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Contents

Getting Started 1
Installing The Software . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
The Toast Main Window. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
Burning Your First Disc With Toast . . . . . . . . . 5
Converting Video. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
Choosing the Right Project . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
About Discs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
Using the Media Browser . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
Changing Recorder Settings . . . . . . . . . . . 13
Saving and Opening Toast Projects. . . . . . 14
Erasing Discs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
Ejecting a Disc . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
Toast Extras . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
Technical Support Options . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19

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Making Video Discs 21

Using Other Toast Features 51

Making Data Discs 57

Types of Video Discs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22
Overview of Making a Video Disc. . . . . . . 23
Making a video disc with MyDVD . . . . . . . 24
Making a DVD or BD Video Disc . . . . . . . . 25
Using Plug & Burn . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33
Making a DVD From VIDEO_TS Folders . . . 41
Making a VIDEO_TS Compilation. . . . . . . . 44
Making a BDMV Folder Disc . . . . . . . . . . . . 45
Creating an AVCHD Archive . . . . . . . . . . . 46
Making a video with Web Video Capture 47
Making a video with Live Screen Capture 48
Editing videos with Toast Slice . . . . . . . . . . 48
Editing Video . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48

Saving Disc Images . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Mounting Disc Images . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Comparing Files or Folders . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Creating a Temporary Partition . . . . . . . . .

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What is a Data Disc?. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58

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Types of Data Discs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Overview of Making a Data Disc . . . . . . .
Burning Projects to Multiple Recorders . . .
Making a Mac Only Disc . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Making a Mac & PC Disc . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Making a DVD-ROM (UDF) Disc . . . . . . . . .
Making an ISO 9660 Disc . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Making a Photo Disc . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Encrypting a disc with Roxio Secure Burn.
Using Toast Dynamic Writing . . . . . . . . . . .

Making Audio Discs 79

Copying Discs 95

What is an Audio Disc? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Types of Audio Discs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Overview of Making an Audio Disc . . . . .
Making an Audio CD . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Making a Music DVD . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Making an MP3 Disc . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Making an Enhanced Audio CD . . . . . . . .

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Types of Copies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 96
Overview of Making a Copy . . . . . . . . . . . 96
Copying a Disc . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97
Copying a Disc Image File . . . . . . . . . . . . . 98
Merging Disc Images . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 100

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Converting Media 101
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 . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

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Getting Started

In this chapter
Introduction

Installing The Software

The Toast Main Window

Burning Your First Disc With Toast

Converting Video

Choosing the Right Project

Using the Media Browser

Changing Recorder Settings

Saving and Opening Toast Projects

Erasing Discs

Ejecting a Disc

Toast Extras

Technical Support Options

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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. Alternatively, if you have the Pro
version of the product, additional functionality is available. For more
information, see Toast Extras on page 16.
For additional information, choose Help > Product Support.

Installing The Software
To use Toast you will need the following hardware and software:
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Internet connection required for installation, registration and
updates. Registration required for product use

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•Mac computer with an Intel processor

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•1 GB RAM recommended (2 GB RAM for Pro)

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•Requires Mac OS X 10.10 and above

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•Approximately 1 GB (5 GB for Pro) of free space to install all
components

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•VideoBoost requires a compatible NVIDIA card and 4GB of RAM for
optimal performance

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•DVD drive required for installation (Box versions only)

Installations of iTunes, iPhoto and iMovie are recommended.
To install the software:
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Double-click on the downloaded .DMG file or insert the installation
DVD into your drive.
The Roxio® Toast® window appears on your desktop.

Double-click the Toast installer.

Getting Started
The Toast Main Window

Follow the instructions on screen to complete the installation.

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.

Double-click the Toast icon and follow the on-screen instructions to
set up Toast for the first time.

Additional Software Installed
If you have purchased the Pro edition of Toast, your installation includes a
Pro Apps folder with additional software. For more information, see Toast
Extras on page 16.

The Toast Main Window
The Toast main window contains the following components:
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Project Categories (1)
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. This area may be hidden if the Media
Browser is being shown. To reveal the options area, simply click on the
Options button at the top right of the window.

Media Browser (4)
The Media Browser allows you to easily browse or find music, photos,
video, or other files, and preview or add them to a Toast project. On first
launch this window will be hidden. To bring up the Media Browser, click
the Media button at the top of the Options area. This will hide the options
and reveal the Media Browser.
The Media Browser can also be separated from the Toast main window by
clicking the icon to the right of the Media button. This allows you to use
the Media Browser while the Options area is visible. The features and
options available vary depending on your version of the software.

Space Indicator (5)
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.

Burn Button (6)
Located at the bottom right of the Toast window, the red Burn button will
begin burning your disc. For video conversion projects, this will also begin
exporting your video. The name and function of the button can vary by
project. For example, in the Convert category it acts as a Convert button to
begin exporting your audio or 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 main Toast window,
select a project category.
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Data — Put any file or folder on a disc for archiving or backup
purposes, for use in a Mac, PC, or any computer. See Making
Data Discs on page 57.

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Audio — Make an audio CD, music DVD or MP3 disc for use in a
computer, home or car stereo, or set-top DVD player. See Making
Audio Discs on page 79.

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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.

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Copy — Copy a CD, DVD, BD, or disc image file. See Copying
Discs on page 95.

Select the disc format and settings. Choose the disc project
from the Format selection menu and any optional settings.

Format selection
menu
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Add content. Drag-and-drop files and folders into the Content Area
from your hard disk or the Media Browser.

Insert a recordable disc. Insert a blank, recordable CD, DVD, or
Blu-ray Disc.

Record the disc. Select a recorder from the Destination menu at
the bottom of the Toast window if the one you are using is not
already listed, and click the red record button.
Toast displays a progress bar and status information as it records your
disc.
Tip: Choose Select Multiple Recorders at the bottom of the Toast
window to burn your project to multiple discs at the same time.
Note: Not all versions of Toast Titanium include Blu-ray
authoring.

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Converting Video

Converting Video
Toast can convert video files to a variety of different formats — or even
publish directly to popular video sharing sites.
To convert video:
1

From the main Toast window, choose the Convert project category.

Select Video Files from the format selection menu.

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.

Click the red Convert button at the bottom right-hand corner of the
screen.

From the window that appears, choose the format and destination
for your video. Some of the most commonly selected formats include
profiles for Apple TV, iPad, YouTube and Facebook.
Tip: Toast Titanium lets you to create custom video profiles. When
exporting a video, select New Custom Profile at the bottom of the list,
and you'll be able to create and manage your own custom export
profiles.
Tip: Toast Titanium includes VideoBoost technology to speed up
H.264 video exports. For more information, see VideoBoost on
page 108 or visit www.roxio.com/toast.

Choosing the Right Project
Toast can convert audio and video files and create discs in a wide variety of
CD, DVD, and Blu-ray Disc formats.

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authoring.
Here are some of the most commonly used projects.
I want to...

Use this disc format

Back up general data files and folders,
such as documents, photos and
spreadsheets, to use at a later time
only on a Mac.

Data > Mac Only. See Making a Mac
Only Disc on page 63.

Back up general data files and folders
to use at a later time on a Mac or a PC.

Data > Mac & PC. See Making a Mac &
PC Disc on page 69.

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 76.

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 82.

Listen to music from my iTunes library
in my DVD player.

Audio > Music DVD. See Making a
Music DVD on page 87.

Watch slideshows and video on my
TV.

Video > DVD-Video. See Making a
DVD or BD Video Disc on page 25.

Make a DVD from an existing
VIDEO_TS folder and compress it to fit
on the disc.

Video > VIDEO_TS Folders. See
Making a DVD From VIDEO_TS Folders
on page 41.

Burn HD video to a standard DVD for
playback on a Blu-ray Disc player.

Video > Blu-ray Video. See Making a
DVD or BD Video Disc on page 25.

Copy a CD, DVD or Blu-ray disc to
another disc.

Copy > Disc Copy. See Copying a Disc
on page 97.

Create a high-definition Blu-ray video
disc for watching on a Blu-ray Disc
player.

Video > Blu-ray Disc. See Making a
DVD or BD Video Disc on page 25.

Getting Started
About Discs

I want to...

Use this disc format

Publish home video to an online
sharing service such as YouTube or
Vimeo.

Convert > Video Files. See Converting
Video Files on page 105.

Rip audiobook CDs into iTunes for
listening on my Mac or iPod.

Convert > Audiobook. See Converting
Audiobooks on page 111.

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For all data disc formats see Types of Data Discs on page 58.

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For all audio disc formats, see Types of Audio Discs on page 80.

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For all video disc formats, see Types of Video Discs on page 22.

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For all copy formats, see Types of Copies on page 96.

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For all convert formats, see Converting Media on page 101.

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. Most CD recorders
also support rewritable (CD-RW) media, which can be erased and reused.
Although both CD-R and CD-RW media work well when creating discs for
use on a computer, most home and car stereo players cannot recognize
CD-RW media, so you should use CD-R when creating an audio CD.

DVD Media
If you have a DVD recorder, you can use blank DVD recordable (DVD-R or
DVD+R) media to create DVDs. DVDs hold about 4.7 GB of information.
Some DVD recorders support dual-layer recordable DVDs (DVD+R DL or
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also support rewritable (DVD-RW or DVD+RW) media, which can be
erased and reused.
Although all types work well when creating DVDs to use on a computer,
most set-top DVD players can only recognize some types. You should
check your DVD player documentation or search online to see which types
the device supports.
Using low-cost generic media can cause errors while burning, or produce a
disc that either is unrecognized by the player or plays back erratically.
Different brands of the same type can work differently in your recorder or
playback device. If you are having problems, you may need to switch to a
different brand or type (for example, if using DVD-RW, switch to DVD-R).

Blu-ray Discs
If you have a Blu-ray recorder, you can use blank Blu-ray disc (BD-R) media
to store data on Blu-ray discs which hold about 25 GB of information. Most
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.
Note: Not all versions of Toast Titanium include Blu-ray
authoring.

Using the Media Browser
The Toast Media Browser provides quick access to your music, photos,
videos, and other files stored on your computer. You can easily drag-anddrop content from the Media Browser into the Content Area. The features
and options available vary depending on your version of the software.
To use the Media Browser:
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Show the Media Browser window by clicking the Media button or
pressing Ctrl+S.

Getting Started
Using the Media Browser

Choose the type of media you want to browse:
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Data: Browse files and folders on your local hard disk, external
discs, or connected network volumes.

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Audio: Browse audio in your iTunes library.

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Video: Browse videos and iMovie projects in your Movies folder.
You can also browse:

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Non-encrypted DVD-Video discs, mounted disc images, or
VIDEO_TS folders located on your desktop or in your
Movies folder.

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High-definition video content stored on your connected
AVCHD camcorder or volume.

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Flash-based videos that have played in a web browser
while Toast is open. Click Web Video to view thumbnails of
all recorded videos.

Photos: Browse photos in your iPhoto, Aperture, or Lightroom
photo libraries.
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.

