i Contents 1 Getting Started 1 Installing The Software . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 Getting Started with Toast. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 The Toast Main Window. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 Burning Your First Disc With Toast . . . . . . . . . 7 Converting Video. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 Choosing the Right Project . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 About Discs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11 Using the Media Browser . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
ii Toast Titanium www.roxio.com 2 Making Video Discs 21 3 Using Other Toast Features 49 4 Making Data Discs 55 Types of Video Discs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Overview of Making a Video Disc. . . . . . . Making a DVD or BD Video Disc . . . . . . . . Using Plug & Burn . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Making a DVD From VIDEO_TS Folders . . . Making a VIDEO_TS Compilation. . . . . . . . Making a BDMV Folder Disc . . . . . . . . . . . . Creating an AVCHD Archive . . . . . . . . . . .
Toast Titanium Contents Making a Mac & PC Disc . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Making a DVD-ROM Disc . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Making a Custom Hybrid Disc . . . . . . . . . . Making a Mac Volume Disc. . . . . . . . . . . . Making a Photo Disc . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Using Toast Dynamic Writing . . . . . . . . . . . 5 Making Audio Discs 81 6 Copying Discs 97 What is an Audio Disc? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Types of Audio Discs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
iv Toast Titanium www.roxio.com 7 Converting Media 103 Why convert audio and video? . . . . . . . Converting DVD-Video Content . . . . . . . Changing Convert Options . . . . . . . . . . . Converting Video Files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Creating Custom Profiles . . . . . . . . . . . . . VideoBoost . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Pause and Resume Video Conversion . . Converting Audio Files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Converting Audiobooks . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
1 Getting Started In this chapter Introduction 2 Installing The Software 2 The Toast Main Window 4 Burning Your First Disc With Toast 7 Converting Video 8 Choosing the Right Project 9 Using the Media Browser 12 Changing Recorder Settings 14 Saving and Opening Toast Projects 15 Erasing Discs 16 Ejecting a Disc 17 Toast Extras 17 Technical Support Options 19
2 Toast Titanium www.roxio.com Introduction Toast brings you award winning disc burning and a whole lot more. Everything you need to burn, watch, listen to, and share your digital life is right at your fingertips. This guide provides the information you need to start burning your projects with Toast Titanium. The features and capabilities described are available in the full Toast Titanium product. Your version may not have all the features and capabilities described.
Getting Started Getting Started with Toast To install the software: 1 Double-click on the downloaded .DMG file or insert the installation DVD into your drive. The Roxio® Toast® window appears on your desktop. 2 Double-click the Toast installer. 3 Follow the instructions on screen to complete the installation. 4 In the applications folder on your hard disk, browse to the Toast folder. You will see an icon for Toast along with other optional components you've installed.
4 Toast Titanium www.roxio.com Copy: Copy discs, including non-protected CDs, DVDs, and Bluray discs, or disc image files. See Copying Discs on page 97. Convert: Convert DVD-Video discs and folders, or audio and video files to other formats or for use on portable devices. Publish directly to online sharing services. See Converting Media on page 103. 2 A list of available formats appears.
Getting Started The Toast Main Window 1 2 4 3 6 5 Project Categories (1) As with the Toast Assistant, the various project categories are laid out across the top of the screen. Content Area (2) This is the main area at the left side of the window. For most project types, this is where you drag your files to add them to a project. Options Area (3) Located at the right side of the screen, the options area allows you to select options for the current project.
6 Toast Titanium www.roxio.com Space Indicator (4) Located across the bottom of the Toast window, the space indicator displays exactly how much content you've added to the current project. You can choose CD, DVD or Blu-ray media types to have the indicator calibrated for your target disc. Record Button (5) Located at the bottom right of the Toast window, the red record button will begin recording your disc. For video conversion projects, this will also begin exporting your video.
Getting Started Burning Your First Disc With Toast Media Type Buttons Thumbnail size controls Add Button Filter or Search Box Burning Your First Disc With Toast This section describes the basic process of burning any disc with Toast’s main window. To make a disc with Toast: 1 Select the project category. From the Assistant or the main Toast window, select a project category. Data — Put any file or folder on a disc for archiving or backup purposes, for use in a Mac, PC, or any computer.
8 Toast Titanium www.roxio.com 2 Video — Make VCDs, SVCDs, DVD-Video discs, Blu-ray or HighDef DVDs for use in a computer or set-top DVD player. See Making Video Discs on page 21. Copy — Copy a CD, DVD, BD, or disc image file. See Copying Discs on page 97. Select the disc format and settings. Choose the disc project and any optional settings. Format selection menu 3 Add content. Drag-and-drop files and folders into the Content Area from your hard disk or the Media Browser.
Getting Started Choosing the Right Project 2 Add video files to the project by dragging them into the Content Area from your hard disk or the Media Browser. Note: You can add content from your high-definition (AVCHD) camcorder by clicking Video in the Media Browser and choosing AVCHD Camcorder. 3 Click the red Convert button at the bottom right-hand corner of the screen. 4 From the window that appears, choose the format and destination for your video.
10 Toast Titanium www.roxio.com I want to... Use this disc format Archive and share photos from my iPhoto library (or any other pictures) with friends and family. Data > Photo Disc. See Making a Photo Disc on page 77. Listen to music from my iTunes library in my home or car stereo CD player. Audio > Audio CD. See Making an Audio CD on page 84. Listen to music from my iTunes library in my DVD player. Audio > Music DVD. See Making a Music DVD on page 89. Watch slideshows and video on my TV.
