![]() ![]() If you have Elgato’sĮyeTV ( ) DVR software installed, the Media Browser will also show you TV shows that EyeTV has archived. Instead of the drawers, you’ll now find a Media Browser, a floating window that gives you access to the music, photos, and video content you want to put on disc, showing you the contents of your iPhoto library, for example, or your Movies folder. The developers have also reworked the interface, removing the clunky drawer motif of Toast 7 and cleanly exposing all of the major features. Scaling text effects inside the Toast window show you what kind of files you can manipulate using the different data, audio, video, and copying features of Toast. Roxio offers a 20 rebate to almost anyone (OS X users, iLife users, Roxio or Sonic customers), but current Toast. Roxio has taken pains to simplify the interface. With all this new functionality you might expect Toast 8 Titanium to be more difficult to use, but you’d be wrong. And Toast can even recover files from damaged discs-it can read data from CDs and DVDs that the Finder can’t decipher. Toast now keeps track of which files you’ve stored on which burned discs using the accompanying DiscCatalogMaker RE application, so you can locate content more easily once you’ve offloaded it and put the disc away. Toast installs a small Mac OS X- and Windows-compatible application called Roxio Restore alongside the archived data, so when you want to recover files you’ve backed up to CD or DVD, you don’t need Toast to make it happen-you just need the disc itself. As before, you can span data across more than one CD or DVD. Toast 8 Titanium works better as a file archival and backup system in this new version, too. You can now create DJ-style cross-fades and transitions, process audio you import from analog sources such as vinyl records and cassettes (to remove hisses and pops, for example), normalize volume levels, and trim your tracks. If you use Toast to burn audio CDs, you’ll find a lot of improvements in that area as well-including some you previously had to pay extra for by buying Roxio’s Jam, a separate audio-recording application. You’re writing files directly to the Blu-ray disc in real time, as if it were a 25GB or 50GB hard disk drive. Unlike with conventional DVD-R writing, you’re not copying files to a cache or alias location. Toast Dynamic Writing lets you see a Blu-ray disc in the Finder, so you can copy files from there as well. Toast does indeed offer this support, and Roxio has extended it beyond the confines of the Toast application.
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