User Reviews

1. Review Date: 2009-09-22

   The manual leaves something to be desired, however: after several trial and errors I managed to extract portions of a video TS folder and only use the portions of the video that I wanted. Have not yet figured out how to add music to the DVD. But the menu and formatting went well and worked on my TV DVD on the first try. I'm sure it can do much more than I know how. It certainly is not as easy to use as iDVD or iMovie,and certainly not as fast - but it does convert some oddball files into a usable DVD format. If you have patience and time I recommend this product,
   
   User: L. Winzeler
   Rating:
   Summary: Toast 10 Roxio Titanium Pro
   Helpful Votes: 2
   Total Votes: 2
   

2. Review Date: 2009-09-17

   I upgraded from Toast 8 to Toast 10 because when upgrading to Mac OS 10.5, CD SpinDoctor from TOast 8 would crash when defining tracks. I figured that the newer version of CD SpinDoctor would work better with the newer operating system. The upgrade to CD SpinDoctor solved the crashing problem when defining tracks but introduced numerous other problems. The waveform after recording an album was nonexistent. When saving a file, CD SpinDoctor would only save the first 5-10 minutes of the file. The rest would be lost as well as the track definitions and song titles. There's a place where you can put in data about each track (song title, artist, track number of..., disc number of ...). The only data that I could get to transfer to iTunes were the title and artist. No other data was passed to iTunes. At one point, the crash reporter counted 45 crashes since the last report. (I've owned the software for about a week.)
   
   The only way to get CD SpinDoctor to display waveforms correctly was to reinstall system software. (I still couldn't save files under any circumstances.) Then I upgraded iTunes to version 9, QuickTIme to version 7.6.4, and applied the Apple provided security update. The waveform display problem returned. (A third party program should not stop working when applying relative minor system updates!) Given all of these problems, CD SpinDoctor is useless and that program was the reason I upgraded. It's probably the best solution for converting vinyl to digital if the program would work correctly. (Other programs like Audacity also work well but become too complex when I want to just record an album, divide it into tracks, and sent the tracks directly to iTunes with the metadata intact.)
   
   I did interact with Roxio Technical support with this and that was also a disappointment. I opened a trouble ticket, explained the problem and then explained what I had done to fix it. It was obvious that the tech did not read my ticket completely because the tech suggested I do what I had already had attempted and reported earlier. This happened on at least two occasions. I did speak with a live person once who was very understanding, listened and sent me several things to try. All did nothing to alleviate the problem.
   
   Since CD SpinDoctor was not able to save any files, I was unable to try the other programs in the package (Sound Soap to clean up files, Toast to burn audio CDs). If the other software programs are as fragile as CD SpinDoctor, it doesn't seem worth my time.
   
   I will be attempting a refund but based on other users' experiences, I think I'm in for a long road. I'll be going back to Toast 8 and just be defining tracks manually instead of automatically to avoid crashes.
   
   User: Disappointed With Toast 10
   Rating:
   Summary: Disappointing
   Helpful Votes: 6
   Total Votes: 6
   

3. Review Date: 2009-09-10

   I was very frustrated at first with toast pro. when I first got it, It does to many different things and it was overwhelming.
   I decided to just do one thing a week. Started burning music cd's in different formats. Different conversions,
   i found i had to learn what qualities were good on mac and there are alot of choices. Remember I'm still just talking music.
   Some of the frustration
   on these boards are pc and mac differences. Formats are different and many don't work at all with each other.
   Toast is trying to bridge this mess of two different systems.Hundreds of different possibilities of formats.
   You can't learn this over night.
   It's to bad we can't get pc and mac together on formats and make something great and easy.
   I am now on video. Again different formats. The is best blue ray, but than only certain people can view,
   DVD good for most home viewing, but what is a very good quality that I can post on my website that both
   pc and mac users can view. Good luck. Anyway The slow approach is working for me. wanted to throw this product
   away but Now I think it is Great. It does take lots of time. Yes the support is poor for most products. We are on our own.
   Let's help each other.
   Thanks "Spinner's End" Great reviews!
   
   User: Joseph
   Rating:
   Summary: Joey
   Helpful Votes: 1
   Total Votes: 1
   

4. Review Date: 2009-08-13

   NO SUPPORT!!! They do not support their product. I have received no reply after a week of sending multiple help messages. TERRIBLE SUPPORT! Dr. Sherri Turner
   
   User: Dean W. Turner
   Rating:
   Summary: NO SUPPORT!!!!
   Helpful Votes: 3
   Total Votes: 4
   

5. Review Date: 2009-06-18

   Roxio Toast 10 Titanium Pro
   
   Please, please, please SAVE your money and buy something else... ANYTHING else that doesn't have the ROXIO name stamped on it. These products all have flaws in them... and if they don't in the beginning, somehow they are acquired after a couple of uses.
   
   So, when these problems do arise, and I assure you they will... Best of luck getting any help from ROXIO. You bought their product already, so they're finished with you, you don't matter anymore. They're walking away with your money laughing! NO PRODUCT SUPPORT WHATSOEVER!
   
   Trust me, don't waste your time... Take it from someone that's experienced this already.
   
   User: J. Sumner
   Rating:
   Summary: Roxio products are awful!
   Helpful Votes: 8
   Total Votes: 10
   

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Editorial Reviews

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

Product Details

1. Roxio Toast 10 Titanium Pro includes all the power of Toast 10 Titanium, plus Blu-ray video authoring and four award-winning applications
2. 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
3. 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
4. Save and convert video from many popular video sharing websites
5. Automatically capture and tag streaming audio from the Internet right into your iTunes library