Getting Started About Discs About Discs Toast supports CD, DVD, and Blu-ray media types: CD, CD-RW, DVD-R/RW, DVD-R DL (dual-layer), DVD+R/RW, DVD+R DL (double-layer), DVD-RAM (cartridgeless), BD-R/RE, BD-R/RE DL (dual-layer). The type you should choose depends on the capabilities of your recorder and playback device, if applicable. CD Media If you have a CD recorder, you can use blank CD recordable (CD-R) media to create CDs. CDs typically hold 700 MB of information.
12 Toast Titanium www.roxio.com Blu-ray recorders also support dual-layer Blu-ray discs, which hold about 50 GB of information. Some Blu-ray recorders also support rewritable (BDRE) media, which can be erased and reused. Much like DVD players, some Blu-ray Disc set-top players may work better with one type of disc than another, and the same guidelines about switching to other brands or types apply here.
Getting Started Using the Media Browser Note: You can also access discs from set-top DVD recorders or DVD camcorders. Toast includes special support for these discs, which normally are not usable in the Mac OS. Insert these discs in your recorder while Toast is running, and then import video from them with the Media Browser. 3 To search for files or folders enter a search term in the text field at the bottom of the Media Browser window.
14 Toast Titanium www.roxio.com Imported items from a disc are temporarily stored in the Roxio Converted Items folder in your Documents folder. You can use these items in disc projects or save them to your hard disk by exporting audio or video. See Converting Media on page 103. These temporary items can be very large and are automatically deleted when you quit Toast. The original source content is not deleted from your disc.
Getting Started Saving and Opening Toast Projects DAO/TAO: DAO (Disc-At-Once) audio recording allows pauses of varying lengths of up to 8 seconds between tracks. This option also allows for CD-TEXT. TAO (Track-At-Once) recording requires a pause of 2 seconds between all tracks. Write Disc/Write Session: Select the session option if you are creating data CDs and wish to leave the disc “open” to add more data at a later time. See Making a Mac Only Disc on page 61.
16 Toast Titanium www.roxio.com To save the current project: 1 Choose File > Save. 2 Type a file name and select a location to save to. 3 Click Save. Saved Toast disc projects end in “.disc". To open a saved project: 1 Choose File > Open. 2 Select the Toast project file you want to open. 3 Click Open. Tip: You can browse to and quickly open the most recently used projects by choosing File > Open Recent, and clicking on a project. You can also double-click a Toast project to open it.
Getting Started Ejecting a Disc 2 Choose the way you want to erase the disc: Quick Erase: This erases the disc faster than the standard erase option, but the disc can only be re-recorded with Toast. Erase: This erases the disc so it can be re-recorded using any burning software. Tip: When burning some projects to rewritable media, you will be prompted to erase the disc before beginning your project. The entire contents of the disc will be erased and will not be recoverable.
18 Toast Titanium www.roxio.com To capture screen action 1 Choose Extras > Live Screen Capture. 2 In the Live Screen Capture dialog, choose Full Screen or Custom from the Screen menu. If you choose Custom, set the capture area by typing values in the Width (W) and Height (H) boxes or by clicking the Crop button and dragging across the screen.
Getting Started Technical Support Options Technical Support Options Self-Help Options Roxio provides a variety of self help tools, including a searchable knowledge base of support articles with troubleshooting tips, and discussion groups where other users can help you get the most out of your Roxio products. You'll find answers to most of your questions at http://support.roxio.com.
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21 7 Making Video Discs In this chapter What is a Video Disc? 22 Types of Video Discs 22 Overview of Making a Video Disc 23 Making a DVD or BD Video Disc 24 Making a DVD From VIDEO_TS Folders 40 Making a VIDEO_TS Compilation 43 Making a BDMV Folder Disc 44 Creating an AVCHD Archive 45 Editing Video 46
22 Toast Titanium www.roxio.com What is a Video Disc? A video disc is a CD, DVD or Blu-ray disc that contains photos or video files. Video discs are meant to be played in a set-top player, and can also be used in a Macintosh or Windows computer with a DVD or Blu-ray player and appropriate software. Types of Video Discs Toast can create many kinds of video discs—more than any other Mac burning software.
Making Video Discs Overview of Making a Video Disc AVCHD Archive: This type of disc allows you to store high definition video from an AVCHD camera to standard DVD or BD discs without any loss of quality. See Creating an AVCHD Archive on page 45. Overview of Making a Video Disc This section describes the basic process of making any video disc with Toast. Tip: Discs can be burned to more than one recorder at a time. For more information, see Burning Projects to Multiple Recorders on page 59.
24 Toast Titanium www.roxio.com rearrange, remove, or trim video. See Working With Videos on page 29 for more information. Note: You can automatically import tape from a DV camcorder for your disc. See Using Plug & Burn on page 32. 5 Insert a blank, recordable disc. 6 Optional: Change the destination recorder and number of copies at the bottom of the screen. 7 Click the red Burn button at the bottom right of the Toast window.
Making Video Discs Making a DVD or BD Video Disc Menu Style: Choose a style for the menu background image, text, and buttons. Quality: Toast must compress video to fit onto the disc. Choose the quality you want to have for the compressed video. Better quality takes longer to process: Good: Suitable for simple video, such as people talking— fastest processing time. Better: Suitable for most video—average processing time.
26 Toast Titanium www.roxio.com 6 Optional: Change the destination recorder and number of copies at the bottom of the screen. 7 Click the red Burn button at the bottom right of the Toast window. Toast displays a progress bar and status information as it records your disc. Previewing a DVD-Video You can preview a DVD-Video disc prior to burning an actual disc by saving it as a disc image file and then using the Toast Image mounter.