To search for files within a folder, enter a search term in the text field
at the bottom of the Media Browser window.

When browsing audio, photos, movies, or DVDs, you can filter the
media list by choosing a playlist, album, video or specific DVD, title or
chapter from the Media Browser browse menu.
Note: The Media Browser can also be separated from the Toast
main window by clicking the icon to the right of the Media
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Select any item in the file list and drag it to the Content Area to add it
to a disc project or click the Add button at the bottom of the Media
Browser.
You can select multiple items by holding down the Command (Apple)
key while clicking, and then drag the entire selection to the Content
Area.
You can select groups of items by clicking on the first item in the
group and then holding down the Shift key while clicking on the last
item in the group, and then dragging the entire selection to the
Content Area.
You can preview most media files by selecting them and pressing the
space bar, by double-clicking them in the file list, or by clicking the
Preview button at the bottom of the Media Browser.

Toast will display progress information while the items are being added. If
the content is being added from a disc (such as from a set-top DVD
recorder or AVCHD camcorder) this may take several minutes, as it is
imported from the disc onto your hard disk.
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 101. 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.

Configuring when Roxio Converted Items is
emptied
To adjust when the Roxio Converted Items is emptied:
1

Choose Toast Titanium > Preferences.

Click Storage.

Choose when you want to delete the converted items.

Close the preferences.

Getting Started
Changing Recorder Settings

Changing Recorder Settings
You can view or change your recorder settings, such as which recorder to
use for disc-based projects.
To change recorder settings:
1

Click the Recording Options button
window.

at the bottom of Toast’s main

Tip: You can make this window appear each time you burn a
disc by enabling Display Recorder Settings Before Writing on the
Advanced tab of the Recorder Settings window.
2

Click the Basic tab to change basic recording settings, including the
selected recorder, write speed, and number of copies. (The Basic tab
will be unavailable if you are using Multiple Recording burning.)

Click the Advanced tab to change advanced recording settings,
including:
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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.

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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 63.

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Enable Buffer Underrun Prevention: Select this option to
turn on buffer underrun prevention. A buffer underrun error
occurs when your hard disk is unable to send data fast enough
to the recorder while recording, causing the blank disc to be
unusable. This option is available only if your recorder supports
buffer underrun prevention.

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Use Simulation Mode: Select this option if you want to
simulate the process of recording a disc. You might do this to
make sure that the write speed you have selected is appropriate
for your computer.

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Verify Data: Select this option to verify that the contents of the
recorded disc match the source files and folders on your hard
disk.

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Catalog Disc Contents: Select to create a listing of all the
files burned onto the disc.

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Display Recorder Settings Before Writing: Select this
check box if you want to display the Recorder Settings dialog
each time you click the red record button.

Click the last tab to see information about the currently selected
recorder.

When you are finished, click OK.

Saving and Opening Toast Projects
You can save a Toast project and open it at a later time for recording to
disc.
To save the current project:
1

Choose File > Save.

Type a file name and select a location to save to.

Click Save. Saved Toast disc projects end in “.disc".

To open a saved project:
1

Choose File > Open.

Select the Toast project file you want to open.

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
Erasing Discs

Note: Toast saves pointers for the files and folders in the
content area. If you move or delete any of the original items from
your hard disk, Toast may not be able to find them when you
open the project. To save a single file containing all source files,
you should save as a disc image. See Saving Disc Images on
page 52.

Erasing Discs
If you are using rewritable CD-RW, DVD-RW, DVD+RW, DVD-RAM, or BD-RE
media, you can erase the entire contents of a disc and re-record to it.
Warning: Erasing a disc cannot be undone.

To erase a rewritable disc:
Insert the disc into the recorder.
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Choose Recorder > Erase.

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.

Ejecting a Disc
You can eject a disc from a recorder in any of these ways:
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Choose Recorder > Eject.

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Click the Eject button to the right of the recorder name.

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In the Recorder Settings dialog, click Eject.

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Drag the disc icon from the Desktop to the Trash in the Dock.

Toast Extras
Toast Titanium includes a number of additional applications to help you
capture, save, share, and enjoy your digital media. These applications can
be found in the Extras menu.
Extra applications include the following:
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DiscCatalogMaker RE

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Roxio Video Player

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Live Screen Capture

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MyDVD

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Toast Audio Assistant

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Roxio Secure Burn™

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Toast Slice

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MultiCam Capture

Pro extras
The Pro version of Toast includes the following applications and extras in
the Pro Apps folder (stored with the Toast installer package):
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WinZip 6 for Mac

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Blu-ray disc authoring

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Corel AfterShot™ 3 — RAW photo management and editing

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Corel Painter® Essentials™ 5— photo effects and painting



FotoMagico 5 RE — high-definition slideshows

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100+ Templates for Toast MyDVD®

Pro apps that you install can be accessed from the Toast Extras menu.

Getting Started
Toast Extras

Help for applications in the Extras menu
Information about Live Screen Capture is below. For information about
other applications, check the Help within the corresponding application.

Live Screen Capture
Live Screen Capture lets you record onscreen action for training,
demonstrations, or other video projects.

To capture screen action
1

Choose Extras > Live Screen Capture.

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.

Specify any of the following settings:
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Frame Rate — higher fps (frames per second) settings capture
smoother action, but create larger files

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Video Preset — lets you choose the resolution



Microphone input — select the check box to include voice



Mouse click animation — select the check box to capture the
onscreen pointer movement

Click the rec button

To pause or resume recording, press Shift+Command+1.

to start recording.

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To stop the recording, press Option+Command +1, type a filename,
choose where you want to save the file, and click Save.

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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.

Telephone and E-mail Support Options
Telephone and E-mail support may be available on a limited or paid basis
for your Roxio product. Registration of your product is required. To learn
what options are available, go to http://support.roxio.com, and click the
Contact Support link.

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Making Video Discs

In this chapter
What is a Video Disc?

Types of Video Discs

Overview of Making a Video Disc

Making a video disc with MyDVD

Making a DVD or BD Video Disc

Making a DVD From VIDEO_TS Folders

Making a VIDEO_TS Compilation

Making a BDMV Folder Disc

Creating an AVCHD Archive

Making a video with Web Video Capture

Making a video with Live Screen Capture

Editing videos with Toast Slice

Editing Video

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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.
Note: Not all versions of Toast Titanium include Blu-ray
authoring.
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MyDVD: You can use MyDVD to create multimedia disc projects,
complete with menus and music. See Making a video disc with
MyDVD on page 24.

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DVD-Video: This DVD can be played in a set-top DVD player or in a
Macintosh or a Windows computer with a DVD player. A DVD can
hold between 2 and 5 hours of video or slideshows and offers the
best quality and full navigation menus. This is the best choice for
playback in a DVD player. See Making a DVD or BD Video Disc on
page 25.

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Blu-ray Video: This Blu-ray Disc can be played in a set-top Blu-ray
player including some game consoles. Blu-ray video discs can contain
hours of high-definition video. This is the best choice for high
definition video playback if you have a Blu-ray player. See Making a
DVD or BD Video Disc on page 25.

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High Definition DVD-Video: This is a unique type of DVD which
allows you to author HD video to DVD, for playback in true high
definition on your Blu-ray player. See Making a High Definition DVD
on page 27.

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VIDEO_TS Folders: Use this project to create one or more DVDVideo discs, each from a separate Video-TS folder. See Making a DVD
From VIDEO_TS Folders on page 41.

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Overview of Making a Video Disc

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VIDEO_TS Compilation: Use this project to burn more than one
Video_TS folder onto a single DVD. The videos are processed in the
order they appear in the Content Area. See Making a VIDEO_TS
Compilation on page 44

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BDMV Folder: This is a Blu-ray video disc which is created by using a
valid BDMV video folder generated by another application. See
Making a BDMV Folder Disc on page 45.

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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 46.

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Web Video Capture: Create a DVD-Video disc with videos
captured with Toast from your web browser. See Making a video with
Web Video Capture on page 47.

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Live Screen Capture: Create a DVD from the video generated by
using Live Screen Capture and include voice-over. See Making a video
with Live Screen Capture on page 48.

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Toast Slice: You can use Toast Slice to easily identify parts of a video
file that you want to keep, trim out the parts you don’t want to keep,
and export the result as a video file or open it in Toast Titanium,
MyDVD, or iMovie. See Editing videos with Toast Slice on page 48.

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 61.
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From the main Toast window, click Video.

Chose the disc format. For example, choose DVD-Video.

Choose any optional settings.

Add files to the disc by dragging and dropping them into the Content
Area from your hard disk or the Media Browser, or by clicking the Add

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button at the bottom of the Media Browser window. (See Using the
Media Browser on page 10.)
You can add any QuickTime-supported video files, such as DV, AVI,
MOV, H.264, HDV (1080i/720p), and MPEG-4. You can also add files
that QuickTime doesn't support such as iMovie HD projects, MKV,
DivX Plus HD, AVCHD, AVCHD Lite, and EyeTV recordings.
To add an iMovie project, first save your project in iMovie. Next, select
Share > Media Browser and ensure that the Large size is selected.
After clicking Publish, your project will be available under Movies in
the Media Browser.
Each group of photos you add into the Content Area appears as a
slideshow. Each slideshow will have a button in the disc menu that
you can choose to play the slideshow. You can duplicate, rearrange,
remove, or edit slideshows. See Working With Slideshows on page 28
for more information.
Each video you add into the Content Area will have a button in the
disc menu that you can choose to play the video. You can duplicate,
rearrange, remove, or trim video. See Working With Videos on page 30
for more information.
Note: You can automatically import tape from a DV camcorder
for your disc. See Using Plug & Burn on page 33.
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Insert a blank, recordable disc.

Optional: Change the destination recorder and number of copies at
the bottom of the screen.

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.

Making a video disc with MyDVD
You open MyDVD from Toast Titanium and create multimedia disc
projects, complete with menus and music. You can create DVD-Video,
AVCHD, and Blu-ray (BDMV) video discs with MyDVD.

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To open MyDVD
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In Toast Titanium, from the Extras menu, choose MyDVD.
For instructions on how to use MyDVD, in the MyDVD application,
click Help > MyDVD User Guide.

Making a DVD or BD Video Disc
DVDs and Blu-ray Discs are both excellent choices for producing high
quality video discs with full menu navigation and Dolby Digital sound.
A standard DVD-Video can hold approximately 2.5 hours of video or
slideshows. Dual-layer DVD-Video discs can hold approximately 5 hours at
an average quality level.
A 50 GB Blu-ray video disc can hold more than 9 hours of high definition
video in a widescreen format and up to 23 hours of standard definition
video.
If you have an existing VIDEO_TS folder that you want to turn into a DVD,
you should use the VIDEO_TS Folder project. See Making a DVD From
VIDEO_TS Folders on page 41. If you have an existing BDMV folder that you
want to burn to a disc, see Making a BDMV Folder Disc on page 45.
Note: Not all versions of Toast Titanium include Blu-ray
authoring.
To make your video disc:
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From the main Toast window, click Video.

