Phoenix Software has announced the immediate availability of Toast 10 Titanium, the latest version of Roxio's market-leading burning and digital media software for the Mac. The latest version helps greatly enhance and extend Mac OS X and iLife applications with a broad range of additional capabilities for creating, sharing, and enjoying personal digital media content.
Toast 10 delivers groundbreaking digital media functionality to Mac users, with a range of pioneering features that includes: an audiobook creator for converting audiobook CDs into files compatible with portable devices; AVCHD Archive for quickly backing up original content from high-definition camcorders onto DVD or Blu-ray Disc (BD), and a Web video file capture and conversion tool that allows Web-based video to be enjoyed on DVD or mobile devices.
"Toast is far more than better burning on Mac OS; it's about enabling users to manage, create, enjoy and simply do more with their personal library of digital photos, music, and video," said Jason Phillips, Sales Director at Phoenix Software. "This latest version will have special appeal to consumers who want to easily move digital media between their Mac and digital devices such as the iPhone, or enjoy Web-based video content offline."
New in Toast 10 Titanium:
* AVCHD Archive - Backup original video from AVCHD camcorders direct to DVD or BD media in one easy step. Use the discs in BD players or as source materials in future iMovie or Toast projects.
* Web Video To Go - Save Web video from your favourite video sharing sites to view offline, burn or convert it for viewing on portable players such as an iPod or iPhone.
* On-the-go Entertainment - Stream and watch television programmes, such as EyeTV recordings on your iPhone or iPod touch over WiFi with the new iPhone native application Streamer.
* Portable Audiobooks - Convert audiobook CDs into single audiobook files for playback on your iPod or other portable player - complete with individual chapters - no more individual audiobook chapter files scattered throughout your iTunes library or iPod.
* Music Builder - Expand your audio library by capturing streaming audio. Toast now automatically splits captured songs into tracks, tags them with title and artist information, and then sends them to iTunes.
* Folder Sync - Synchronise folders bi-directionally between multiple computers, network volumes or external hard disks.
* Stunning DVDs - Create personalised DVDs with any of the over 20 new DVD and Blu-ray Disc menu styles - available in both full screen and high-definition wide-screen versions.
Introducing Toast 10 Titanium Pro
Today Phoenix software also announced the local availability of Toast 10 Titanium Pro aimed at prosumers, creative professionals and designers, as well as photo and video hobbyists.
In addition to offering everything available in Toast 10 Titanium, Toast 10 Pro includes the high-definition/Blu-ray Disc plug-in as well as these award-winning, third-party applications for developing advanced photo, video, and audio projects:
* HD/BD Plug-In - Author HD video content on to standard DVDs and Blu-ray Discs. Take HD video footage from AVCHD camcorders, and EyeTV and create Blu-ray Discs or even standard DVDs with HD content that can be played on any standard Blu-ray set top box or PlayStation 3 game console.
* SmartSound Sonicfire Pro - Orchestrate the perfect soundtrack to accompany videos and slideshows. Use Sonicfire Pro's unique automatic "Mood Mapping" feature or select from a library of included music tracks and adjust the mix and feel of the score to perfectly match your videos and slideshows.
* BIAS SoundSoap - Remove unwanted noise like wind, hisses, scratches, and pops from LPs, cassettes, or almost any audio, music or video soundtrack.
* LightZone - Produce striking photos in a simple and intuitive way. Sophisticated features such as zone mapping and relight give you the control to achieve professional quality results.
* FotoMagico - Turn pictures into spellbinding slideshows with a few simple clicks, and then present them in high definition. Innovative text, transition and alignment tools ensure astonishing results. Burn your slideshow to DVD or Blu-ray Disc for easy viewing and sharing.
Pricing and availability:
Toast 10 Titanium is available from leading Mac retailers countrywide, including Incredible Connection, iStores, Project 3, DigiCape, EC Mac, CitiMAC and Access International for the suggested retail price of R1299.99 and Toast 10 Titanium Pro for R1799.99.
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Phoenix Software
Phoenix Software is a software republishing business. Founded in September 1999, PS supplies a wide range of software products to distribution and retail partners. The company focuses on niche software that is aimed at vertical markets and has an ongoing mission to bring leading-edge products to the marketplace in a timely and professional manner, while offering excellent price/performance ratios. The company's product range includes titles from leading vendors such as Ability Office, Aspyr Media, BluBox, BulkSMS, Cosmi Corporation, Cyber Acoustics, Encyclopaedia Britannica, Exspect, Feral Interactive, Idigicon,Individual Software, InterVideo, Iolo, ISL Light, Kaspersky, Lavasoft Ad-Aware, Macware, Nero, Nova, O & O Software, Onspeed, Paragon Software, Parallels, PC Tools, Pinnacle Systems, Prosoft, Punch Software, Reallusion, Roxio, S-A-D GmbH, Smith Micro, Sony Creative Software, SummitSoft, Transparent Language, Ulead, Webroot, WinZip, X-oom
For additional information, please visit http://www.phoenixsoftware.co.za.
Roxio
Roxio, Sonic's Consumer Products Group, provides a range of award-winning digital media creation, management, preservation, sharing, and enjoyment applications, field-proven SDKs, and Web-based services. Roxio solutions offer the perfect blend of ease and power, enabling consumers to achieve professional results from their photo, video, and music projects with minimal effort. Roxio's flagship applications, Creator for the PC and Toast for the Apple Macintosh, are the best-selling products in their respective categories in North American retail.
Roxio's parent company, Sonic Solutions (NASDAQ: SNIC; http://www.sonic.com) enables the creation, management, and enjoyment of premium and personal digital media content through its Hollywood to Home products, services, and technologies.
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