Making Video Discs Making a DVD or BD Video Disc the ability to create HD video discs without owning a Blu-ray Disc recorder. Although you are recording to standard DVD discs with this project, you can only view the finished project on a Blu-ray Disc player. This type of project is ideal for creating video discs from your AVCHD camcorder. A standard, single-layer DVD can hold approximately 30 minutes of HD video and a dual-layer DVD can hold approximately one hour of HD video.
28 Toast Titanium www.roxio.com can contain up to 99 photos. You can rearrange, duplicate, remove, or edit slideshows. To rearrange slideshows: 1 Select the slideshow you want to rearrange. 2 Drag the slideshow to a new position in the Content Area. A black bar indicates where the slideshow will be placed. To duplicate a slideshow: Select a slideshow and choose Edit > Duplicate. To remove a slideshow: 1 Select the slideshow you want to remove.
Making Video Discs Making a DVD or BD Video Disc 2 3 Click the Slideshow tab and choose from any of the following options: To remove photos, select a photo and click Remove. The photos are removed from the slideshow, but the originals are not deleted from your hard disk, iPhoto, or Aperture library. To reorder photos, drag the photo to a new position in the photo list. A black bar between photos indicates where the photo will be placed.
30 Toast Titanium www.roxio.com 2 Drag the video to a new position in the Content Area. A black bar indicates where the video will be placed. To duplicate a video: Select a video and choose Edit > Duplicate. To remove a video: 1 Select the video you want to remove. 2 Remove the selected video in any of these ways: Click the Remove files button. Press Delete. Choose Edit > Clear.
Making Video Discs Making a DVD or BD Video Disc Enter a time into the Start or End control and then click in the Duration box to reset the marker. To make finer adjustments: Click on a marker and press the right or left arrow keys. Click the up and down arrows next to the Start and End controls. The video between the Start and End marker is included on the finished disc. The area outside of the markers is excluded. The original video on your hard disk is unaffected. 3 Click OK.
32 Toast Titanium www.roxio.com 4 Click OK. 5 To include a scene menu on the disc based on the chapter markers you have added, click Customize on the Options panel. Click the Menus tab, and then select Include scene menus for video. See Video Disc Settings on page 33 for more information. Using Plug & Burn When creating a video disc, you can automatically import video from your DV camcorder using the Plug & Burn feature. You can import the entire tape or only a portion of the tape.
Making Video Discs Using Plug & Burn Rewind Tape/Current Position: Choose Rewind Tape to automatically rewind to the beginning of the tape before importing. Choose Current Position to begin importing from the current location on the tape. You can import and then record the disc immediately, or import and add additional video or slideshows before recording the disc. To start recording the disc immediately after importing: 1 Insert a blank, recordable disc.
34 Toast Titanium www.roxio.com common settings are available on the Options panel. The full set can be accessed by clicking the Customize button on the Options panel and clicking either the Disc or Menus tab. Settings available on the Disc tab include: Disc Name: Type a name for the disc. This name is visible when you insert the disc into a Macintosh or Windows computer.
Making Video Discs Using Plug & Burn Aspect Ratio: This setting should match the aspect ratio of the source video. In most cases, Toast is able to detect the aspect ratio of the source video and the Automatic setting should work fine. Number of Buttons: Choose the number of buttons to appear on each menu. Note: Different menu styles have different options available for the number of buttons available on a single menu screen.
36 Toast Titanium www.roxio.com Include SmartLists for music: Select this option to include SmartLists in the DVD menu for Music DVDs. SmartLists are automatically generated playlists for all Artists, Albums and Songs. Include Shuffle play: Select this option to include a Shuffle button for each slideshow, playlist and SmartList in the menu. Clicking the Shuffle button while playing the disc will play the photos or music tracks in a random order.
Making Video Discs Using Plug & Burn Disc Encoding Settings When creating a Music DVD, DVD-Video, or Blu-ray video, you can choose various options for the video and audio encoding. Some of the more common settings are available on the Options panel. To change the Encoding Settings: 1 Start a new Music DVD or Video Disc project: See Making a Music DVD on page 89. See Making a DVD or BD Video Disc on page 24. 2 On the Options panel, click Customize, and choose the Encoding tab.
38 Toast Titanium www.roxio.com The minimum bit rate is derived from the above two values using the following formula: Minimum = (2 x Average) – Maximum. 6 Motion Estimation: Choose the method used to search for pixel movement in the video stream. This setting has a large impact on the final quality, and on the processing time as well. Better motion estimation takes longer to process.
Making Video Discs Using Plug & Burn PCM audio should be used if you want to maintain 100% fidelity and only if the audio source is already uncompressed PCM, such as tracks on an audio CD or a high quality audio recording. If the audio files are already compressed (such as MP3 or AAC songs in your iTunes library) do not use PCM—it will not improve the sound quality. Toast records PCM at 48 kHz / 16 bit levels or 48 KHz / 24 bit levels, which are higher than standard CD quality.
40 Toast Titanium www.roxio.com Note: The original source content is not deleted from your hard disk. You can configure your preferences to save these imported items for a longer time. See Configuring when Roxio Converted Items is emptied on page 14. Making a DVD From VIDEO_TS Folders You can create a DVD from one or more existing DVD-Video VIDEO_TS folders for playback on a set-top DVD player or in a Macintosh or Windows computer with a DVD drive and DVD playback software.
Making Video Discs Making a DVD From VIDEO_TS Folders Note: If you are recording to a dual-layer DVD, no compression will occur. 3 Drag-and-drop VIDEO_TS folders into the Content Area from your hard disk. A summary of the information that will be copied appears in the content area. 4 Click Options to choose optional Fit-to-DVD settings: You can choose to copy only the main movie with a specific language and audio format.