Choose DVD-Video from the format selection menu.

Click the Options button, if necessary, to reveal these optional disc
settings:
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Menu Style: Choose a style for the menu background image,
text, and buttons.

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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:

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Good: Suitable for simple video, such as people talking—
fastest processing time.

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Better: Suitable for most video—average processing time.

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Best: Suitable for complex video, such as fast motion—
slowest processing time.

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Custom: To create a custom quality level, click Customize
and choose the Custom option from the Encoding tab.



Auto-play disc on insert: Select this option to automatically
play the first video, slideshow, or playlist when this disc is
inserted into a player. The main menu is not displayed, but you
can access it by pressing the MENU button on the player’s
remote control.



Play all items continuously: Select this option to
automatically play each video or slideshow on the disc without
first returning to the main menu.



Include original photos: Select this option to include a copy
of the original full-quality source photos from your slideshows in
a separate folder on the disc. This folder will be accessible when
the DVD is used on a Macintosh or Windows computer.

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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 37.

Click Customize for additional disc settings. See Video Disc Settings on
page 34.

Add photo or video files to the disc by dragging and dropping them
into the Content Area from your hard disk or the Media Browser.

Insert a blank, recordable DVD or Blu-ray Disc.

Optional: Change the destination recorder and number of copies at
the bottom of the screen.

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.

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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.
To preview the DVD:
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Instead of recording, select File > Save As Disc Image.

Give the disc a name, if you are prompted to do so.

Select a name and destination for the disc image file.

Click Save.
The disc image file is created.

From the Toast menu, choose Utilities > Mount Disc Image.

Navigate to the disc image file, select it, and click Open.
The DVD is mounted on the desktop.
Tip: Here’s another way to mount the image file: Select the file,
Control-click, and choose Services > Mount It.

Use the DVD Player software included with Mac OS X to preview the
DVD.

If you are satisfied with the results, use the Image File format to record it.
See Copying a Disc Image File on page 98.
Note: For more information, see Saving Disc Images on
page 52 and Mounting Disc Images on page 53.

Making a High Definition DVD
High Definition DVD is a unique type of video disc which allows you to
author HD video to DVD, for playback in true high definition. This gives you
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.

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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.
While Toast will allow you to add more than these lengths of video, adding
additional video requires that video be compressed further and results in a
lower quality video. These discs offer full menu navigation and are created
in much the same way that DVD-Video or Blu-ray Video projects are with
the same options available.
To make a High Definition DVD:
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From the main Toast window, click Video.

Choose DVD-Video from the format selection menu.

Click the Options button, if necessary, and select High Definition DVD
as the format. The other disc settings and options available are
identical to those available when creating a DVD or Blu-ray Disc. For
more information on these options and settings, see Making a DVD or
BD Video Disc on page 25.

Add your HD video files to the disc by dragging and dropping them
into the Content Area from your hard disk or the Media Browser.

On the disc gauge at the bottom of the window, select DVD or DVD
DL as your target media type.

Insert a blank, recordable DVD.

Optional: Change the destination recorder and number of copies at
the bottom of the screen.

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.

Working With Slideshows
When creating a video disc, each group of photos you add into the
Content Area appears as a slideshow. Each slideshow will have a button in
the menu that will appear on your TV when you play the disc. Slideshows
can contain up to 99 photos. You can rearrange, duplicate, remove, or edit
slideshows.
To rearrange slideshows:
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Select the slideshow you want to rearrange.

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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:
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Select the slideshow you want to remove.

You can remove selected slideshows in any of these ways:
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Click the Remove files button.

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Press Delete.



Choose Edit > Clear.

The slideshows and the photos within the slideshow are removed from the
Content Area, but the originals are not deleted from your hard disk or from
your iPhoto, Aperture, or Lightroom libraries.
To edit the TV menu button text or graphic for a slideshow:
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Select a slideshow and click Edit, or double-click on any slideshow.

Click the Text tab and edit the text.

Click the Slideshow tab to edit the button graphic.

Select any photo in the slideshow and click Set Button Picture.

Click Done.

To add photos to a slideshow:
Drag photos onto the slideshow from the Media Browser or your hard disk.
A rectangle around the slideshow indicates that the photos will be added.
To remove or reorder photos in a slideshow:
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Select a slideshow and click Edit, or double-click on any slideshow.

Click the Slideshow tab and choose from any of the following
options:

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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. At the top of the photo list is a button to toggle
between large and small photo rows for easier navigation.

Click Done.

To adjust the slideshow duration:
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Select a slideshow and click Edit, or double-click on any slideshow.

Click the Slideshow tab.

Click Slide Duration and choose the length of time for each slide to
appear. The slideshow will automatically advance to the next slide
after the set time. You can also manually advance to the next slide by
using the chapter buttons on your player remote control. Choose
Manual if you do not want the slideshow to automatically advance,
and only want to manually advance the slideshow.
Some players may not support Manual for advancing images.

Click Done.

Working With Videos
When you play your completed video disc, you see a menu containing a
button for each video that was added to the Content Area. You can
rearrange, duplicate, and remove videos. You can trim a video file to
determine which portion of the video Toast records to disc. This does not
affect the original video file on your hard disk.
You can add chapters to a video disc and during playback you can use the
chapter buttons on your player’s remote control to advance or rewind the
video.
To rearrange videos:
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Select the video you want to rearrange.

Drag the video to a new position in the Content Area.
A black bar indicates where the video will be placed.

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To duplicate a video:
Select a video and choose Edit > Duplicate.
To remove a video:
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Select the video you want to remove.

Remove the selected video in any of these ways:
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Click the Remove files button.

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Press Delete.



Choose Edit > Clear.

The video is removed from the Content Area, but the original is not
deleted from your hard disk or your Movies folder.
To edit the TV menu button text or graphic for a video:
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Select a video and click Edit, or double-click on any video.

In the Edit Video window, click the Text tab and edit the text.

To change the button graphic, choose the frame of video you want to
use as a button picture:
Press the Play button to play the video. When you find the video
frame you want, click Pause. You can also drag the playhead back or
forward to preview the video until you find the video frame that you
want.

Click Set Picture.

Click OK.

To trim or edit portions of video:
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Select a video and click Edit or double-click on any video.

In the preview window you’ll see two Trim markers, which are small
triangles below the video.
Adjust the Start and End markers using one of the following methods:
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Drag the markers left or right.



Enter a time into the Start or End control and then click in the
Duration box to reset the marker.

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To make finer adjustments:
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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.
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Click OK.
Note: Editing is nondestructive.

You can duplicate a video and have different trim marks for each copy.
To set chapter markers:
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Select a video and click Edit, or double-click on any video.

Click the Chapters tab.

Chapter markers can be set automatically or manually.
To set markers automatically, select Automatic. Choose one of the
following from the pull-down menu:
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None: Select this option to have no chapter markers on the disc.



Automatic: Select this option to use chapter markers set in
iMovie. This option also assigns chapter markers based on
scenes detected during Plug & Burn video import for DVD. See
Using Plug & Burn on page 33.



Every # Minutes: Select this option to assign chapters at fixed
time intervals.

To set chapter markers manually:

Select Manual.

Drag the preview playhead to the desired position.

Click the Add button at the bottom of the Chapters tab.

Repeat these steps to add additional markers.

Click OK.

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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 34 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. After importing, you can immediately
start recording your disc, or add other video or slideshows from your hard
disk before recording.
When you play your completed video disc, you see a menu containing a
button for each video you imported.
To import video:
1

Start a new DVD-Video, or Blu-ray Video project:
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See Making a DVD or BD Video Disc on page 25.

Choose any optional disc settings before beginning the Plug & Burn.
2

Connect your DV camcorder to your computer via a Firewire cable
and set it to playback (VCR) mode.
In a few seconds, a camcorder icon appears in the Content Area.

Use the camera controls next to the camcorder icon to fast-forward or
rewind to the point where you want to begin importing. If you want
to import from the beginning of the tape, skip this step.

Click Import.

Choose Plug & Burn options:


Clip Description: Enter text for the menu button on the TV
menu for this video.



Import: Select the amount of video (in minutes) you want to
import. Choose Entire Tape to import all the video on the DV
tape.

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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:
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Insert a blank, recordable disc.

Click Import & Record, choose a recorder from the list, and configure
recording options, such as Number of Copies.

Click Record to continue.

Toast starts the DV camcorder and imports the video to your hard disk.
When importing is complete, Toast records the disc. Toast displays a
progress bar and status information as it records your disc.
To import and then add additional video or slideshows before
recording:
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Click Import.

Toast starts the DV camcorder and imports the video to your hard disk.
When importing is complete, a new video is added to the Content Area.
You can then add additional videos and slideshows.
You can also export the imported video to your hard disk.
Imported video is temporarily stored in the Roxio Converted Items folder
in your Documents folder. Imported video files can be very large (2 GB for
every 10 minutes of imported video) and are automatically deleted when
you quit Toast. The original source content is not deleted from your
camcorder DV tape.
You can configure your preferences to save these imported items for a
longer time. See Configuring when Roxio Converted Items is emptied on
page 12.

Video Disc Settings
When creating a Music DVD, DVD-Video, or Blu-ray video disc, you can
choose various options for the disc content and menus. Some of the more

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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.



Play all items continuously: Select this option to
automatically play each video, slideshow or playlist on the disc
in sequence, without returning to the main menu in between.



Settings available on the Menus tab include:


Menu Title: Type a title for the main menu.



Menu Style: Choose the style for the menu background image,
text, and buttons.
DVDs made with Toast will have menus that contain buttons
similar to the menus and buttons in a commercially-produced
DVD. Your final disc allows you to navigate through menus and
select buttons to play videos, slideshows or playlists.
To create a disc with no menu, choose “No Menu” as the style.

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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.

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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.
Toast adds a button to your menu for each video, slideshow, or
playlist you add to the disc. Each time you fill a menu with the
maximum number of buttons, as specified here, Toast
automatically creates a new menu.

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Button Highlight Color: Choose the highlight color that will
be visible when a button is selected on your DVD.



Background Color: Choose a color that will be used as your
menu background color. This will replace the background in any
selected menu style.



Text Color: Choose a color that will be used for any text
displayed on the disc menus.



Custom Menu Background: To add a custom menu
background image, drag-and-drop an image from the Media
Browser onto the existing menu thumbnail image.
To remove a custom menu background, select the thumbnail
image and press Delete.

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Include scene menus for video: Select this option to
include a scene menu in the menu for all videos on your disc.
You will be able to play the video from various points using this
menu.

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Include slide menus for slideshows: Select this option to
include a slide menu in the menu for all slideshows on your disc.
You will be able to play the slideshow from various points using
this menu.

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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.

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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.

Adding ROM data to a DVD-Video Disc
When creating a DVD-Video disc, you can choose to add additional data
files to the disc that will only be accessible when you're viewing the
contents of your finished disc on a Mac or PC. When playing back your
DVD on a set-top player, these additional files will be ignored by the DVD
player.
To add ROM data to a DVD-Video disc:
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Prepare a DVD-Video project, adding the desired video files to the
Content Area.

