Roxio Releases Easy VHS to DVD For Macintosh

Written by aaplfan on May 27, 2009 – 3:30 pm -

Create DVD Movies from your VHS Tapes – Roxio VHS to DVD for Mac makes it easy to preserve your irreplaceable memories by transferring them to DVD to save and share for generations.

Capture:

Transfer video from your VCR to DVD in just a few clicks – the fastest way to convert your analog home video to digital

Capture video from VCRs and directly from other analog sources including Hi8, Video8 camcorders

Create:

Create VCD, SVCD and DVD movies from your own video

Edit your captured movies in iMovie to add titles, transitions and other edits

Choose from professional designed menu styles to enhance your created DVD

Share:

Post video to YouTube® or your favorite social networking sites

Convert video files to play on most popular mobile devices including iPod, iPhone and Sony PSP™


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Roxio releases Toast Titanium Pro 10.0.2

Written by aaplfan on May 1, 2009 – 4:40 pm -

Toast Titanium goes way beyond the very basic burning in the Mac OS and iLife software, and sets the standard for burning CDs, DVDs, and now Blu-ray discs on the Mac. Create superior sounding audio CDs with smooth crossfades and transitions. Enjoy your TV shows anywhere with exclusive TiVoToGo and EyeTV burning. Convert and export video for an iPod, PSP, mobile phone, and more. Burn files of any size, and automatically catalog the contents of your discs. Copy your audio CDs, movies and DVDs. There is no easier or faster way to save, share, and enjoy your digital media on disc.

What’s new in this version:

* Resolves crash issue that may occur with some FLAC audio files
* Resolves issue when converting QuickTime movies with text tracks
* Improved handling of corrupt PCM audio packets

For more information and to get your update please click here!


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Roxio Releases Update to Popcorn 3.0.3

Written by aaplfan on February 25, 2009 – 12:04 pm -

Buy Popcorn 3

Popcorn lets you enjoy your video anywhere you want, on the playback device of your choice. Easily make high quality copies of your DVDs and movies. Take television recordings from your Mac to the portable device of your choice for on-the-go viewing or fit 4 hours of video on a single layer-DVD. Now with batch video conversion, support for a broad range of consumer devices, and exclusive support for TiVoToGo transfers, your video will go everywhere you do.

What’s new in this version:
Resolves compatibility issues with newer MacBook and MacBook Pro models


Get it While Its Hot - Roxio Popcorn 3


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Roxio launches Toast 10 Titanium at Macworld Expo

Written by aaplfan on January 5, 2009 – 4:43 pm -

Buy New! Toast 9 Titanium

Roxio, a division of Sonic Solutions, today announced the immediate availability of Toast 10 Titanium, the latest version of the company’s market-leading burning and digital media software for the Mac. The latest version helps 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: Mac2TiVo for sending home movies and other video content from a Mac to a TiVo DVR; 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, and a Web video file capture and conversion tool that allows Web-based video to be enjoyed on DVD or mobile devices. Toast 10 Titanium is available today at www.roxio.com and at Macworld Expo booth #2238.

"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 Vito Salvaggio, vice president of consumer products, Sonic Solutions, in the press release. "This latest version will have special appeal to consumers that want to easily move digital media between their Mac and digital devices such as the iPhone and TiVo, 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.
• Mac2TiVo – Send standard definition and HD video from your Mac to your TiVo DVR for viewing on your TV.
• Web Video To Go – Save Web video from your favorite 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 programs, such as EyeTV recordings and TiVoToGo transfers on your iPhone or iPod touch over Wi-Fi 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 – Synchronize folders bi-directionally between multiple computers, network volumes or external hard disks.
• Stunning DVDs – Create personalized DVDs with any of the over 20 new DVD and Blu-ray Disc menu styles—available in both full screen and high-definition widescreen versions.

Introducing Toast 10 Titanium Pro

Today Roxio also released 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 high-def (HD) video footage from AVCHD™ camcorders, TiVo® 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 sound track 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.

Toast 10 Titanium is available direct from Roxio for US$99.99. Special pricing is available at Macworld Expo tradeshow. An accompanying High Definition/Blu-ray Disc plug-in, which is needed to author Blu-ray Disc video, is sold separately for $19.99 and is available free for those who purchase Toast 10 Titanium online at roxio.com through February 5, 2009. Toast 10 Titanium Pro also goes on sale today for $149.99. Click here to order your copy now!


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Parallels Desktop – 4.0.3844

Written by aaplfan on October 31, 2008 – 4:09 pm -

Parallels Desktop 4.0 for Mac

Parallels Desktop (regular edition) gives Mac users the ability to run Windows, Linux or any other operating system and their critical applications at the same time as Mac OS X on any Intel-powered iMac, Mac Mini, MacBook or MacBook Pro.

