George Hilton
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Q: Compressor v Toast

Hi

Can anyone tell me the benifits of toast or Compressor over one another.

Ta

2.93GHz Intel Core i7, Mac OS X (10.6.7), Memory 8GB also Mac OS X now (10.7)

Posted on Nov 30, 2014 5:39 AM

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George Hilton

Q: Compressor v Toast

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  • by Tom Wolsky,

    Tom Wolsky Tom Wolsky Nov 30, 2014 5:50 AM in response to George Hilton
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    Nov 30, 2014 5:50 AM in response to George Hilton

    TThey're quite different applications. Compressor can do much more in terms of formats and frame rates and sizes and codecs and a host of different things. Compressor has limited disc creation tools. Toast is primarily a disc authoring application with a lot more options for doing that, but limited amounts of other compression options.

  • by George Hilton,

    George Hilton George Hilton Nov 30, 2014 5:54 AM in response to Tom Wolsky
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    Nov 30, 2014 5:54 AM in response to Tom Wolsky

    Hi Tom

    the main reson I want one is to burn Blu-ray is one better than the other?

    Ta

  • by Tom Wolsky,

    Tom Wolsky Tom Wolsky Nov 30, 2014 6:08 AM in response to George Hilton
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    Nov 30, 2014 6:08 AM in response to George Hilton

    TToast gives you more menu options. I think there's a trial version.

  • by Lexiepex,

    Lexiepex Lexiepex Nov 30, 2014 6:17 AM in response to George Hilton
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    Nov 30, 2014 6:17 AM in response to George Hilton

    Toast will not run well in Yosemite  (found you George ).

    Lex

  • by Ziatron,

    Ziatron Ziatron May 22, 2015 1:39 PM in response to Lexiepex
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    May 22, 2015 1:39 PM in response to Lexiepex
    Toast will not run well in Yosemite

     

    Toast is working fine for me with Yosemite. (Making Blu-rays.)

     

    However, there really isn't any good Blu-ray authoring software for Macintosh anymore.   At least not on the level of what one can still do with iDVD, to make DVDs.

  • by Agent Elrond,

    Agent Elrond Agent Elrond Jun 13, 2015 12:00 PM in response to George Hilton
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    Jun 13, 2015 12:00 PM in response to George Hilton

    @George, I currently have Compressor 3.5 from FCS3, as well as a copy of Toast 12(.1) that I just picked up... and I'm having issues with the latter when trying to pass it H.264 and AC3 files - even with the "reencoding" option set to "never".  I'm debating upgrading to 4.2, as I currently can't change Qmaster settings via System Preferences, so I'm getting "off the shelf" performance vs. "use all cores" performance.

     

    The main "useful" difference seems to be that you can (supposedly) include multiple streams/tracks on the same Blu-ray disc via Toast, whereas Compressor appears to be limited to assigning a single target to an end-of-job "action" (e.g. "Create Blu-ray disc").  If I can get Blu-ray via Toast to work at all, it also looks like it may be possible to set up a Toast project for Blu-ray (change the background menu image, etc.), save it, duplicate it, then open the copy and change the destination/output to DVD - without having to otherwise setup the project from scratch.  I like the idea of making both discs "consistent" for simple projects.

     

    @Ziatron, I noticed you said "anymore"; *was* there "good Blu-ray authoring software for Macintosh" at some point in the past - and I missed it?