Click the Options button, if necessary, to reveal the Options panel.

Click the Include DVD-ROM content check box, if it is not already
selected. This activates the Change button.

Click the Change button.

Add files and folders to the ROM portion of the disc as instructed
onscreen.

Click OK.

Insert a blank, recordable DVD.

Select additional options, if desired, directly on the Options panel or
by clicking Customize.

Optional: Change the destination recorder and number of copies at
the bottom of the screen.

10 Click the red Burn button at the bottom right of the Toast window.
11 Click Record to continue.

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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:
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Start a new Music DVD or Video Disc project:
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See Making a Music DVD on page 87.

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See Making a DVD or BD Video Disc on page 25.

On the Options panel, click Customize, and choose the Encoding tab.

Choose either Automatic or Custom:



Automatic: Choose this option to use video and audio
encoding settings that maximize quality and fit the most
content on the disc. Variable bit rate encoding is used for video,
Dolby Digital 192 kHz is used for audio, and aspect ratio is
determined automatically from the source videos.

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Custom: Choose this option to manually set video and audio
encoding options. This option is recommended only for people
who have an understanding of video and audio encoding
terminology.

If you selected Automatic, choose the Video Quality:
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Good: Suitable for simple video, such as people talking—
fastest processing time.



Better: Suitable for most video—average processing time.



Best: Suitable for complex video, such as fast motion—slowest
processing time.

If you selected Custom, choose the video encoding options:


Average Bit Rate: Sets the desired average target bit rate for
the video encoder.

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Maximum Bit Rate: Sets the maximum bit rate for the video
encoder.

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The minimum bit rate is derived from the above two values
using the following formula: Minimum = (2 x Average) –
Maximum.

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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.



Half-PEL: Choose whether the motion estimation operation
also looks for pixels that move only one half of a pixel from one
frame to the next. This setting should usually be enabled and
should only be disabled if speed is desired over quality.



Reencoding: Choose Always to re-encode all source video.
Choose Never to not re-encode any source video. Choose
Automatic to only re-encode non-standard source video.



Field Dominance: This setting should match the field order of
the source video. DV is generally bottom field first, but other
types of video may be different. In most cases, Toast is able to
detect the field order of the source video and the Automatic
setting should work fine.

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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.

If you selected Custom, choose the audio encoding options:
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Audio Format: Choose Dolby Digital or uncompressed PCM. In
almost all cases, Dolby Digital is the best choice. It uses less disc
space, so you can fit more video on the DVD, and the sound
quality is almost the same as PCM.



Data Rate: Choose the bit rate to encode the Dolby Digital
audio. Higher bit rates can produce slightly better sounding
audio, but use more disc space. Toast uses 192 kbps by default.



Dynamic Range Compression: Enabling dynamic range
compression reduces the range between loud and soft sounds
in order to make dialogue more audible, especially when
listening at low volume levels.

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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. Audio that has
been recorded at 96 kHz / 24 bit is downsampled automatically
unless you choose the 96 kHz / 24 bit option, which maintains
the higher quality but significantly reduces disc space.
When you choose PCM, any existing Dolby Digital audio files will
be “passed through” without reconverting to PCM.
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Click OK.
Note: You can also click Reset Defaults if you want to reset the
encoding to the default settings when Toast was first installed.

The Toast Preferences contains options for setting the appropriate TV
standard for your video discs.
To change TV standard preferences:
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Choose Toast > Preferences.

Click the Video tab.

Choose the TV standard:

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NTSC: Create discs compatible with televisions in North
America, Japan, and parts of South America and Asia.



PAL: Create discs compatible with televisions in much of Europe
and Asia, and parts of South America.

Close the preferences.

Encoded items are temporarily stored in the Roxio Converted Items folder
in your Documents folder. These items are available for additional disc
projects and will not need to be re-encoded. Temporary files can be very
large and are automatically deleted when you quit Toast.

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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 12.

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.
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.
Toast offers two format options: Choose Video_TS Folders to burn each
Video_TS folder on a different disc. Choose Video_TS Compilation to burn
more than one Video_TS folder on a single disc. This topic describes the
Video_TS Folders format. To learn about creating video compilations, see
Making a VIDEO_TS Compilation on page 44.
To make a DVD from a VIDEO_TS Folder:
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From the main Toast window, click Video.

Choose VIDEO_TS Folders from the format selection menu.

Click the Options button, if necessary, to reveal these optional disc
settings:


Use Fit-to-DVD video compression: Fit-to-DVD
automatically compresses the 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.

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Note: If you are recording to a dual-layer DVD, no compression
will occur.
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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.

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. This will reduce the amount of compression
required and maximize quality and available disc space. See
Changing Copy Options on page 43.
Note: If you would like to burn multiple DVD-Video discs in
succession, you can add additional VIDEO_TS folders to the
Content area and select the Copy Options for each of these.

Insert a blank, recordable DVD.

Optional: Change the destination recorder and number of copies at
the bottom of the screen.

Click the red Burn button at the bottom right of the Toast window.
Toast automatically adds an empty AUDIO_TS folder to the disc at
burn time for improved compatibility with set-top DVD players.

Toast displays a progress bar and status information as it records your disc.
If you are burning multiple VIDEO_TS folders, you will be prompted to
insert a blank, recordable DVD for each one.
You can preview a DVD prior to burning an actual disc by saving it as a disc
image and then using the Toast Image mounter. See Previewing a DVDVideo on page 27 for more information.

Making Video Discs
Making a DVD From VIDEO_TS Folders

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. By default, the entire disc is copied, with all
menus, video, and audio. You can choose to exclude specific video, audio,
and languages. Excluding unnecessary content reduces the amount of
compression required and maximizes quality and available disc space.
To change copy options:
1

Click Fit-to-DVD video compression and add your source to the
Content Area.

Click the Options button.

Select the Video drop-down menu and choose the video to include:


All: Select to copy all video. All menus will be included.



Main: Select to include only the single longest-running video.
Menus will not be included.



Custom: Select to choose the specific videos to be included.
Menus will not be included.
Note: If you choose Main or Custom, the copied disc will not
have a menu, but the first video will play automatically when the
disc is inserted. If the disc contains multiple videos, all videos will
play continuously, in sequence. You may be able to use the Title
menu in your DVD player to select a video.

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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.


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.



Main: Select to include only the primary audio for each video
(typically the highest-quality Dolby Digital). Secondary audio,
such as director's commentary, or other audio formats such as
PCM or DTS audio will be excluded.
Note: If you set the Video option to Custom, the Audio dropdown menu does not appear. Instead, you can select audio and
language options for each individual video.

Note: When you remove audio or languages, the audio setup
menu and secondary audio on the copied disc may not behave
as expected. However, the main audio and video should operate
as expected. For best results, choose All.
As you make your selections, the amount of compression and the
video quality indicator change. If you choose to include only the main
movie or reduce the number of languages and audio, the indicator
shows improved quality for the resulting DVD.
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Click OK to continue, and proceed with your copy.

Making a VIDEO_TS Compilation
You can create a DVD by compiling multiple DVD-Video VIDEO_TS folders
onto one disc and play it on a set-top DVD player or in a Macintosh or
Windows computer with a DVD player.

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Making a BDMV Folder Disc

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:
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From the main Toast window, click Video.

Choose VIDEO_TS Compilation from the format selection menu.

Drag-and-drop each VIDEO_TS folder into the Content Area from
your hard disk or Media Browser.
A summary of the information that will be copied appears in the
content area.

Click Options to choose optional Fit-to-DVD settings. See Changing
Copy Options on page 43 for more information.

Insert a blank, recordable DVD.

Optional: Change the destination recorder and number of copies at
the bottom of the screen.

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.

Making a BDMV Folder Disc
You can create a Blu-ray video disc by using an already authored and valid
BDMV Folder. A BDMV folder contains the media files for the Blu-ray Disc’s
video and audio content and is located at the root level of the disc.
This is the best choice if you have a BDMV folder that was created by Toast
or another Blu-ray Disc authoring application.
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To make a BDMV folder disc:
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From the main Toast window, click Video.

Choose BDMV Folder from the format selection menu.

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.

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.

Optional: Change the destination recorder and number of copies at
the bottom of the screen.

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.

Creating an AVCHD Archive
This project makes it easy to back up and archive the content of an entire
AVCHD camera across one or more discs. AVCHD camcorders are capable
of storing much more video than can traditionally be recorded on a single
DVD, and in many cases more than on a single Blu-ray disc.
In addition to spanning your video across multiple DVD or Blu-ray discs,
each of the discs created can be used as an AVCHD video source in
applications such as Toast, and iMovie. These applications will treat each
disc as if it was an AVCHD camcorder.
To create an AVCHD Archive:
1

From the main Toast window, click Video.

Choose AVCHD Archive from the format selection menu.

Connect your AVCHD camcorder to your computer via the USB
connection and ensure it is set to the proper mode so your Mac can
access the video. On most camcorders, this is the Playback mode.
It is also suggested that you have AC power connected to the
camcorder, and in some cases required by the camcorder itself.

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Select your AVCHD source in the Read from pull-down menu. AVCHD
camcorders typically appear as a removable volume or drive.

Insert a blank, recordable DVD or BD disc.

Optional: Change the destination recorder and number of copies at
the bottom of the screen.

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. This will create a low-resolution preview version
of your video inside your Movies folder so you can quickly
browse archived AVCHD video on your hard disk instead of
searching through multiple discs for the right video.

Making a video with Web Video
Capture
You can use the Web Video Capture option to create a DVD-Video disc
with videos that Toast captures from your web browser.
To capture a video with Web Video Capture
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In the main Toast window, click Video.

Choose Web Video Capture from the format selection menu.

In the Toast Titanium window, follow the instructions in the lower
right area of the Media tab (a copy of these instructions appears
below).
To capture web video, launch your Web browser and play a clip. If the
video is in a supported format, it will appear here.
Ensure the video has finished streaming completely before adding it to
a project.

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Making a video with Live Screen
Capture
Create a DVD from the video generated by using Live Screen Capture and
include voice-over.
To open Live Screen Capture
1

In Toast Titanium, click the Extras menu, and choose Live Screen
Capture.
For instructions on how to use Live Screen Capture, see Live Screen
Capture on page 17.

Editing videos with Toast Slice
You can use Toast Slice to easily identify parts of a video file that you want
to keep, trim out the parts you don’t want to keep, and export the result as
a video file or open it in Toast Titanium, MyDVD, or iMovie.
To open Toast Slice
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In Toast Titanium, from the Extras menu, choose Toast Slice.
For instructions on how to use Toast Slice, in the Toast Slice
application, choose Help > Toast Slice Help.

Editing Video
When converting video files or publishing to an online sharing site, you
can use Toast to crop, trim, or preview and apply audio effects before
completing your project.
You can also use Toast Slice to quickly trim and export a video. For more
information, see Editing videos with Toast Slice on page 48.
To adjust start and end points:
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Click Edit in the Content area beside the video clip you would like to
edit.

