As a general rule, videos were nicely, though not completely tagged by Toast 10 before they were auto-imported into iTunes, including the proper video category, episode name, and comments. Connecting Elgato’s Turbo.264 can speed up the conversion process, but not the transfer process, which depends on a stable and uninterrupted Wi-Fi connection some of our transfers went flawlessly, others unexpectedly were interrupted part-way through and left us with playable but incomplete video files. Short standard-definition videos can be transferred in around an hour and then converted into an H.264 format, requiring an additional half hour or more depending on the speed of your computer.
TiVo Transfer handles HD video transfers to the iPod, iPhone, and Apple TV fairly easily-just select a file on your Wi-Fi connected TiVo and transfer it to your computer, then “Toast It” to get the file into iTunes-though there are still time, connection, and conversion issues to consider. The TiVo world has changed over the past couple of years, as Series 3/HD devices have become more popular and Series 2 devices have waned. Generally, these features work well, but with some possible hiccups that you might want to know about. It can also transform high-definition videos into Apple TV, iPod, or iPhone formats, and continues to offer the TiVo transfer functionality introduced in Toast 8 two years ago. In other words, home movie discs are okay, but anything in a theater or from Netflix is not.īut what about new features for iPod, iPhone, and Apple TV users? They’re a little less exciting, but there: in addition to still being able to digitize your LPs or cassette tapes into MP3s, and batch convert files from one format to another, Toast 10 can now convert audiobook CDs into individually chaptered, bookmarkable files, capture streaming music into tagged iTunes tracks, and, as noted, stream video from your computer to an iPod or iPhone via the web. (At press time, the plug-in is being given away for free with the standard Titanium, but this will apparently change within days.) Roxio also notes, with caveats, that Toast can “copy data, CD, DVD, and Blu-Ray Disks”-the caveats of course are that the discs can’t be copy-protected or encrypted. For camcorder fans, this is seriously useful stuff those who want to burn HD discs get the feature for free with Pro or have to cough up $20 for a plug-in with the standard version of Toast 10 Titanium. The software also automatically creates archival disc versions of video files that have been created on AVCHD cameras, which due to folder structures and multiple files isn’t as easy as it sounds.
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