User manual

Toast Titanium
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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.
For notebook computers with NVIDIA graphics cards, you should also
ensure you’ve selected the Higher performance option in the Energy Saver
options within System Preferences. If you do not select High performance
when this option is available, VideoBoost performance will be significantly
reduced. If you do not see this option in Energy Saver, no additional steps
are needed. You may need to restart your computer after modifying this
setting.
To use VideoBoost when converting video:
1 Ensure your Apple computer has a compatible NVIDIA graphics card.
You can check what type of graphics card you have by clicking on the
Apple at the top left of your screen, choosing About This Mac, and
clicking More Info. This will launch the System Profiler application.
Click on Graphics/Displays under Hardware at the left side and
available graphics cards will be shown in the System Profiler window.
A list of compatible cards can be found at www.roxio.com/toast.
2 Download and install the latest NVIDIA CUDA driver for Mac directly
from NVIDIA. To find the driver, go to
www.nvidia.com and navigate
to the Download Drivers section.
3 Restart your computer.
Tip: At the time of publication, you could also go directly to
www.nvidia.com/object/mac-driver-archive.html and
download the latest driver at the top of the screen.
4 Launch Toast and create your Convert > Video Files project. Once you
are ready to begin converting video, click the red Convert button.
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