Making Video Discs
Editing Video

To adjust the start and end points of your video, drag the Start and
End markers located at the far left and right, just below the timeline.

As you drag each marker, the preview window will display the point
of the video where your marker is currently placed.

You can also make fine adjustments by entering a time or using the
arrows beside the Start and End fields in the window.

You can click Reset under the Start field to reset the Start marker, or
Reset under the End field to reset the End marker

Click OK to accept your edits, or continue to the steps below to
remove sections from the middle of your video.

To remove sections of video:
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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.

Click the Insert Marker button immediately to the right of the Play
button.

You will see two arrows appear below the timeline, immediately
below the playhead position.

Drag the left and right arrow that were inserted below the timeline,
so that the area of video you wish to be removed is located between
them. The area between the arrows that is being removed will appear
orange until you move the playhead to a new location.

You can move the playhead to a new location and insert additional
markers for every area of the video you would like to remove.

To undo removing a section of video, click on that area in the timeline
and press the Delete button on your keyboard.

When you are finished editing, click OK.

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Note: Changes you've made to your video clip by adjusting
start and end points, or by removing segments of video, only
appear in Toast and in your finished project. The editing is nondestructive, which means your original video file is safe and
remains unchanged.
To apply audio effects:
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Click the AU Filter button in the Content area beside the video clip
you would like to enhance with audio effects.
The Sound Effects window appears with your video clip selected in
the Track pop-up menu.

Select the effect you would like to apply from the Effect pop-up
menu. If you have not installed any third-party Audio Unit plug-ins,
you will see a number of pre-installed choices. If you have installed a
third-party Audio Unit plug-in, you should also see it in the list here.

Make any changes to the options listed for that specific effect.

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.

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.

Close the Sound Effects window when you are done, and complete
your project.
Note: Changes made to a video clip by applying audio effects
only appear in Toast and in the finished project. The editing is
non-destructive, which means the original video file is safe and
remains unchanged.

Using Other Toast
Features

In this chapter
Viewing Information about a Disc

Saving Disc Images

Mounting Disc Images

Comparing Files or Folders

Creating a Temporary Partition

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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:
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Insert a blank or used disc into the recorder.

Choose Recorder > Disc Info.
The Disc Information dialog appears. The Medium section contains
information about the disc itself (such as space available, supported
write speeds, and manufacturer ID) and the Content and Details
sections contain information about the contents of the disc (such as
individual tracks or sessions, CD-TEXT, and ISRC codes). See About
Discs on page 9.

Saving Disc Images
Instead of recording a project to disc, you can save it as a disc image file. A
disc image file is a single file, saved on your hard disk, which contains all
the data and formatting information needed to create a CD, DVD, or Bluray disc. Image files contain all source data (as opposed to saved Toast
projects which contain only references to the data).
You may also want to save a disc image file to avoid having to use a blank
disc. Mounted image files appear and behave like an actual disc in your
computer. For example, you can create a disc image for a DVD-Video
project and preview the output using the DVD player in your Mac without
having to burn it to disc. If you are satisfied with the results, you can then
burn this image file to a disc. If not, you can simply delete the file and start
again, and you have avoided wasting a disc.

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 53.
You can create disc images from any Toast disc type.
To save a project as an image file:
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Set up your disc project as you normally would.

Choose File > Save As Disc Image

Type a file name and select a location to save to.

By default, Toast creates Mac disc image files, which are compatible with
the Toast image mounter and the Disc Utility program included in
Mac OS X (except for audio CD images). You can also use Toast to create
cross-platform (Mac & PC) disc image files.

Mounting Disc Images
You can mount a previously created disc image file. Mounted disc images
behave like an actual physical disc inserted into your optical drive and
appear on the Desktop.
If this is the first time you are mounting an image file after installing Toast,
Toast will prompt you to enter the administrator password. Once you have
done this, you no longer need to enter the password to mount an image
file. If you do not have administrator privileges, you will not be able to
mount image files with Toast.
To mount a disc image file from the menu:
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Choose Utilities > Mount Disc Image.

Select the image file you want to open.

Click Open.

An icon of a disc appears on your Desktop when the image is mounted.
To mount a disc image file with Mount It:
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Control-click on the image file and choose Services and select Mount
It.

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Toast does not have to be running to mount the image.
To unmount a disc image file:
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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.
Compare differs from the verification that Toast performs after recording a
disc. Verification only compares source data to a recorded disc, while
Compare can compare any two data sets, such as two files, folders, or hard
disks. Compare checks each individual file when comparing the data,
while verification compares only blocks of data. Both are accurate, but
Compare is more precise and can usually tell you exactly which file is
missing or damaged.
To compare folders or files:
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Choose Utilities > Compare.

Choose whether you want to compare folders or files from the popup:


Compare Folders: Compares any two folders, hard disks, or
discs.



Compare Files: Compares any two files.

Click Original.

Select the original data you want to compare and click Open.

Click Copy.

Select the copied data you want to compare and click Open.

Click Start.

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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.
To create a temporary partition:
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Choose Utilities > Create Temporary Partition.

Enter the size for the partition. Choose a size that is appropriate for
the disc that you intend to make from the partition. For example, 650
MB is suitable for a CD and 4300 MB is suitable for a DVD.

Choose the file system format for the partition:



Mac OS Extended: The best choice for discs to be used on
Mac OS 8.1 or later, including any Mac OS X system.



Mac OS Standard: For discs to be used on computers
running Mac OS 8 or lower.



UNIX File System: For discs to be used on the UNIX operating
system.

Click OK.

Toast mounts the partition on the desktop. You can add files or folders to
this partition.
To record the partition to disc, you can use the Disc Copy format and select
the partition from the Read From menu. See Copying a Disc on page 97.
You can also use temporary partitions for ISO 9660 data discs. See Making
an ISO 9660 Disc on page 75.

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Making Data Discs

In this chapter
What is a Data Disc?

Types of Data Discs

Overview of Making a Data Disc

Burning Projects to Multiple Recorders

Making a Mac Only Disc

Making a Mac & PC Disc

Making a DVD-ROM (UDF) Disc

Making an ISO 9660 Disc

Making a Photo Disc

Encrypting a disc with Roxio Secure Burn

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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.
Note: Not all versions of Toast Titanium include Blu-ray
authoring.

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.
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. See
Making a Mac Only Disc on page 63.



Mac & PC: This disc can be used either on a Macintosh or a
Windows computer. This is the best choice for saving data to share
with PC users. See Making a Mac & PC Disc on page 69.
Note: Both Mac Only and Mac & PC formats support data
spanning and allow you to define custom icons.



DVD-ROM (UDF): This DVD can be used on a Macintosh or a
Windows computer as well as in a set-top DVD player if it contains
valid DVD-Video content. See Making a DVD-ROM (UDF) Disc on
page 74.



ISO 9660: This disc uses a standard file system so that discs can be
used with a wide range of operating systems, including Macintosh,
Windows or many Unix-based systems. See Making an ISO 9660 Disc
on page 75.

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 76.

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Overview of Making a Data Disc
This section describes the basic process of making any data disc with
Toast.
To make a data disc:
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From the main Toast window, click Data.

Choose the disc format. For example, choose Mac Only.

Choose any optional settings.

Add files and folders to the disc by dragging and dropping them into
the Content Area from your hard disk or the Media Browser. You can
also select files or folders in the Media Browser and click the Add
button at the bottom of the browser.

Optional: Rearrange, rename and remove items from the Content
Area. See Working With Data Content on page 67.

Insert a blank, recordable CD, DVD or Blu-ray disc.

Optional: Change the destination recorder and number of copies at
the bottom of the screen.

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.
Note: Data projects are automatically cataloged in
DiscCatalogMaker RE to allow for easy tracking and searching of
disc contents. You can disable this option on the Advanced tab
of the Recorder Settings dialog which appears when you begin
to burn a disc.

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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.
To burn projects to multiple recorders:
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Once you have prepared your project and are ready to begin burning,
select the Destination pop-up menu at the bottom of the screen and
choose Select Multiple Recorders.

Click the red Burn button.

The Multiple Recorder Setup window appears. For each recorder you
would like to use to burn your project:
a

Click the checkbox to the left of the drive name so a check mark
is visible.

Place the appropriate type of disc (CD, DVD, or Blu-ray Disc) into
the drive. You can use the Eject button on this screen to open
each drive tray.

Confirm that the status for each drive shows a blank disc is
inserted.
Note: You must use the same type of disc in each drive. You
can not burn to a CD in one drive and a DVD in another drive,
even if the project would fit on both the CD and DVD discs. We
recommend that you use the same brand and model of disc in
each drive.

Optional: Select the Write Speed you would like to use for recording
your project to each drive. You can only select speeds that are
common between the selected drives.

Click the red Burn button to begin recording your project.

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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:
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From the main Toast window, click Data.

Choose Mac Only from the format selection menu.

Click the Options button, if necessary, to reveal these optional disc
settings:


Avoid splitting files when spanning: Will only split a file if it
cannot fit on a single disc.



Auto-open disc window: Select this option to automatically
open the main window of the disc when it is inserted into a
Macintosh.



Use compression: Select this option to compress the
contents of the disc prior to recording.



Use encryption: Select this option to encrypt and require a
password to access the disc contents.
See Compression and Encryption on page 65.

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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 66.)



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 66.)

Add files and folders to the disc by dragging and dropping them into
the Content Area from your hard disk or the Media Browser.

Insert a blank, recordable disc.

Optional: Change the destination recorder and number of copies at
the bottom of the screen.

Click the red Burn button at the bottom right of the Toast window.


Multi-session CDs: If you are making a data CD and would like
to leave the disc “open” so you can record additional data
sessions at a later time, click the Settings button at the bottom of
the screen near the Eject button. Then click the Advanced tab
and choose Write Session. You will be able to add data to this CD
until you have exceeded its capacity or you choose Write Disc to
“close” it. Each recording session will appear as a unique disc
icon on your desktop. This is normal Mac OS behavior and is not
controlled by Toast. You cannot make multi-session DVDs or Bluray discs.

Toast displays a progress bar and status information as it records your disc.
If the files and folders you are recording exceed the capacity of a single
disc, Toast will automatically span this data across multiple discs. See Disc
Spanning on page 71.

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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 63.

If necessary, click the Options button at the upper-right side of the
Toast window to reveal the Options panel. Click Use compression.

Click the red Burn button.

The contents are compressed to a single file and recorded to the disc.
To access a compressed disc:
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Insert the disc into a drive.
The disc contains a single file containing the compressed contents of
the disc.

Double-click the compressed file.

The file decompresses to the desktop.
To encrypt a Mac Only disc:
1

Prepare your disc as you normally would. See Making a Mac Only Disc
on page 63.

If necessary, click the Options button at the upper-right side of the
Toast window to reveal the Options panel. Click Use encryption.

Click the red Burn button.

When prompted, enter a password and click OK.
Warning: Keep your password in a safe place. If you forget your
password, there will be no way to access the data on the disc.

