You can now set your video conversions to start at a specific time and date, or after a countdown set in hours and minutes.

Scheduled conversions make their Toast debut. Rival app Handbrake, encoding using its iPhone 4 preset, took 11 minutes, eight seconds. If you have one plugged in, it takes precedence over VideoBoost.Ĭonverting MacFormat's five-minute sample movie to best-quality iPhone 4 video on a 2.0GHz iMac (not CUDA) took Toast 11 six minutes, 36 seconds, but with Turbo.264, it managed it in three minutes, 34 seconds. Toast is still compatible with Elgato's Turbo.264 USB hardware accelerator too. If you have a Mac with CUDA-compatible Nvidia graphics (most recent Nvidia cards support this), a feature called VideoBoost speeds up your H.264 conversions. The media browser now integrates with Adobe Lightroom as well as iPhoto and Aperture, and outside the browser, you can just drag and drop a file into the main Toast window. You can make changes to preset profiles and save them as custom settings. Alternatively, you can save it out in a specific file format such as H.264, MPEG-4, WMV, MKV and more. There are presets to convert footage for Apple TV, Video iPod, iOS devices, most popular games consoles and non-Apple mobile devices such as the BlackBerry or Palm Pre. Toast's video conversion feature now supports a wider range of playback devices than ever before.

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