Posted by videobuff on 01/12/62 11:54

In article <V7Kdnd58hJ4ZpUzZnZ2dnUVZ_qOdnZ2d@comcast.com>, Rick Merrill <rick0.merrill@NOSPAM.gmail.com> wrote:
I'm a Mac user, and the newest Toast is version 7.1

I've also used version 6. There are some new features in 7 that are worth having but 6 was fine. If you do a search on a
particular burner you may also turn up some more information, i.e. I bought a LaCie burner and found out that Toast 7.1 acts flaky
with this burner, and I'm also running OS X 10.4.7 --- come to find out that other people are having problems with this specific
LaCie burner. So far the burns are OK but Toast is not talking to the burner quite right, and the settings and interface are
acting flaky.

Anyway, Toast is very easy to use. Dump your VOB files into it and hit the burn button, that's about it. I have been using DVD
Backup for ripping VOB's off discs and then burning them in Toast with no problems. A newer ripper called Mac the Ripper is now
available but I haven't used that yet so I can't comment on it. Toast is $99 or $79 as an update or sometimes it's on sale. For
more info go to the Toast / Roxio web site.

You can make CD Audio, CD Data, DVD Data (UDF/DVD-ROM), burn VOB files, burn Quick Time files as DVD-video, and many other types
of discs. The new feature in 7 is burning from a VTS folder. The operators manual has improved a lot since version 6 and all in
all it was worth every penny of its low cost. You can also feed Quick Time / camcorder directly into the accompanying software
called "Motion Pictures" and then burn that. There is some limited editing ability in it too - it will let you chop out unwanted
portions of your capture. Toast also has built-in menus to include in your DVDs. The menus aren't as elaborate as IDVD or
DVDSP, but version 7 has more variety than version 6 which only had a "one size fits all" menu. People have said in the past that
they had figured out a way to hack into version 6 and drop in their own Photoshop designs but this is something I haven't tried.
Another companion piece of software included in Toast is CD Spin Doctor which is an audio recording feature. I've used this for
years too and have always liked it. There are a few caveats however - the main one being that you can't do fade ins/fade outs with
your audio. A few years ago Macs came with "Sound Studio" which DID have the ability to do fades and layer one track over another
and a few more editing features than CD Spin Doctor which virtually has no editing features. You edit by determining starts and
stops of tracks. There is a web site for Sound Studio which is a good cheapo tool. I've heard about Audacity which is also low
cost but I don't know much about it. Seems to be in the same vein as the 2 I have mentioned here. If you want to spend a few
hundred dollars on audio software then you're looking at Peak, Sound Forge, etc. for higher end stuff with more editing capability.

Another thing to experiment with Toast is using QT files. I had made QT files on another computer, and the files were QT 5 and on
a OS 9 computer. This may have made a difference, but when those QT files were brought into Toast 6 for burning, the video was
always no good because there would be a interlacing problem and the result was what I call that strobing look . . . not
acceptable. Instead when I had QT files to burn, I would do it in IDVD and there was never a problem. Whether there are any
problems with QT 7 files and Toast 7 burning, I don't know and would be a future experiment.

> VideoBuff wrote:
>
> > Drag VOB files into Toast 6 or Toast 7. I've been using Toast for years
> > for this purpose.
> >
> >
> > In article <GvQeg.209891$P01.71177@pd7tw3no>,
> > "jazu" <nofreakingspam@nospam.com> wrote:
> >
> >
> >> Hi
> >>I have 5 vob files, which are components of one movie. 5 vobs and no other
> >>files.
> >>What would be the best and fastest way to burn it in on one DVD disk?
> >>thanks
>
> "Toast 6 Titanium
> by Roxio
> Platform: Mac OS X, Macintosh
> (15 customer reviews)
>
> Availability: This item is currently not available.
> "http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0000C0ZM1/102-3485239-2943357?v=glance&n=22
> 9534
> Amazon.com: Toast 6 Titanium: Software
>
>
> Can you say more about the cability of Toast?

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