The contents are 128-bit encrypted to a single file and recorded to the disc.

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To access an encrypted disc:
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Insert the disc into a drive.
The disc contains a single file containing the contents of the disc.

Double-click the encrypted file.

When prompted, enter the password and click OK.

The file will decrypt to the desktop.

Custom Icons and Backgrounds
If you are creating a Mac Only or Mac & PC data disc, you can select a
custom icon instead of the generic disc, and choose a specific color or
image for the main window background instead of standard white.
Note: Custom backgrounds only display when the disc is
viewed on a Mac.
To set a custom icon:
1

Prepare your disc as you normally would. See Making a Mac Only Disc
on page 63 or Making a Mac & PC Disc on page 69.

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 icon is
shown.

Change the disc icon. There are two ways to do this:


Add a photo or other image file: Drag-and-drop a photo or
other image file from your hard disk or the Media Browser on top
of the current disc icon in the data disc settings dialog in Toast.



Copy an existing icon from a file or folder on your
hard disk: Select the file or folder containing the icon you want
to copy and choose File > Get Info. The Get Info window from
the Finder appears. Click on the icon in the window and choose 
Edit > Copy. In the data disc settings dialog in Toast, click on the
current disc icon and choose Edit > Paste.

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Making a Mac Only Disc

Click OK.

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 63 or Making a Mac & PC Disc on page 69.

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.

Change the background:


Color: Select Color and click the colored rectangle for a Colors
palette. The top of the Colors palette contains several buttons to
display color options, such as a box of crayons. Choose the
background color you want and click OK.



Picture: Select Picture and click Select to choose a picture or
other image file from your hard disk. Choose the background
picture you want and click Choose.

Click OK.

Click the red Burn button.

The disc is recorded with a custom background.

Working With Data Content
If you are creating a Mac Only or Mac & PC data disc, after you have added
files or folders to the data Content Area, you can organize them in different
ways, such as creating new sub-folders, renaming items, and removing
items.
The files and folders in the Content Area are only references to the original
source data. Changes to the Content Area do not affect the source data on
your hard disk.
For example, renaming a file in the Toast window does not rename the file
on your hard disk, but only on the finished disc that you are creating.

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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:
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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.

Drag-and-drop selected files or folders into new locations in the
Content Area.

To rename a file or folder in the Content Area:
1

Double-click on a file or folder, or select a file or folder and click Info at
the bottom of the Toast window.

Type a new name.

Click OK.
You can also click on the name in the Content Area and wait a few
seconds. After a few moments, the name will become highlighted
and editable. Type a new name and press Enter to accept the change
or press Tab to change the next item.

To remove files or folders from the Content Area:
1

Select the files or folders you want to remove.
Tip: To select all the files, choose Edit > Select All.

Remove the selected files or folders in any of these ways:


Click the Remove files button.



Press Delete.



Choose Edit > Clear.

To add files or folders from the Content Area:
1

Click the Add files button.

Select files from the browse window.

Click Open.

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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 main Toast window, click Data.

Choose Mac & PC from the format selection menu.

Click the Options button, if necessary, to reveal these optional disc
settings:



Avoid splitting files when spanning: Will only split a file if it
cannot fit on a single disc.



Auto-open disc window: Select this option to automatically
open the main window of the disc when it is inserted into a
Macintosh.

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 66.



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 66.

Add files and folders to the disc by dragging and dropping them into
the Content Area from your hard disk or the Media Browser.

Choose which files and folders will appear on the Mac and on the PC
by clicking the Mac and PC check boxes. By default, all files and
folders are included in both.
If you choose to exclude a folder, all of the contents within the folder
are also automatically excluded.

Insert a blank, recordable disc.

Optional: Change the destination recorder and number of copies at
the bottom of the screen.

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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. (In some cases, the user will have to give their permission
before the executable will launch.)
Note: This setting will not affect your disc when used in a Mac.

To select an executable file to autorun:
1

Prepare your disc as you normally would. See Making a Mac & PC Disc
on page 69.

Click More for additional option settings.

From the Autorun drop-down menu, select the file you would like to
launch when the disc is inserted in to a Windows PC.
Note: You can only use files that are executable on a PC (files
with extensions such as .EXE, .COM, or .BAT).

Click OK.

Record your disc.

The completed disc will have a hidden file called autorun.inf that is only
visible on a PC. This file contains the instructions that will launch the
selected executable on a Windows PC.

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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.
To span discs:
1

Prepare your disc as you normally would. See Making a Mac Only Disc
on page 63 or Making a Mac & PC Disc on page 69.
As you add data to the Content Area, Toast displays information
about the number of discs you will need for recording. Click the disc
capacity drop-down menu next to the Space indicator to adjust the
information for CD, DVD, or Blu-ray discs.

Record your disc.
Toast will prompt you to insert each blank disc while recording.

To not span discs:


To not have your data spanned across discs, remove files or folders
from the Content Area until the left side of the Toast window
indicates that the contents will fit on a single disc.

Restoring Spanned Disc Sets
Each disc in a Mac Only disc set also contains a small software application
called Roxio Restore; each disc in a Mac & PC disc set contains both Mac
and PC versions of Roxio Restore.
Roxio Restore allows you to easily restore an individual file or folder, or the
entire disc set. The Mac version of Roxio Restore runs on Mac OS X v 10.5 or
higher; the PC version runs on Windows XP, Vista, and Windows 7.
Note: Toast does not need to be installed on the computer on
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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.

Launch the Roxio Restore application.
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.

Browse to the file or folder you want to restore, select the item and
click Restore.
If the desired file or folder is not on the current disc, Roxio Restore
prompts you to insert the correct disc. You can also restore the entire
disc set.

To restore files and folders (Using older Mac OS X versions):
1

Insert any disc from the set into a Macintosh computer.
You will see a folder containing a portion of the data in the set.

Find the file or files you want to restore, and drag them to the desired
location on your hard disk.
Tip: You can manually rejoin split files using the “cat” command from
the terminal in Mac OS X. Refer to the Support area on Roxio’s web
site for more information. Choose Help > Product Support, and
search the knowledge base for an article titled: “How to retrieve data
from a spanned disc set.”

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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.
Tip: If the application does not launch automatically, browse to
your disc drive and double-click Roxio Restore.

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Making a DVD-ROM (UDF) 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. See Making a DVD From VIDEO_TS Folders on
page 41.
To make a DVD-ROM disc:
1

From the main Toast window, click Data.

Choose DVD-ROM (UDF) from the format selection menu.

Drag-and-drop a valid VIDEO_TS folder into the Content Area from
your hard disk.
Toast will automatically add an empty AUDIO_TS folder to the disc at
burn time for improved compatibility with set-top DVD players.

Double-click the small disc icon under the word DVD-ROM at the top
of the Content Area to rename the disc. By default, the UDF disc will
be named MY_DISC.

Insert a blank, recordable DVD.
Note: You can also insert a blank, recordable CD to create a
miniDVD. This type of disc has far less capacity than a DVD and
will not play in your set-top DVD player, but should play in your
Mac or PC.

Click the red Burn button, choose a recorder from the list, and
configure recording options, such as Number of Copies.

Click Record to continue.

Toast displays a progress bar and status information as it records your disc.
The disc is recorded with UDF version 1.0.2.

Making Data Discs
Making an ISO 9660 Disc

Making an ISO 9660 Disc
This type of disc uses international standards to maximize cross-platform
compatibility of discs—from Macintosh, and Windows or most Linuxbased computers.
To make an ISO 9660 disc:
1

From the main Toast window, click Data.

Choose ISO 9660 from the format selection menu.

Drag the files and folders than you want to add to the disc

Drag-and-drop files and folders into the Files area.

Click Select, and click Settings.

In Naming, choose an option (ISO 9660 Level 1 recommended for
maximum flexibility) and modify any additional settings.

Click Done.

Insert a blank, recordable CD, DVD, or Blu-ray disc.

Optional: In the Destination drop-down menu at the bottom of the
window, choose a disc drive or Disc image, and click Recorder
Settings, to adjust additional burn settings.

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Making a Photo Disc
This type of disc can be used in either a Macintosh or Windows computer.
It allows you to create a multi-purpose photo disc which you can use to
perform these tasks:


Archive your original photos—without conversion time or any loss of
quality



Automatically generate high-quality slideshows and import into an
iPhoto library on any Mac without installing any special software



Easily share photos with Mac or PC users in a standard format that can
be used in printing kiosks or by retail photo finishers

To make a Photo disc:
1

From the main Toast window, click Data.

Choose Photo Disc from the format selection menu.

Click the Options button, if necessary, to choose any optional disc
settings.

Add pictures to the disc by dragging and dropping them into the
Content Area from your hard disk or the Photos section of the Media
Browser.

Insert a blank, recordable CD, DVD or Blu-ray disc.
Note: The Media Browser provides immediate access to photos
in your iPhoto, Aperture, and Lightroom libraries.

Optional: Change the destination recorder and number of copies at
the bottom of the screen.

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.

Making Data Discs
Encrypting a disc with Roxio Secure Burn

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.

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.
Once Windows detects the disc, Windows Picture and Fax Viewer
opens.

Click the Start Slide Show button.

To play back your images as a slideshow (using Windows Vista
or Windows 7):
1

Insert your Photo disc into a PC running Windows Vista or Windows 7.

In some cases, Windows Photo Viewer will open automatically. If the
Windows Autoplay dialog box opens, click Run autorun.bat to open
Windows Photo Viewer.

Click the Play Slide Show button.

Encrypting a disc with Roxio Secure
Burn
You can encrypt and burn a disc by using Roxio Secure Burn.
To open Roxio Secure Burn
1

In Toast Titanium, from the Extras menu, choose Roxio Secure Burn.
For instructions on how to use Roxio Secure Burn, in Roxio Secure
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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.

Insert a blank BD-RE disc into your Blu-ray recorder.

Choose Recorder > Format Blu-ray Disc for Dynamic Writing.
Toast prompts you to format the disc.
Note: Any data on the disc will be lost.

Click on the Format button to proceed.
When formatting is complete, a Blu-ray disc icon appears on the
Desktop.

To record files and folders to the disc, drag them to the disc icon.

To erase files and folders from the disc, drag them from the disc to the
Trash.
Note: You can eject the disc and add more data to it at a later
time.
Tip: Once you have formatted the disc, you can burn data using
Toast Dynamic Writing even when Toast is not running.

Making Audio Discs

In this chapter
What is an Audio Disc?

Types of Audio Discs

Overview of Making an Audio Disc

Making an Audio CD

Making a Music DVD

Making an MP3 Disc

Making an Enhanced Audio CD

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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. It is similar to a standard
commercial CD you can purchase in music stores. This is the best
choice for playback in a CD player. See Making an Audio CD on
page 82.



Music DVD: This 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
can contain over 50 hours of music and has full navigation menus for
song selection. This is the best choice for playback in a DVD player.
See Making a Music DVD on page 87.



