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What's New in Toast Titanium 5.0?
			
New Graphical User Interface
Our research has shown that most CDs burned are one of three types: Data CDs, Audio CDs, or Copies of CDs. You can now easily access these popular formats through the big buttons at the top of the interface. You can access the advanced CD and DVD formats through the "Other" drop-down menu.

Background Burning
Toast now has the ability to burn CDs in the background while you use other applications in the foreground. Toast will allocate as many system resources as it needs to complete a burn successfully. If there are no resources left, the burn may still fail with a buffer underrun error unless a drive with buffer underrun prevention is used. However, we expect this to  happen rarely.

Video CD Preparation
Toast Titanium now automatically prepares digital video files for Video CD format. Video CDs can be played on computers (cross platform) and the majority of consumer DVD Video players. Toast Titanium includes a QuickTime codec that encodes digital video into MPEG-1 format and burns it to Video CD. This extension is available to any QuickTime compatible application, such as QuickTime Player and Final Cut Pro, and is usually accessible from the "Export Movie" menu. Toast Titanium also includes a plugin for iMovie that allows you to burn your movie to Video CD directly from iMovie. (Requires iMovie 2.0.1 or later) In addition, any QuickTime movie can be used to create a Video CD by simply dragging it onto Toast's Video CD format. Toast no longer requires MPEG-1 Video CD streams to be "Toast Ready".

DVD Mastering
All the features and functionality of Toast DVD, RoxioÕs premiere DVD mastering solution for Macintosh, have been merged into Toast Titanium. A DVD menu item has been added to the "Other" drop down menu. Toast Titanium fully supports DVD-R and DVD-RW recorders, DVD-RAM drives, and DLT tape drives. Toast Titanium has complete support for DVD-ROM premastering and is the ideal companion to DVD-Video authoring products such as AppleÕs iDVD and DVD Studio Pro.

New MP3 Disc Format
Toast Titanium can now automatically create CDs that are playable in MP3 CD-ROM audio players. Toast Titanium will offer to correctly name the MP3 files and automatically burn the files into the proper format (hybrid HFS/ISO9660). The new MP3 format is accessed from the "Other" drop down menu.

Improved Data CD Format
Toast now supports Apple's Mac OS Extended (HFS Plus) file system. Also, this new version of Toast greatly simplifies the creation of cross-platform (hybrid) discs. You can now select which format(s) a data CD will be written in: Mac OS only, Mac OS and PC, Mac OS Extended only, or Mac OS Extended and PC. 

Improved Audio CD Format
Toast now uses QuickTime to convert audio files for which it has no built-in support. Simply drag and drop any file that QuickTime understands onto the Audio pane and Toast will convert the file into standard audio format. If the QuickTime file is a video or movie, the audio will be extracted and turned into an audio track. Please note that QuickTime cannot extract audio from MPEG movies.

Improved CD Copy Format
ToastÕs CD copy format has been greatly improved. Toast will now copy all compliant, not copy-protected DVDs and single session CDs. This includes CD-ROMs, Audio CDs, Video CDs and other CD-ROM XA and Mixed Mode CDs. Only the first session of a multisession CD will be copied. Only Apple CD-ROM, DVD-ROM, DVD-RAM drives, and recorders controlled by Toast CD Reader are supported as source devices.

Online Help System
Toast now provides Apple HTML help throughout the application. You can invoke it via the Help button (the question mark) on the Toast main window, by using the Help menu, or by pressing the Help button on your keyboard.

Other New Features and Improvements

Name CD at Front End
In Toast you can now name the CD immediately without having to go to another window. This feature saves time and is a more direct way of naming the CD. The new user interface displays a CD as a hierarchical list of folders with the top folder being the name of the CD. You can edit this name inline.

Abort Burn Button 
You can cancel disc burning after it starts. Canceling a real (not simulated) burn will usually render the disc unusable. 

Mixed Mode changes
Mixed Mode CDs (CDs that contain both data and audio in one session) are rarely used these days. Multisession discs are the preferred method of delivering both audio and data on the same disc. Toast Titanium continues to fully support Mixed Mode CD creation, although the interface has changed. You can combine audio tracks with data by holding down the Option key while clicking "Record" while in the Data format. A dialog window will appear to explain the options.

Improved Track Name Lookup
FreeDB is now the default choice for automatically looking up track names via the Internet. You can use CDDB or any other database server by entering its web address in the Toast Preferences window.


Known Limitations

Not all CDs or DVDs can be copied using the Copy format. If you experience trouble copying certain CDs try saving it as a disc image first or use another format. If you experience trouble copying non-copy protected DVDs try saving it as a disc image first or use the DVD format.

The file "Toast Guide" must be located in the same folder as the Toast application in order for the online help to work properly. You may receive the error message: "Help is not available because a Mac OS error of type Ð35 occurred É" if the "Toast Guide" file is not in the same folder as Toast.


Troubleshooting Toast

If you are experiencing any problems or have any questions, please check to make sure that you have the latest version of this product. If there is an issue it may already be corrected with a newer version. 

Hints and Tips on using Toast

We recommend that you always run a simulation prior to actually burning a CD. Should there be an issue either with simulation or actual recording try the following suggestions:

Reduce the record speed. CD recorders are very time sensitive. If data is not presented to the drive at the correct time the burn will fail with a "Buffer Underrun" error. Reducing the record speed allows more time for the hardware and software to present the drive with the proper data at the proper time.

Increase the Cache size. There is a Preferences menu item under the Edit menu that allows you to increase the RAM cache used by Toast. The higher the cache, the more data Toast can load into memory before it actually starts recording.

The audio format sends more data per second than other formats. If you are able to correctly burn discs in other modes but fail while writing an audio CD, please increase the cache size or decrease the record speed as described above.

If you experience any problems using your CD recorder to read or write CDs, please check RoxioÕs web site for a software update and check with the manufacturer of your recorder for firmware updates.

System Compatibility Notes
Toast requires a Power Macintosh computer running Mac OS 8.6 to 9.1. If you have a FireWire CD Recorder and Mac OS 8.6, we recommend you install AppleÕs FireWire 2.3.3 update. If you have a FireWire CD Recorder and Mac OS 9.0 to 9.0.4, we recommend you install AppleÕs FireWire 2.5 update. If you have a USB CD Recorder, we recommend you install AppleÕs USB Storage Support 1.3.5 update. Because older PowerBook computers do not support SCSI Manager 4.3, only the following PowerBook computers are supported by Toast with SCSI CD recorders: PowerBook 2400, 3400, PowerBook G3 Series, PowerBook G3 Series (Bronze). The Toast iMovie plugin requires iMovie 2.0.1 or later.

Mac OS X Support
Roxio is dedicated to the Apple Macintosh market and will provide support for AppleÕs new operating system, Mac OS X. A free update to provide Mac OS X support for Toast Titanium will be posted to RoxioÕs web site (http://www.roxio.com) after Mac OS X is released.