Unlike dual-boot solutions, in which users must completely shut down Mac OS X and endure a full OS start-up cycle to access a important application, Parallels Desktop for Mac empowers users with the ability to run important Windows programs like Outlook, Access, Internet Explorer and all other applications without having to give up the usability and functionality of their Mac OS X machine even for a few minutes.

Parallels Workstation – run multiple operating systems on your Windows or Linux! Click Here

Parallels Desktop 4.0 has over 40 New Features!!:

Version 4.0 has more than 40 new features:

Improves OS integration, performs up to 50% faster and incorporates a range of security, backup and power saving features. Parallels Desktop 4.0 for Mac introduces support for DirectX 9.0, DirectX Pixel Shader 2.0 and OpenGL 2.0, providing fast video performance, while the Adaptive Hypervisor dynamically allocates resources to meet user needs. The responsiveness to all applications is further enhanced as the virtualization engine has been optimized to consume 15-30% less resources than previous versions. Parallels Desktop 4.0 for Mac addresses two other primary user concerns: security and backup. The software offers users peace of mind through Parallels Internet Security powered by Kaspersky for anti-virus, firewall, scanner, recovery, filtering and identity protection as well as Acronis True Image Home backup and restore and Acronis Disk Director Suite.

Parallels Workstation – most powerful, easiest-to-use, cost-effective solution for running multiple operating systems on Windows or Linux Click Here


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DVD Copy for Macintosh

Written by aaplfan on February 20, 2008 – 4:32 pm -

DVD Copy for Mac is DVD copy Mac software to copy DVD movie with the entire movie in 1:1 ratio perfectly in the cases of copying DVD-5 to DVD-5, DVD-9 to DVD-9, DVD-5 to DVD-9; compress DVD-9 (dual-layer DVD) to one DVD-5 disc easily. The DVD copy Mac software can also copy DVD movie with the main movie only.

Click here to order now!

DVD Copy for Mac Introduction

DVD Copy for Mac can copy DVD movie with the entire DVD movie in 1:1 ratio perfectly in the cases of copying DVD-5 to DVD-5, DVD-9 to DVD-9, DVD-5 to DVD-9; and compress DVD-9 (dual-layer DVD) to one DVD-5 disc easily. It also allows you copying DVD’s main movie only.The DVD copy Mac software has many other advanced features such as selecting subtitles and audio tracks, removing menus, removing CSS-encryption and so on, which could help you creating customized DVD copy on Mac.The Mac DVD burner contains powerful functions of DVD burning. The Mac DVD burning software can not only copy DVD movie to ISO file or DVD folder and back up DVD to hard disc drive on Mac, but also burn DVD on Mac to copy ISO file and DVD folder to DVD. Do not hesitate to FREE download DVD Copy for Mac to have a wonderful experience now!

Key Features

Fast in speed and simple in settings
The DVD copy Mac software can burn DVD in fast speed with simple settings you can easy to control for Mac DVD burning without any problem. The whole interface is excellent in look and feeling.

Compress D9 to one D5
Compress DVD-9 (dual-layer DVD) to one DVD-5 disc easily on Mac OS X

Copy DVD movie on Mac in 1:1 ratio
The DVD copy Mac software can copy DVD with the entire disc perfectly including titles, menus, subtitles and audio tracks. And it support DVD-9 to DVD-9, DVD-5 to DVD-5 in 1:1 ratio

Support Dual Layer DVD copy
The Mac DVD copying software can do lossless copy of the entire DVD-9 movie to 8.5GB Dual Layer recordable media (DVD+R/RW, DVD-R/RW) in 1:1 ratio

You can create Customized DVD Copy at will
The DVD copy software for Mac allows you to select subtitles or audio tracks to create customized DVD copy and optionally remove DVD menus and copy DVD with main movie separately to preserve anything you wantHigh flexibility providedDVD Copy for Mac supports both NTSC and PAL DVD movie copying. The DVD copy Mac software works well with DVD+-R/RW, DVD-RAM, most DVD players and burners, and Dual Layer 8.5GB discMac Clone DVD softwareDVD Copy for Mac is also clone DVD Mac software as it copies the whole DVD movie to DVD in 1:1 ratio

Click here to order now!


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DVD2One X V2.3.0

Written by aaplfan on February 20, 2008 – 4:29 pm -

Product Description:

With this tool you can make movie-only and full disk copies for personal use on a single DVD-Recordable.

  • World’s fastest video compression engine. Process a movie to fit on a single recordable in a matter of 15 to 30 minutes (depending on the speed of your computer).
  • Makes movies-only copies. Why waste space and image quality on unnecessary intros, menus and language tracks?
  • Makes also full disk copies. For those who want to keep those fancy menus and intros.
  • Written from scratch, it’s not based on any old code, libraries or existing opensource projects.
  • Time critical parts written in assembly, for the highest possible speed.
  • Burn the movie with your favorite recording software!

