it appears there's no visible status of what is happening, so there's no way to stop.

In conclusion, for a product labeled "version 10" and "pro" it feels one step better than shareware, but if you need the features it may well be shareware worth buying... just expect some pain with no relief from product support.


** UPDATE **

Service has gone from bad to worse. Instead of answering my question as to why the Series/Episode data wasn't preserved when performing auto-export, they first responded with a general email telling me how to delete all my preferences and re-install Toast 10. I dutifully did as they suggested hoping there was a magic bullet there. Sadly it didn't help. When I replied again, they responded with a general email about how to reset and restart all my Tivos.

To make things worse, these boiler-plate emails spell "preferences" as "prefrences" and "MAC address" as "MAK address". Ridiculous.

Solved my AVCHD video NIGHTMARE!
I recently purchased an AVCHD camera and began shooting, for the first time, in HD. The footage looked very nice when sent directly to my TV using an HDMI cable, but HORRIBLE when I made DVDs. After a lot of trial and error, I discovered that this Roxio product corrects an interesting problem with Macs running iDVD.

iLife '09 does not update iDVD. iDVD is basically unchanged from iLife '06. It cannot burn DVDs with HD content . . . well, let's just say that your DVDs will not LOOK like they have HD content! With Roxio Toast 10 Titanium Pro, you can burn HD content on STANDARD DISCS which play on your Blu-Ray player. STUNNING. I was teary-eyed watching the first HD footage of my daughter on a special day, because everything looked so REAL. There was no "chunking" or "zizzing" to distract the eye.

The bundled extras (SoundSoap, LightZone, etc.) are pretty neat, but I have other software I am used to using which do the same things, basically. FotoMagico's slideshows are jaw-dropping! They eat up a lot of disc space, but make your digital photos look truly splendid, even on a huge TV.

Some background: I have been shooting video in the mini-DV format for some time, and creating DVDs from my footage. I have a LOADED Intel Core 2 Duo iMac. I was editing my footage in Final Cut Express, and burning DVDs using iDVD. Footage from my DV camera looked awful on my HD LCD TV, but that was to be expected of standard definition footage, right? I thought that shooting in HD should fix that problem. Wrong. My Mac needed new software, and this Roxio product did the trick!

I hope this review helps.