MP3 Disc: This CD or DVD can be played in home or car stereo MP3
disc players, some set-top DVD players, and most Macintosh and
Windows computers. MP3 discs have longer playing times than audio
CDs but their playback is less universal. See Making an MP3 Disc on
page 92.



Enhanced Audio CD: This CD can be played in a home or car
stereo CD player. It contains additional data content, which is
accessible in a Macintosh or Windows computer. See Making an
Enhanced Audio CD on page 93.

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 61.
To make an audio disc:
1

From the main Toast window, click Audio.

Choose the disc format. For example, choose Audio CD.

Choose any optional settings.

Add audio files to the disc by dragging and dropping them into the
Content Area from your hard disk or the Media Browser. You can also
select files or folders in the Media Browser and click the Add button at
the bottom of the browser. (See Using the Media Browser on page 10
for more information.)
You can add many types of non-protected QuickTime-supported
audio files, such as AIFF, MP3, WAV, AAC or audio files that QuickTime
doesn’t support—such as Dolby Digital AC3, OGG and FLAC. You can
even add many types of QuickTime supported video files. When you
add a video file to an Audio CD project, only the sound from the file
will be used in your project.

Insert a blank, recordable CD.

Optional: Change the destination recorder and number of copies at
the bottom of the screen.

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.

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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 main Toast window, click Audio.

Choose Audio CD from the format selection menu.

Click the Options button, if necessary, to reveal these optional disc
settings:


Add CD-TEXT: Choose this option if you want to write CD-TEXT
information onto the audio CD. If your recorder can write CDTEXT and your CD player can display CD-TEXT, you will see this
information during playback.

Add audio files to the disc by dragging and dropping them into the
Content Area from your hard disk or the Media Browser.
You can add crossfades, trim tracks, adjust levels, and set pauses
between tracks, as well as preview, rearrange, rename and remove
tracks from the Content Area. See Working with Crossfades on
page 86 and Working With Tracks on page 83.

Insert a blank, recordable CD.
Note: Most home and car stereo CD players have better
compatibility with CD-R media than CD-RW (rewritable) media.

Optional: Change the destination recorder and number of copies at
the bottom of the screen.

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.

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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.
1

Add audio files to the Content area until you have exceeded the 80
minute per disc limitation.

Toast automatically adds a separator which breaks your list of audio
tracks into two discs. The separator for the second disc is labelled Disc
2.

Once you have added all of the audio tracks to your project, you can
drag files up and down not only within a specific disc, but from one
disc to another.
If dragging an audio track pushes a disc beyond the 80-minute limit,
tracks exceeding the limitation will be moved to the next disc.

You can manually add a track separator by selecting an audio track
and clicking the Add Disc button at the bottom of the window beside
the Info button. The new track separator appears below the selected
track in the Content Area.

To delete a disc separator, click on the X located at the right side of it.
You can not delete disc separators that would cause more than 80
minutes of audio to appear on each disc. To remove those separators,
you must first remove audio files from your project.

To adjust pauses between tracks:
1

Select the tracks for which you want to change the pause duration.

Click the Pause column.
Choose the pause that you want from the drop-down menu. You can
set individual pauses from 0 to 8 seconds, but the pause before the
first track must be two seconds.

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To preview tracks:
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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.

Drag the tracks to a new position in the track list.
A black bar between tracks indicates where the tracks will be placed.

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Making an Audio CD

To remove tracks:
1

Select the tracks you want to remove.

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.
To view or edit track information:
1

Double-click on any track, or select a track and click the Get item
information button Info just below the Content Area.

Optional: Edit information about the disc in the Disc tab, and edit
information about individual tracks in the Tracks tab. This is the
information that will appear on the finished disc if you have chosen to
write CD-TEXT.

Click OK.

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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 82.

Find the Fades column on the track list.

The first track in the list has Set Fade In and Set Crossfade buttons.
Each middle track has a Set Crossfade button. The final track has a Set
Fade Out button.
Click each button and make a selection from the drop-down list.
Choose Custom from the drop-down list to view additional options.

After setting the desired fades and crossfades, continue creating your
audio CD as usual.
Note: Select Disc > Clear Crossfades to remove all crossfades.

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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.
A standard Music DVD can contain over 50 hours of music with Dolby
Digital sound. If your recorder supports dual-layer recordable DVDs, you
can create a Music DVD with over 100 hours of music.
To make a Music DVD:
1

From the main Toast window, click Audio.

Choose Music DVD from the format selection menu.

Click the Options button, if necessary, to reveal these optional disc
settings:


Menu Style: Choose the style for the menu background image,
text and buttons.



Auto-play disc on insert: Select this option to automatically
play the first playlist when this disc is inserted into a DVD player.
The DVD main menu is not displayed, but is accessible by
choosing the MENU button on the DVD player remote control.
Some players may not support autoplay.



Play all items continuously: Select this option to
automatically play each playlist on the DVD without first
returning to the DVD main menu.



Add original photos: Select this option to include a copy of
the original full-quality source photos from your slideshows in a
separate folder on the disc. This folder will be accessible when
the DVD is used on a Macintosh or Windows computer.

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Click Customize for additional menu settings. See Video Disc Settings
on page 34.
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Choose the audio encoding format. By default, Toast encodes Music
DVDs in Dolby Digital 192 kbps audio. This compresses the audio to
maximize disc space to fit over 50 hours of music, but maintains full
Hollywood-style fidelity.
To change the audio format from Dolby Digital to uncompressed
PCM audio, click Customize and choose the Custom option from the
Encoding tab. Choose PCM for the Audio Format.
Toast encodes PCM at 48 kHz / 16-bit or 48 kHz / 24-bit levels, which
are higher than standard CD quality, and exceed the levels of most
songs in your iTunes library. Audio that has been recorded at 96 kHz /
24-bit is downsampled automatically unless you choose the 96 kHz /
24-bit option, which maintains the higher quality but significantly
reduces disc space.
There are also optional Encoding settings which apply to photo and
video content. See Disc Encoding Settings on page 38.

Add audio files to the disc by dragging and dropping them into the
Content Area from your hard disk or the Media Browser.
Each group of 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. You can duplicate, rearrange, remove or
edit playlists. See Working With Playlists on page 89.
You can also optionally add photos and videos into the Content Area.

Insert a blank, recordable DVD.

Optional: Change the destination recorder and number of copies at
the bottom of the screen.

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.

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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.

Drag the playlist to a new position in the Content Area.

A black bar between playlists indicates where the playlist will be placed.
To duplicate a playlist:


Select a playlist and choose Edit > Duplicate.

To remove a playlist:
1

Select the playlist you want to remove.

Remove the selected playlists in any of these ways:


Click the Remove files button.



Press Delete.



Choose Edit > Clear.

The playlists and the tracks within the playlist are removed from the
Content Area, but the originals are not deleted from your hard disk or your
iTunes library.
To edit the DVD menu button text or graphic for a playlist:
1

Select a playlist and click Edit, or double-click on any playlist.

Click the Text tab and edit the text.

Click the Playlist tab to edit the button graphic.

Drag-and-drop an image file from your hard disk or from a web page
to the area of any track in the playlist that says “Drag Album Artwork
Here.”

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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. If no graphic is
selected for the button, the default button graphic Toast provides will
appear.

Click Done.

To add tracks to a playlist:


Drag tracks onto a playlist from the Media Browser or your hard disk.
A black rectangle around the playlist indicates that the tracks will be
added.

To remove, reorder, rename or add album art to tracks in a
playlist:
1

Select a playlist and click Edit, or double-click on any playlist.

Click the Playlist tab and do one of the following:


To remove tracks, select a track and click Remove. The tracks are
removed from the playlist, but the originals are not deleted from
your hard disk or your iTunes library.



To reorder tracks, drag the track to a new position in the track
list. A black bar between tracks indicates where the track will be
placed. At the top of the track list are buttons to toggle between
large and small track rows for easier navigation.



To rename tracks, click the information in the track that you want
to rename. After a moment, the name will become highlighted
and editable. Type a new name and click in the next track to
accept the change. This information appears on the TV screen
while a track is playing.

Making Audio Discs
Making a Music DVD

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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.
You do not need to add album artwork to each track. If the track
has no album artwork, the button graphic from the DVD menu
will be displayed instead during playback.

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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. However, an MP3 disc has limited
menu capabilities for navigation, so finding a particular song can be
difficult, and they can only be played on devices that support MP3 disc
playback.
A Music DVD is the best choice for high capacity, full menu navigation, and
universal playback. See Making a Music DVD on page 87.
To make an MP3 Disc:
1

From the main Toast window, click Audio.

Choose MP3 Disc from the format selection menu.

Add MP3 files to the disc by dragging and dropping them into the
Content Area from your hard disk or the Media Browser.
You can add any existing MP3 file. Toast does not create MP3 audio
files. To create MP3 files, you can use iTunes. You can also add existing
non-MP3 files such as WMA or OGG to this disc if your player supports
these formats.
You can also rearrange, rename and remove items from the Content
Area. Rearranging the files into sub-folders may improve the playback
navigation with some MP3 players. It does not affect the original files
on your hard disk or iTunes library. See Working With Data Content on
page 67.

Insert a blank, recordable CD, DVD, or Blu-ray disc.

Optional: Change the destination recorder and number of copies at
the bottom of the screen.

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.

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.
To make an Enhanced Audio CD:
1

From the main Toast window, click Data.

Choose Mac Only or Mac & PC from the format selection menu.

Add data files and folders to the disc by dragging and dropping them
into the Content Area from your hard disk or the Media Browser.

Click Audio.

Choose Enhanced Audio CD from the format selection menu.

Add audio files and folders to the disc by dragging and dropping
them into the Content Area from your hard disk or the Media Browser.
You can add crossfades, trim tracks, adjust levels, and set pauses
between tracks, as well as preview, rearrange, rename and remove
tracks from the Content Area. See Working with Crossfades on
page 86 and Working With Tracks on page 83.

Insert a blank, recordable CD.
Note: Most home and car stereo CD players have better
compatibility with CD-R media than CD-RW (rewritable) media.

Optional: Change the destination recorder and number of copies at
the bottom of the screen.

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.

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Copying Discs

In this chapter
Types of Copies

Overview of Making a Copy

Copying a Disc

Copying a Disc Image File

Merging Disc Images

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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 97.



Image File: Copy a disc image file to a CD, DVD, or Blu-ray disc. See
Copying a Disc Image File on page 98.



Disc Image Merge: Merges a Mac disc image and a PC disc image
into a hybrid disc copy. See Merging Disc Images on page 100.

Overview of Making a Copy
This section describes the basic process of making any copy 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 61.
To copy a disc or image file:
1

From the main Toast window, click Copy.

Choose the disc format. For example, choose Disc Copy.

Choose any optional settings.

Insert the original CD, DVD, or Blu-ray Disc into your recorder or dragand-drop image files into the Content Area.

Click the red Copy button, choose a recorder from the list, and
configure recording options, such as Number of Copies. Click Record
to continue.

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

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.