42 Toast Titanium www.roxio.com Note: When burning multiple VIDEO_TS folders at the same time, use the Save as Disc Image button and Toast will process each VIDEO_TS folder without requiring any user interaction. These image files can be burned at a later time. Changing Copy Options Fit-to-DVD compresses video to fit on a standard 4.7 GB recordable DVD. Compressing may result in a slight reduction in video quality, but will leave the audio quality unchanged.
Making Video Discs Making a VIDEO_TS Compilation If the Apple DVD Player software is installed on your Mac, you can preview a video by clicking on the small Play button on the video thumbnail. 4 Languages: Select which languages to include. Minimizing the number of languages provides additional room on the DVD, which can result in better video quality. Select the Audio drop-down menu, and choose the audio to include: All: Select to include all audio for each video.
44 Toast Titanium www.roxio.com Some VIDEO_TS folders may be too large to fit on a standard recordable 4.7 GB DVD. Toast can compress this video to fit on a standard DVD, or if your recorder supports dual-layer recordable DVDs, you can create a duallayer DVD-Video from this folder. This is the best choice if you have multiple VIDEO_TS folders that you want to compress on one DVD-Video disc. To make a VIDEO_TS Compilation disc: 1 From the main Toast window, click Video.
Making Video Discs Creating an AVCHD Archive 3 Drag-and-drop your BDMV Folder in to the content area. A summary of the information that will be copied appears in the content area. 4 Insert a blank, recordable Blu-ray disc as appropriate. Your source video will not be compressed which may require you to use a duallayer Blu-ray disc if the video will not fit on a single-layer disc. 5 Optional: Change the destination recorder and number of copies at the bottom of the screen.
46 Toast Titanium www.roxio.com 6 Optional: Change the destination recorder and number of copies at the bottom of the screen. 7 Click the red Burn button at the bottom right of the Toast window. If more than one blank disc is required, you will prompted with the total number of discs required before recording begins. Note: You can enable the option to Save Video Preview in Movies Folder.
Making Video Discs Editing Video To remove sections of video: 1 To crop or remove video from the middle of your clip, move the playhead arrow at the top of the timeline to the point in the video you would like to remove. 2 Click the Insert Marker button immediately to the right of the Play button. 3 You will see two arrows appear below the timeline, immediately below the playhead position.
48 Toast Titanium www.roxio.com 3 Make any changes to the options listed for that specific effect. 4 If you would like to apply a second or third effect to your video clip, click the Effect Number 2 or Effect Number 3 button, and choose a second or third effect. Adjust the settings for each. 5 To preview effects that you’ve applied, click Edit beside the video in the Content area and click the Play button. The preview here will include any audio effects you have applied.
49 Using Other Toast Features In this chapter Viewing Information about a Disc 50 Saving Disc Images 50 Mounting Disc Images 51 Comparing Files or Folders 52 Creating a Temporary Partition 53
50 Toast Titanium www.roxio.com Viewing Information about a Disc You can view detailed information about a blank or recorded disc in your recorder. This feature works only with CD, DVD or Blu-ray recorders. Note: Make sure that the disc is compatible with your recorder. For example, you cannot use a DVD recorder to view disc information for a Blu-ray Disc. To view disc information: 1 Insert a blank or used disc into the recorder. 2 Choose Recorder > Disc Info. The Disc Information dialog appears.
Using Other Toast Features Mounting Disc Images Disc image files have an added benefit of being faster to access than a disc in your drive and may offer longer battery life for notebook users. See Mounting Disc Images on page 51. You can create disc images from any Toast disc type. To save a project as an image file: 1 Set up your disc project as you normally would. 2 Choose File > Save As Disc Image 3 Type a file name and select a location to save to.
52 Toast Titanium www.roxio.com Toast does not have to be running to mount the image. To unmount a disc image file: Drag the disc icon from the Desktop to the Trash in the Dock. Warning: Do not drag the disc image file to the Trash unless you want to delete the image file from your hard disk. Comparing Files or Folders You can compare the contents of files or folders to see if they match. You might do this to double-check that the original files are identical to a copy you made of them.
Using Other Toast Features Creating a Temporary Partition You will see a progress bar that tracks the comparison. Any data that is in the original but missing from the copy will appear in the list. Creating a Temporary Partition You can create a temporary partition on your hard disk that can be used to set up data you want to record to a disc. Temporary partitions allow you to have better control over the layout of your data and how its windows are arranged and displayed.
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55 Making Data Discs In this chapter What is a Data Disc? 56 Types of Data Discs 56 Overview of Making a Data Disc 58 Burning Projects to Multiple Recorders 59 Making a Mac Only Disc 61 Making a Mac & PC Disc 67 Making a DVD-ROM Disc 72 Making a Custom Hybrid Disc 73 Making a Mac Volume Disc 75 Making a Photo Disc 77
56 Toast Titanium www.roxio.com What is a Data Disc? A data disc is a CD, DVD, or Blu-ray disc that contains files or folders. Data discs are meant to be used on a computer, such as a Mac or a PC. You can use a data disc to back up important information, to store your photos, or to share files with friends or family. Types of Data Discs Toast can create many kinds of data discs, choose the one that is best for your needs. Mac Only: This disc can be used only on a Macintosh computer.
Making Data Discs Types of Data Discs Photo Disc: This disc can be used on either a Macintosh or a Windows computer, and allows you to archive and share your photos. It preserves full-quality images, and on a Mac allows you to view full screen slideshows or import directly into your iPhoto library without the installation of additional software. See Making a Photo Disc on page 77. Note: When you launch Toast, the most commonly used projects are shown in the Toast Assistant.
