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If you already own a previous version of Toast that works fine, hold off upgrading until Roxio squashes the stability issues. I’ve had great results in the past using Toast to encode as well as burn discs, but the few I attempted with version 15 exhibited noticeably lower picture quality than previous releases. Speaking of quality, Roxio appears to have taken a step backward here as well. Videos shot with the iPhone often don’t maintain the correct orientation, and the quality of the exported file is quite poor. Unfortunately, the app has its own share of problems.

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Slice, on the other hand, makes it easy to import one or more video clips, drag to select sections you want to keep, then export a new MP4 file after rearranging the resulting series of sequential clips. New to Toast 15, Slice makes it easy to trim videos down to size, but doesn’t properly display content shot with the iPhone. The latter includes a flat UI that nicely complements macOS (something Toast itself sorely needs), although it’s a fairly basic affair encrypted content can be accessed on other systems with a reader app included when a volume is written. There are two new members to the lineup: Slice, a basic editor for trimming video clips, and Secure Burn, a lightweight utility for saving password-protected files and folders to encrypted Mac-formatted discs or thumb drives.

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The Pro version now includes over 100 MyDVD menu templates (which require a separate installation from the Pro Apps folder), but lacks support for ProRes files and suffers from some of the same stability issues that plague Toast. The highlight of Toast 14 was the inclusion of MyDVD, a new application with more comprehensive authoring tools for adding chapter stops, titles, and custom menus with music. Toast 15 looks exactly like the last few versions, but adds some annoying stability issues when using the Video tab. Case in point: Although the app icon has a fresh coat of red paint, whenever I burn a disc it temporarily switches back to purple, the color used in the previous Toast 14. Given the stagnant UI, I suspect Roxio is only applying Band-Aids to the code in an effort to cash in on upgrades.

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Worse yet, if I leave the Video tab open when quitting the application, the software takes forever to launch next time. Switching to the Video tab is the real headache, which causes a spinning beach ball for up to 30 seconds the first time it’s opened. Disc-burning itself isn’t the problem I haven’t had a single coaster out of the dozens I’ve created.

My own work still relies on DVD and Blu-ray video discs, but Toast 15 is so unreliable, I’m ready to ditch this longtime favorite. One could argue this makes sense given the shrinking market for optical discs in the first place, and the fact Apple no longer produces Macs with an internal drive to read or write them. The user interface and feature set remain unchanged from version 11, which debuted in 2011. In terms of disc-burning functionality however, time has stood still for the software. Like last year’s edition, Roxio Toast 15 is available in two flavors: The $100 DVD-only Titanium edition, and a $250 Pro bundle which adds Blu-ray and photo-centric applications the bundled Corel Painter Essentials, Corel AfterShot 3, FotoMagico 5 RE, and HDR Express 3 apps have little to do with burning discs, but if you’re in the market for such tools, Pro offers a lot of bang for the buck.