Note: Not all versions of Toast Titanium include Blu-ray
authoring.
To copy a CD, DVD, or Blu-ray disc:
1

From the main Toast window, click Copy.

Choose Disc Copy from the format selection menu.

Click the Options button, if necessary, to reveal these optional disc
settings:


Add CD-TEXT: If your original is an audio CD, you can
automatically retrieve album information and add CD-TEXT to
the copy. To view this information, you will need an audio CD
player that supports CD-TEXT.



Use Fit-to-DVD video compression: If your original is a
DVD-Video that is too large to fit onto a standard 4.7 GB
recordable DVD, selecting this option will compress it to fit on
the copy. See Changing Copy Options on page 43.



Use Disc Recovery: When enabled, this helps copy discs that
are unreadable due to scratches or other damages. Files from
these damaged discs may be recovered during copying, and
recovery information will be provided after copying is done.
Note: Not all discs can be restored—some are too damaged to
be read by Toast, even with this option enabled.

Insert the original disc into your recorder.

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If you have multiple optical drives on your computer, you can copy
from one drive to the other. Click the drop-down menu to choose
which drive to Read From and insert the original disc into that drive.

Click the red Copy button, choose a recorder from the list, and
configure recording options, such as Number of Copies.

Click Record to continue.

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.
If you only have one drive on your computer, Toast will copy all the
contents of the original to a temporary file on your hard disk and then
write it to the blank disc. The temporary file is deleted automatically when
the copy is complete. You may need a large amount of temporary free
hard disk space depending on the type of disc you are copying.
Note: If you copy a multi-session data CD, Toast will only copy
the first session.

Copying a Disc Image File
You can copy a disc image file to CD, DVD, or Blu-ray disc. Toast supports
many popular disc image file formats, including, but not limited to: .toast,
.dmg, .img, .iso, .bin/.cue, .cdr, .sd2, and other third-party formats.
To copy a disc image file to a CD, DVD, or Blu-ray Disc:
1

From the main Toast window, click Copy.

Choose Image File from the format selection menu.

Click the Options button, if necessary, to reveal these optional disc
settings:


Use Fit-to-DVD video compression: If your original is a
DVD-Video image that is too large to fit onto a standard 4.7 GB
recordable DVD, selecting this option will compress it to fit on
the copy. See Changing Copy Options on page 43.

Copying Discs
Copying a Disc Image File

Add a disc image file by dragging it from your hard disk into the
Content Area or by clicking Select.

Insert a blank, recordable disc.

Click the red Copy button, choose a recorder from the list, and
configure recording options, such as Number of Copies.

Click Record to continue.

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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®.
To merge disc images:
1

From the main Toast window, click Copy.

Choose Disc Image Merge from the format selection menu.

Select the Mac and PC disc images to be merged into a new disc:


To select the PC disc image, click on the Select ISO Image button.



To select the Mac disc image, click on the Select Mac Image
button.

Click the red Copy button, choose a recorder from the list, and
configure recording options, such as Number of Copies.

Click Record to continue.

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Converting Media

In this chapter
Why convert audio and video?

102

Converting DVD-Video Content

103

Changing Convert Options

104

Converting Video Files

105

Creating Custom Profiles

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VideoBoost

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Converting Audio Files

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Converting Audiobooks

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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.
Toast offers a wide range of conversions:


DVD Disc: This project allows you to take an unprotected DVDVideo disc and convert the video to another format for use with a
portable device or website. You will have the opportunity to select
individual movies and extras as well as select the audio language.



Image File: This project allows you to convert a DVD-Video image
file. You will have the opportunity to select individual movies and
extras as well as select the audio language.



VIDEO_TS Folders: This project allows you to convert one or more
VIDEO_TS folders. You will have the opportunity to select individual
movies and extras as well as select the audio language.



Video Files: This project allows you to add any supported video files
to the Content Area and convert them for playback on the device or
publish directly to a video sharing site.



Audio Files: This project allows you to add any supported audio
files, including audio captured by CD Spin Doctor, and convert them
for playback on the device of your choice.



Audiobook: This project allows you to convert an audiobook on CD
to digital files you can play using iTunes, an iPod, or many other
portable devices.
Note: Conversion projects create new converted files. Your
original audio and video files remain unchanged.

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 main Toast window, click Convert.

Choose DVD Disc from the format selection menu.

Select your source disc in the pull-down menu. A summary of the
information that will be copied appears in the Content Area.

Click Options to select which individual movies, extras, and audio
languages will be converted. See Changing Convert Options on
page 104 for more information.

Click the red Convert button.

Choose the output format, device, or website for which video should
be optimized.

Select a video quality level.

Video conversion can consume a large share of your computer’s
resources. Click Schedule to run the conversion at a later time.

Choose a location such as a folder on your hard disk or send the video
directly to iTunes.

10 Click Convert to continue.

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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.

Select the Video pull down and choose the video to include:


All: All movies and extras



Main: Only the single longest-running titles



Custom: Choose the specific videos to be included.
Note: When converting video for a portable device or website,
no DVD menus will be preserved.

Select the Audio pull down and choose the audio to include:


Main: Selects the default audio track or language.



Other available languages and audio tracks will be selectable.
Note: If you set the Video option to Custom, the Audio dropdown menu does not appear. Instead, you can select audio and
language options for each individual video.

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 main Toast window, click Convert.

Choose Video Files from the format selection menu.

Add video files to the project by dragging and dropping 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.

Optional: To edit your video before completing your project, click
the EDIT button. To apply audio effects, using Audio Unit plug-ins,
click AU Filter. For more information on editing, see Editing Video on
page 48.

Click the red Convert button.

Choose a playback device, conversion format, or video sharing site
from the Device drop-down menu. The selections are broken up into
the following categories:


Apple Hardware: Choose from profiles optimized for your
favorite devices including iPad, iPhone, and AppleTV.



Video Game Systems: Choose from profiles optimized for
playback on a variety of video game consoles.



Mobile Devices: Choose from a variety of mobile devices.



File Formats: Select a specific file format including DV, H.264,
MPEG-4, QuickTime movie, DivX Plus HD, and MKV. When using
these settings you will likely want to customize the default audio
and video settings for your own purposes.

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Internet Formats: Have your video converted and
automatically published to a video sharing site or converted to
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.



Custom Profiles: Selections in this area consist of custom
profiles which you have created. For more information on
custom profiles, see Creating Custom Profiles on page 106.
Choose quality settings and an export location such as a folder
on your hard disk or iTunes.
Note: By clicking on the Preview button before beginning your
conversion, you can see how your video will look at the selected
quality level. This saves you the time of having to finish the
conversion before deciding you need to adjust the quality level.

Video conversion can consume a large share of your computer’s
resources. Click Schedule to schedule the conversion for a later time.

Click Convert.

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.

Creating Custom Profiles
You can create Custom Profiles for video conversions, which allow you to
customize any of the included presets and save your custom settings so
they can be used in the future.
To create a custom conversion profile:
1

After you have clicked the red Convert button, select New Custom
Profile from the Device pull-down menu.

Converting Media
Creating Custom Profiles

The Custom Video Export Profiles window appears, a new profile is
automatically added and you are prompted to enter a name for it.
The name of the profile will appear on the Device pull-down menu in
the future, so choose a name you will remember.

From the Format pull-down, choose a format to base your custom
settings on. You should choose the format that is closest to the
settings you want to use. For example, if you are creating a custom
video profile to convert video for your iPad, you should select the iPad
format.

Make changes to the selected format by changing options such as
Size, Aspect Ratio, Overscan, and others. You can also click Advanced
to access additional settings for both audio and video. You should
ensure that the settings you choose are compatible with the device
you are going to use for playback. It is possible to choose settings that
are not compatible with the original device or format you selected in
the Format pull-down menu.

Once you’ve completed making changes, click OK and complete your
project. You’ll see your new custom profile listed by name in the
Device pull-down menu.
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.

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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.

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.

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.

Launch Toast and create your Convert > Video Files project. Once you
are ready to begin converting video, click the red Convert button.

If you have a supported NVIDIA graphics card, you will see a new
option in this window. Ensure the new Use VideoBoost option is

Converting Media
Pause and Resume Video Conversion

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.

Pause and Resume Video Conversion
Converting video can be a very time consuming process, depending on
the format and length of the video as well as the speed of your computer.
Some machines may become sluggish when the CPU is being fully utilized
to convert your video. Encoding can be paused at any time to free up the
CPU for other tasks and then resumed later. When encoding is paused, you
can run other applications or even switch to another user account as long
as Toast remains open. If you close the Toast application, even when video
encoding is paused, you must restart the process from the beginning.
You can also Pause and Resume video encoding for disc-based projects
such as creating a DVD-Video or Blu-ray Disc. Once these projects have
finished the video encoding phase and burning to disc has begun, the
Pause and Resume option becomes unavailable. You can not pause the
burn process.
To pause or resume video conversion:
1

Click the Pause button in the video conversion progress dialog to
pause encoding.

When you’re ready to continue, click the Resume button.

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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 main Toast window, click Convert.

Choose Audio Files from the format selection menu.

Add audio files to the project by dragging and dropping them into
the Content Area from your hard disk or the Media Browser.

Add any audio effects of crossfade effects you like would applied to
your audio export.

Click the red Convert button.

Choose one of the available conversion formats:


AIFF: Creates a full quality uncompressed audio file for use on a
Mac.



WAV: Creates a full quality uncompressed audio file for use on a
PC.



AAC: Creates a high quality compressed audio file supported
by iTunes.



Apple LossLess: Creates a full quality compressed audio file
supported by iTunes.



FLAC: Creates a full quality compressed audio file. Your player
will need FLAC support. iTunes does not support FLAC.



Ogg Vorbis: Creates a high quality compressed audio file,
similar to MP3. Your player will need Ogg Vorbis support. iTunes
does not support Ogg Vorbis.

Or, if you prefer, choose a purpose for your files. You’ll find selections
for editing, for playback on a Windows computer, for playback in
iTunes, and for playback with a Sony PSP. Settings appropriate for
each purpose are selected automatically and are displayed in the
Summary area.
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Select a destination for your converted audio.

Click Options to further refine the audio settings.

Converting Media
Converting Audiobooks

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 main Toast window, click Convert.

Choose Audiobook from the format selection menu.

Insert the first disc of your audiobook into your computer’s disc drive.

If you are asked if you would like to import the contents of the disc
into your iTunes music library, click No and close iTunes. (You will
have an opportunity to add the book to your iTunes library later.)

Select your source disc in the pull-down menu. A summary of the
information that will be created appears in the Content Area.

In the Options area select the desired audio quality and playback
speed. An option to convert stereo recordings to mono is also
available.

Click the red Convert button.

Enter a name for your file and select a destination. Select the desired
format from the Convert drop-down list. If desired, select the Add to
iTunes Library checkbox.

Click Save to begin converting the disc.

10 Insert the next disc when prompted. After the final disc is converted,
click Done.
11 If you elected to add the files to iTunes, they will appear in your iTunes
Books library.

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