58 Toast Titanium www.roxio.com Overview of Making a Data Disc This section describes the basic process of making any data disc with Toast. To make a data disc: 1 From the Assistant or the main Toast window, click Data. 2 Choose the disc format. For example, choose Mac Only. 3 Choose any optional settings. 4 Add files and folders to the disc by dragging and dropping them into the Content Area from your hard disk or the Media Browser.
Making Data Discs Burning Projects to Multiple Recorders Burning Projects to Multiple Recorders Toast now includes support for burning most projects to multiple CD, DVD, or Blu-ray recorders at the same time. The steps here apply to all disc projects where Multiple Recorder Support is available, including Data, Audio, Video, and Copy projects.
60 Toast Titanium www.roxio.com Note: Depending on your system, the number of drives used, and how they are connected to your computer (internally, USB, FireWire) you may see different levels of performance. Burning to several recorders at the same time in some configurations may result in poor write speeds and a burn time longer than burning each disc individually.
Making Data Discs Making a Mac Only Disc Making a Mac Only Disc This type of disc can contain any files or folders and can only be used on a Macintosh computer. It supports features such as data spanning, compression, encryption, custom icons, and backgrounds. This is the best choice for saving your data, provided that you will not need to access the contents of this disc on a Windows computer. To make a Mac Only disc: 1 From the Assistant or the main Toast window, click Data.
62 Toast Titanium www.roxio.com 4 Click More for additional optional settings: Disc Name: Type a name for the disc. Icon: Choose a custom icon for the disc. (See Custom Icons and Backgrounds on page 64.) Disc View: Choose the default Finder view for this disc: icon, list, or browser. Background: Choose a custom background color or picture for the disc. (See Custom Icons and Backgrounds on page 64.
Making Data Discs Making a Mac Only Disc Compression and Encryption If you are recording a Mac Only data disc that does not span multiple discs, you can compress and encrypt the contents prior to recording. You can access the disc contents on any Mac OS X system. Toast is not required to decompress or decrypt the contents. To compress a Mac Only disc: 1 Prepare your disc as you normally would. See Making a Mac Only Disc on page 61.
64 Toast Titanium www.roxio.com To access an encrypted disc: 1 Insert the disc into a drive. The disc contains a single file containing the contents of the disc. 2 Double-click the encrypted file. 3 When prompted, enter the password and click OK. The file will decrypt to the desktop.
Making Data Discs Making a Mac Only Disc 4 Click OK. 5 Click the red Burn button. The disc is recorded with the custom icon. To set a custom background: 1 Prepare your disc as you normally would. See Making a Mac Only Disc on page 61 or Making a Mac & PC Disc on page 67. 2 If necessary, click the Options button at the upper-right side of the Toast window to reveal the Options panel. Click More. The data disc settings dialog appears and the current disc background is shown.
66 Toast Titanium www.roxio.com Removing a file from the Toast window does not delete the file from your hard disk, but only on the finished disc that you are creating. To create a new folder in the Content Area: Click the New Folder button at the bottom of the Toast window. To rearrange files or folders in the Content Area: 1 Select the files or folders you want to rearrange. 2 Drag-and-drop selected files or folders into new locations in the Content Area.
Making Data Discs Making a Mac & PC Disc Making a Mac & PC Disc This type of disc can be used either on a Macintosh or a Windows computer. This is the best choice for sharing files and folders with most computer users. To make a Mac & PC disc: 1 From the Assistant or the main Toast window, click Data. 2 From the Assistant, double-click Mac & PC. From the main Toast window, choose Mac & PC from the format selection menu.
68 Toast Titanium www.roxio.com 8 Optional: Change the destination recorder and number of copies at the bottom of the screen. 9 Click the red Burn button at the bottom right of the Toast window. Toast displays a progress bar and status information as it records your disc. Enabling Autorun If you are creating a Mac and PC data disc, you can select a Windows executable file to launch automatically when the disc is inserted into a Windows PC.
Making Data Discs Making a Mac & PC Disc Disc Spanning If you are creating a Mac Only or Mac & PC data disc, you can record large files and folders, even if they exceed the recording capacity of a single disc. If you do, Toast advises you of approximately how many blank discs are needed, and automatically spans the data across them. The completed group of discs is called a disc set. Each disc in the set contains an index of the contents and location for every file and folder in the set.
70 Toast Titanium www.roxio.com Some individual files may exceed the capacity of a single disc and will be split into multiple files. Roxio Restore automatically joins these split files back together. To restore files and folders (using Mac OS X v10.5 or higher): 1 Insert any disc from the set into a Macintosh computer. You will see the Roxio Restore application and a folder containing a portion of the data in the disc set. 2 Launch the Roxio Restore application.
Making Data Discs Making a Mac & PC Disc To restore files and folders from a Mac & PC disc set (using Windows) 1 Insert any disc from the set into a PC running Windows XP or higher. In some cases, Roxio Restore opens automatically. If a Windows Autoplay dialog box opens, click Run RRLauncher.exe to open Roxio Restore. You will see a directory of every folder and file in the disc set—in the same order and hierarchy as they were when you recorded the discs.
72 Toast Titanium www.roxio.com Making a DVD-ROM Disc This type of disc can be used on a Macintosh or a Windows computer; if it contains valid DVD-Video content, it can also be used in a set-top DVD player. This disc format is best if you have a VIDEO_TS folder and wish to add additional DVD-ROM data content. If you have a VIDEO_TS folder and you wish to create a DVD-Video (and optionally compress the folder to fit on a DVD), you should use the VIDEO_TS Folders format.
