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[audiopostproduction]

I have Toast 6.x and beyond burning data discs, have been disappointed with the purchase.  When I bought it I needed to output a good quality DVD video disc,...  bad at that time (6.03 or so) the Hi Quality setting created all sorts of flicker.  Then there was a version that created a green vertical boarder along one side of the screen...  Finally now, any FCP or FCE file (DV/DVCPRO - NTSC, 720 x 480) has the appearance of letter box with a screwed up aspect ratio.  Seems like I often resorted to iDVD.  I like some of the possible features of 7,... when and if you can decipher them from the 'lacking in detail' literature.  Is the upgrade worth it?  Or am I going to regret it?

[tsantee]

audiopostproduction, on Feb 15 2006, 08:34 AM, said:

I have Toast 6.x and beyond burning data discs, have been disappointed with the purchase.  When I bought it I needed to output a good quality DVD video disc,...  bad at that time (6.03 or so) the Hi Quality setting created all sorts of flicker.  Then there was a version that created a green vertical boarder along one side of the screen...  Finally now, any FCP or FCE file (DV/DVCPRO - NTSC, 720 x 480) has the appearance of letter box with a screwed up aspect ratio.  Seems like I often resorted to iDVD.  I like some of the possible features of 7,... when and if you can decipher them from the 'lacking in detail' literature.  Is the upgrade worth it?  Or am I going to regret it?

Toast 7 has the Mainconcept MPEG encoder which is very highly regarded. You also have the option for manual control of the encoder settings including bit rate, 16:9 or 4:3, AC3 bit rate and more. I find Toast 7 to be far superior to Toast 6.