What’s new in this version:

  • New option for movie-only and join mode: Target. This option defines what type of output files will be created:
  • DVD Player: this is the default target and will create a dvd-video fileset that will play on any dvd player.
  • Media Player: this will output a single VOB file which should play on most media players.
  • PS3 USB HDD: this is a special mode for creating a single VOB file that will play directly from an USB Hard Disk Drive on the PS3. It does essentially the same as target Media Player, but the output size is automatically limited to 4GB. Also special warnings are displayed for audio and subtitle tracks that can not be played from the XMB. Please read manual for more info.
  • New advanced option: support for dvd-video filesets bigger than 9GB:
  • The extra data is place in the 9th VOB file (thanks to Blutach for the idea!).
  • This option can be used to create large joins for re-encoding with other tools.
  • The output plays perfectly fine with Apple DVD player, VLC, PowerDVD and Media Player Classic.
  • Please note that dvd-video filesets bigger than 9GB are not compliant and may not work properly with other 3rd party tools or dvd players.
  • Fixed incorrect error message when the default output location does not exist (thanks to Aaron for the tip!).
  • Mac: made work-around for transparency bug in panels on OS-X Leopard (10.5).

For more information visit www.dvd2onex.com


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Roxio Releases Crunch For Macintosh

Written by aaplfan on February 20, 2008 – 4:28 pm -

Roxio Crunch™ Convert DV, AVI, MOV, MPEG-4, MPEG-2, DivX, DVD-Video, Video_TS folders, and more Automatically add converted video to your iTunes library for easy syncing with your Apple TVTM, iPod®, or iPhoneTM Powerful award-winning video conversion technology from the makers of Toast®. Roxio Crunch™ is the essential video converter for your Apple TVTM, iPod®, and iPhoneTM. Take your video in to the living room or the palm of your hands fast and simple. Roxio Crunch is a one-stop shop for all of your video conversion needs. Batch export will make your life even simpler: converted video will be automatically added to iTunes for syncing. Don’t just convert it, Crunch it!

Flexible Inputs Supports the widest range of video file formats available including QuickTime files and popular non-QuickTime video file formats such as DivX and MPEG-2 files.

Device Profiles Choose from multiple MPEG-4 and H.264 quality settings tailored specifically for use with your Apple TV™, iPod®, or iPhone™. Easily choose between standard and high quality output, or customize your own quality settings.
DVD-Video Support Convert DVDs and VIDEO_TS folders. Maximize video quality and save space by selecting individual video titles and languages.
Batch Conversion Save time by adding multiple videos files and have them converted in one step. Mix and match content with both 16:9 widescreen and 4:3 fullscreen aspect ratios.

Roxio’s Crunch for Macintosh is available now for $39.99. For more information click here!


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HandBrake 0.9.2 – Leopard Only!

Written by aaplfan on February 20, 2008 – 4:10 pm -

HandBrake is a GPL’d multiplatform, multithreaded DVD to MPEG-4 ripper/converter. HandBrake was originally available on the BeOS, but now has been ported over to MacOS X and to GNU/Linux.

  • Supported sources:
    • Any DVD-like source: VIDEO_TS folder, DVD image or real DVD (even encrypted)
    • PAL or NTSC
    • AC-3, LPCM or MPEG audio tracks
  • Outputs:
    • File format: MP4, AVI or OGM
    • Video: MPEG-4 or H.264 (1 or 2 passes or constant quantizer encoding)
    • Audio: AAC, MP3, Vorbis or AC-3 pass-through (supports encoding of several audio tracks)
  • Misc features
    • Chapter selection
    • Basic subtitle support (burned into the picture)
    • Integrated bitrate calculator
    • Picture deinterlacing, cropping and scaling
    • Grayscale encoding

 

What’s new in this version:

 

  • Dolby Digital 5.1 (AC3) sound in MP4 files, for a true DVD experience on the AppleTV and in Perian.
  • Multi-track audio support for Apple devices
  • iPhone-compatible anamorphic video at its full size
  • Variable frame rate encoding with detelecine filtering
  • More flexible, “loose” anamorphic video
  • MP4 optimization for progressive web downloads
  • Dynamic range compression for encoding from AC3 audio
  • Robust program and transport stream support
  • A fresher, faster version of x264
  • Tuning of FIFO sizes by processor count
  • Better handling of audio discontinuities
  • Better handling of DVD read errors
  • Work-arounds for missing end-of-cell markers
  • Recovery when streams have signal loss
  • Better synced chapter markers
  • Better handling of B-Frames
  • No more cutting off the very ends of films
  • No more lost subtitles or chapter markers
  • No more crashes in 2-pass encoding

  For more information visit HandBrake website at - http://handbrake.fr/


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