Making Data Discs Making a Custom Hybrid Disc Making a Custom Hybrid Disc This type of disc can be used either on a Macintosh or a Windows computer, and offers powerful layout customization options for professionals such that: Certain Macintosh data will be visible only to Macintosh users. Certain Windows data will be visible only to Windows users. Users of both Macintosh and Windows can share some data.
74 Toast Titanium www.roxio.com portion of the disc. In this case they are visible on both Macintosh and Windows computers, although they are only written to the disc once. 8 Click Settings and choose Joliet (MS-DOS + Windows) for the disc Naming and choose Use Apple Extensions. 9 Click Done. 10 Insert a blank, recordable CD, DVD, or Blu-ray disc. 11 Optional: Change the destination recorder and number of copies at the bottom of the screen.
Making Data Discs Making a Mac Volume Disc Making a Mac Volume Disc This type of disc can be used only on a Macintosh computer and requires a valid volume file as a data source. You can use Mac Volume to copy an entire volume (hard disk, partition, etc.) to a disc exactly as it is. You cannot make a bootable Mac Volume disc. For making a simple disc to use on a Macintosh computer, use Mac Only format. See Making a Mac Only Disc on page 61.
76 Toast Titanium www.roxio.com You can also select local disc volumes that have the comment “ok to write.” Other volumes are either remote or too large for a disc. Optimize On-the-Fly: Select this option for Toast to automatically defragment the data and organize it on the disc prior to recording. This is recommended only for Mac OS Standard volumes. Selecting this option for a Mac OS Extended volume creates a standard volume. All long file names and extended attributes will be lost.
Making Data Discs Making a Photo Disc Making a Photo Disc This type of disc can be used in either a Macintosh or Windows computer.
78 Toast Titanium www.roxio.com To play back your images as a slideshow (using Mac OS X v10.4 or higher): 1 Insert your Photo disc into a Macintosh computer. The disc folder opens. 2 Double-click the Slideshow icon to begin the slideshow. Note: Toast does not need to be installed on the computer to play back the slideshow. To play back your images as a slideshow (using Windows XP): 1 Insert your Photo disc into a PC running Windows XP.
Making Data Discs Using Toast Dynamic Writing Using Toast Dynamic Writing Toast Dynamic Writing allows you to use a Blu-ray Rewritable disc (BD-RE) like any other removable storage device (such as an external hard disk drive or a USB flash drive). You can simply drag-and-drop files to the disc icon on the Desktop to record them, or drag files from the disc to delete them. To record to BD-RE media with Toast Dynamic Writing: 1 Launch Toast. 2 Insert a blank BD-RE disc into your Blu-ray recorder.
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81 Making Audio Discs In this chapter What is an Audio Disc? 82 Types of Audio Discs 82 Overview of Making an Audio Disc 83 Making an Audio CD 84 Making a Music DVD 89 Making an MP3 Disc 94 Making an Enhanced Audio CD 95 Making a Mixed Mode CD 96
82 Toast Titanium www.roxio.com What is an Audio Disc? An audio disc is a CD or DVD that contains audio files. Audio discs are meant to be played in a home or car stereo, a set-top DVD player, or a Macintosh or Windows computer. Types of Audio Discs Toast can create many kinds of audio discs—more than any other Mac burning software. Audio CD: This CD can be played in most home or car stereo CD players, set-top DVD players, and computers.
Making Audio Discs Overview of Making an Audio Disc Overview of Making an Audio Disc This section describes the basic process of making any audio disc with Toast. Tip: Discs can be burned to more than one recorder at a time. For more information, see Burning Projects to Multiple Recorders on page 59. To make an audio disc: 1 From the Assistant or the main Toast window, click Audio. 2 Choose the disc format. For example, choose Audio CD. 3 Choose any optional settings.
84 Toast Titanium www.roxio.com Making an Audio CD This disc can be played in most home or car stereo CD players, set-top DVD players, and computers. This is similar to a standard commercial CD you can purchase in music stores. This is the best choice for playback in a CD player. To make an Audio CD: 1 From the Assistant or the main Toast window, click Audio. 2 From the Assistant, double-click Audio CD. From the main Toast window, choose Audio CD from the format selection menu.
Making Audio Discs Making an Audio CD Working With Tracks You can move tracks across multiple discs, adjust pauses between tracks, as well as preview, rearrange, remove, and rename tracks in the Content Area. To span an Audio CD project across multiple CDs: An audio CD can contain up to 99 tracks. Up to 80 minutes of audio can be recorded on a standard 700MB CD-R. While you can’t exceed that amount of audio, you can arrange tracks so that they’re burned onto multiple CDs.
86 Toast Titanium www.roxio.com To preview tracks: Select the track to highlight it, and the click the Play button in the playback controls at the bottom of the Toast window. To rearrange tracks: 1 Select the tracks you want to rearrange. 2 Drag the tracks to a new position in the track list. A black bar between tracks indicates where the tracks will be placed.
Making Audio Discs Making an Audio CD To remove tracks: 1 Select the tracks you want to remove. 2 Remove the selected tracks in any of these ways: Click the Remove files button. Press Delete. Choose Edit > Clear. The selected tracks are removed from the Content Area, but the originals are not deleted from your hard disk or your iTunes library.
88 Toast Titanium www.roxio.com Working with Crossfades A crossfade is a transition from one track to the next. In a crossfade, the two adjacent tracks overlap each other, and the first track fades out while the second fades in. You define fades and crossfades using the controls available in the track list. Like all editing features in Toast, crossfades are nondestructive. To create a crossfade: 1 Create an audio CD project and add your audio tracks to the Content Area. See Making an Audio CD on page 84.
