Review by Elisa 20

I was very glad, several years back, to find Toast 10 which was so much more versatile and easy to use than iDVD. That said, I have mixed feelings about Toast 12. It is now far more versatile in the music and video you can capture and convert and its nice to easily burn the discs. It’s very good at that…nice to be able to easily add voiceover to video. It does some things with conversions that many of the (easier, more affordable) video editors for PC don’t, so that’s something, since the software choices for Mac are so limited. However, the install was glitchy from the beginning and in use the program frequently crashes. I never had this problem with Toast 10, so I’m thinking it doesn’t work well with an older MacBook Pro. This is too bad because there’s obvious functionality here that would be fun to use but the frustration of working with the software quickly overwhelms that. Probably good for a newer Mac, but if you have Snow Leopard, it may just be a source of frustration.