Roxio Toast 19 Pro | CD, DVD & Blu-Ray Burner for Mac | Disc Burning, File Conversion, Multimedia Editing Suite [Mac Disc] [Old Version]

I have been a longtime user of Toast Pro and it has never let me down. I dont burn as many CD/DVDs as I once did, but it has many features (i.e. rip to digital) that I still use and need. Still agreat product.

Absolute trash! Not nearly as good as previous Mac versions. Older versions were intuitively obvious and user friendly. This version (and version 20) has glitzy graphics but wont do the things that the older versions did. Help is obscure and NOT helpful. Would return this but its too late. Cant even burn a Mac-only data CD. Not sure what the tekkies were thinking. I began programming in machine language in 1959 and have modeled nuclear systems and business systems but find this impenetrable. Its important to make software user friendly. We certainly have enough processing power and storage to make it easy. The Toast programmers need to take a couple of marketing and customer psychology courses and then try again. Or, hire the old programmers who developed the original versions.

Ive had the software for about a month and it really does remind me of the old toast programs. easy peasy. nice!

I have used TOAST for several years. It works to fill my needs. I recommend it to my friends.

Hi all, I purchased Toast 19 pro today with a promotional offer of $69.99. I like to keep the current version around every so often, in case I need, or want to create a video disc. Ive used toast since version 6, and have owned the following versions: 6,8, 11, 17, and now 19. Ive rarely had any issues with the toast app, and I dont use the extras as I prefer pro level apps for converting, or at least more than just the basics. I mainly use toast for burning and authoring discs, and as mentioned do converting, editing in other software. Whenever Ive created a DVD, or Blu-ray in toast, it usually plays fine without issues. The process is fairly straight forward Im sure the conversion time could be increased somewhat when creating the disc, but working with video ALWAYS takes time so I dont expect instant results. I took a star off, mainly because of the extras included. Some of those things Ill never use, and there is no way currently to opt out of installing them. I also look at using toast with professional production experience vs the average consumer, even though I dont currently do any professional projects, I still usually have that mindset when dealing with media. I also have a nice free solution for disc burning called Burn its a nice program, but doesnt support Blu-ray video. I sent an email to their support asking if they could add support, but that was several months ago, and since they never answered I gathered they werent interested. So, that leaves me toast as the best solution. So here are my main suggestions to people: 1. If you want to do quality burns, learn to use a real editor vs whats included, and if you want a good free, or low cost converter learn to use FFMpeg, or a nice GUI front end for it. 2. If youre a professional, or at least have good experience with production: then you already have a workflow and know what software you want and need to use for the best job. 3, Im somewhat tired when writing this review, so I apologize for my thoughts being all over the place. Plus I have a hard time with reviews at times, because sometimes I feel like I need to teach, and instruct people to give them the best source of information, and I never know who Im talking to in a place like this since its such a mix of different people, and experience levels. Anyway, I hope Ive at least given some good info to at least consider here.

Took me 3 weeks to install a working copy. It is very unstable, The old version was much better.

Burns CDs OK, DVDs dont play well on all players

Love the product!!!

It seems I tend to mix formats, NTSC- PAL. But it doesnt tell me which is which. Once it asked me If I wanted it to make all NTSC. Hasant happened since. Why must there be these Mysteries. Why does One have to be a Techie.

terrible last - not worth it my mistake I did not return it