Making Audio Discs Making a Music DVD Making a Music DVD A Music DVD can be played in a set-top DVD player or in a Macintosh or a Windows computer with a DVD player. A Music DVD should not be confused with a DVD-Audio disc. DVD-Audio discs require a special DVD player. A Music DVD is a standard DVD that contains music (and can also contain photo slideshows and videos), has full navigation menus for song selection, and can be played in any set-top DVD player.
90 Toast Titanium www.roxio.com Include DVD-ROM content: Select this option to include additional data in the ROM portion of the disc. This data will be accessible when the disc is used on a Macintosh or Windows computer. For more information, see Adding ROM data to a DVDVideo Disc on page 36. Click Customize for additional menu settings. See Video Disc Settings on page 33. 4 Choose the audio encoding format. By default, Toast encodes Music DVDs in Dolby Digital 192 kbps audio.
Making Audio Discs Making a Music DVD Working With Playlists Each group of audio files you add into the Content Area appears as a playlist. Each playlist will have a button in the DVD menu that you can choose to play the music. Playlists can contain up to 99 tracks. You can rearrange, duplicate, remove, or edit playlists. To rearrange playlists: 1 Select the playlist you want to rearrange. 2 Drag the playlist to a new position in the Content Area.
92 Toast Titanium www.roxio.com Tip: You can also drag images from Toast’s Media Browser, but the browser must be undocked. To undock the browser, click the small button in the top-right corner of Toast’s main window. 5 Select the playlist (not the album artwork), and click Set Button Picture. The selected graphic will appear on the TV screen while a track in the playlist is playing if that track has no album artwork.
Making Audio Discs Making a Music DVD To add album artwork, drag-and-drop an image file from your hard disk or from a web page, to the area that says “Drag Album Artwork Here.” This artwork appears on the TV screen while the track is playing. If the track already has album artwork in iTunes it will appear here. There are several utilities that can automatically add album artwork to tracks in your iTunes library. Search for “iTunes art” at download.cnet.com for options.
94 Toast Titanium www.roxio.com Making an MP3 Disc This disc can be played in home or car stereo MP3 Disc players, compatible set-top disc players, and most Macintosh and Windows computers. A typical audio CD can hold over 70 minutes of music, while an MP3 CD can hold over 10 hours and an MP3 DVD can hold over 50 hours. An MP3 BD can hold hundreds of hours of music.
Making Audio Discs Making an Enhanced Audio CD Making an Enhanced Audio CD An Enhanced Audio CD contains audio tracks and enhanced data content such as photos or videos. The audio portion of the disc is playable in home and car stereo CD players, while the enhanced content is usable on a Macintosh or Windows computer. Some older CD-ROM drives cannot recognize these discs. If this is the case, you can make a Mixed Mode CD, which is similar to an Enhanced Audio CD except it only has one session.
96 Toast Titanium www.roxio.com Making a Mixed Mode CD A Mixed Mode CD contains one data track and one or more audio tracks, and is recorded in one session. You can play the audio or view the data on a computer. Mixed Mode CDs should not be played in a home or car stereo CD player and may damage your speakers. To make a Mixed Mode CD: 1 From the main Toast window, click Audio. 2 Choose Mixed Mode CD from the format selection menu.
97 Copying Discs In this chapter Types of Copies 98 Overview of Making a Copy 98 Copying a Disc 99 Copying a Disc Image File 100 Merging Disc Images 102
98 Toast Titanium www.roxio.com Types of Copies Toast can copy many kinds of discs and image files—more than any other Mac burning software. Disc Copy: Copy a non-protected CD, DVD, or Blu-ray disc to another disc. This is the best choice for most copies. See Copying a Disc on page 99. Image File: Copy a disc image file to a CD, DVD, or Blu-ray disc. See Copying a Disc Image File on page 100. Disc Image Merge: Merges a Mac disc image and a PC disc image into a hybrid disc copy.
Copying Discs Copying a Disc Copying a Disc You can make a copy of non-protected data, audio and video CDs, DVDs, and Blu-ray discs. Note: Disc Copy is available on Mac OS X 10.9 or later. To copy a CD, DVD, or Blu-ray disc: 1 From the Assistant or the main Toast window, click Copy. 2 From the Assistant, double-click Disc Copy. From the main Toast window, choose Disc Copy from the format selection menu.
100 Toast Titanium www.roxio.com 6 Click the red Copy button, choose a recorder from the list, and configure recording options, such as Number of Copies. 7 Click Record to continue. 8 When prompted, insert a blank, recordable disc of the same type as the source disc. Toast displays a progress bar and status information as it copies your disc.
Copying Discs Copying a Disc Image File 5 Insert a blank, recordable disc. 6 Click the red Copy button, choose a recorder from the list, and configure recording options, such as Number of Copies. 7 Click Record to continue. Toast displays a progress bar and status information as it copies your disc.
102 Toast Titanium www.roxio.com Merging Disc Images Disc Image Merge is useful for software developers who need to produce cross-platform Mac & PC discs with unique content for each platform, and who are producing unique images on each platform. You can create your Mac disc image using Toast, and you can create your PC disc image with popular PC software, such as Roxio Creator® 2011. To merge disc images: 1 From the main Toast window, click Copy.
103 Converting Media In this chapter Why convert audio and video? 104 Converting DVD-Video Content 105 Changing Convert Options 106 Converting Video Files 107 Creating Custom Profiles 109 VideoBoost 111 Converting Audio Files 113 Converting Audiobooks 114
104 Toast Titanium www.roxio.com Why convert audio and video? Audio and video files are available in a wide variety of formats. While your computer may support many of these formats, other devices, portable video players, and file sharing websites may only support a limited number. Toast will help you convert audio and video while optimizing them for playback on a broad selection of portable devices including the iPad and iPhone and websites such as YouTube, Vimeo, and Facebook.
Converting Media Converting DVD-Video Content Converting DVD-Video Content This section describes the basic process of converting a DVD-Video disc to another video format with Toast. Converted files can be saved on your computer, sent directly to iTunes, or uploaded to several popular websites. To convert a DVD-Video disc: 1 From the Assistant or the main Toast window, click Convert. 2 From the Assistant, double-click DVD Disc. From the main Toast window, choose DVD Disc from the format selection menu.
106 Toast Titanium www.roxio.com Changing Convert Options Convert options allow you to choose which movies, extras, and languages will be included when converting video content. When converting video, the video file which is created can only have one audio language. By default this is the same language that you hear when you playback the DVD-Video source. To change convert options: 1 Click the Options button.
Converting Media Converting Video Files Converting Video Files Toast can convert video files to a variety of different formats and save them to your hard disk, add them directly to iTunes, or publish them directly to a video sharing site. To convert video files: 1 From the Assistant or the main Toast window, click Convert. 2 From the Assistant, double-click Video Files. From the main Toast window, choose Video Files from the format selection menu.
108 Toast Titanium www.roxio.com Internet Formats: Have your video converted and automatically published to a video sharing site or converted to FLV or F4V video for Adobe Flash. On the final step of publishing, you may be prompted for additional information including title, description, and privacy options which vary depending on the online service you choose, such as YouTube, Vimeo, or Facebook.
Converting Media Creating Custom Profiles 9 If you have selected a website as the destination, you will be asked to enter your account information and to provide an optional title and description for the video. The Privacy drop-down menu allows you to determine who can access the file. You also have the option to send a tweet alerting your Twitter followers that the video has been posted.
110 Toast Titanium www.roxio.com Note: You can add and remove Custom Profiles by using the and (+) and remove (-) buttons at the bottom left of the Custom Video Export Profiles screen.
Converting Media VideoBoost VideoBoost VideoBoost allows you to take advantage of the unused processing power in modern graphics cards to speed up your H.264 video conversions— which is ideal when you’re creating video for your iPad, iPhone, AppleTV or any device with H.264 playback. To take advantage of VideoBoost, your computer must have a supported NVIDIA graphics card. For optimal performance, 4GB of RAM is recommended.
112 Toast Titanium www.roxio.com 5 If you have a supported NVIDIA graphics card, you will see a new option in this window. Ensure the new Use VideoBoost option is enabled by placing a check mark in the checkbox, if there is not one already present. 6 Choose any additional settings and convert your video. Toast displays a progress bar and status information and will display VideoBoost in the progress window if VideoBoost is being used.
Converting Media Converting Audio Files Converting Audio Files Toast can convert audio files to a variety of different formats and export the converted file to your hard disk or connected device. To export audio: 1 From the Assistant or the main Toast window, click Convert. 2 From the Assistant, double-click Audio Files. From the main Toast window, choose Audio Files from the format selection menu.
114 Toast Titanium www.roxio.com 8 Click Options to further refine the audio settings. 9 Click Save and your audio will be converted. Toast displays a progress bar and status information as it exports the audio. Converting Audiobooks The Audiobook project converts an audiobook on CD to digital files you can play using iTunes, an iPod, or many other portable devices. To convert an audiobook: 1 From the Assistant or the main Toast window, click Convert. 2 From the Assistant, double-click Audiobook.
115 Index A AAC files, adding to an audio disc 83 Add button about 7 adding photos to slideshows 28 adding ROM data to a DVD-Video disc 36 advanced recorder settings 14 AIFF files, adding to an audio disc 83 Android converting video for playback on Android devices 107 AppleTV converting video for playback on 107 aspect ratio 35 audio CDs about 82 creating 84 See also audio discs audio discs about 82 creating 83 types of 82 audio effects adding to video files 46 audio encoding options DVD 38 music DVD 90
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Toast Titanium Index buttons 35 I icons customizing 64 image files copying 100 mounting 51 saving 50 importing video 32 installing Toast 2 iPad converting video for playback on 107 iPhone converting video for playback on 107 L layout of data controlling 53 Live Screen Capture 17 M Mac & PC data discs about 56 creating 67 restoring 69 See also data discs Mac and PC disc images producing 102 Mac Only data discs about 56 creating 61 restoring 69 See also data discs Mac volume data discs about 56 creating
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Toast Titanium Index adding to slideshows 28 copying to a video disc 34, 89 deleting from slideshows 28 reorganizing in slideshows 28 playing disc automatically (option) 89 playing back slideshows 78 playlists working with 91 Plug & Burn using 32 previewing tracks 86 product support obtaining 2 profiles creating custom video conversion profiles 109 projects saving and opening 15 slideshows 28 tracks 86 videos 29 record button about 6 recorders burning to multiple recorders at the same time 59 changing set
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Toast Titanium Index video conversion pausing 112 resuming 112 scheduling 108 video discs about 22 creating 23 settings 33 types of 22 video encoding options 37 video quality settings 37 video discs 25 VIDEO_TS compilations about creating from multiple Video_TS folders 22 VIDEO_TS folders about DVDs created from 22 creating DVDs from 40 VideoBoost 111 viewing disc information 50 track information 87 W WAV files adding to an audio disc 83 windows controlling display of 53 customizing background for discs 6
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