Mac Backup/DVD Burning Software

[Banbert]

Ive only had the Mac Book for about 3 or 4 weeks now and one of the nice things about it is that most things I have done since getting it has meant learning something new or finding some new software to use on it.

Ive been an IT bod on windows platforms for quite a few years now and got used to using the same old apps in the same old way, having a Mac has broken this up completely and made things interesting again.

My new best friend of an App for the Mac is Toast Titanium which is just great for backing up my photos. On a PC it would have been Nero all the way and I wouldnt have dreamt of using a Roxio product for burning, Easy CD creator for Windows was a horrid bloated app last time I tested it, but Toast for the Mac is great.

Obviously yah can burn DVD's with the standard software that comes with a mac but what I wanted to do was create a simple archive set of a 20gig directory, obviously that wouldnt fit on a single disk so I was looking around for something that would do it without me having to manaually seperate the files into DVD sized chunks for burning.

Quite a few searches and a bit of reading later Toast seemed to be the app of choice and now that I have it I cant imagine there being anything better ?

Was as simple as dragging the 20gig directory into the burn screen and then it split the files over 5 disks and all I had to do was keep posting a new disk in each time it spit the burnt one out.

I had ticked the windows and mac compatability boxes before I started it burning and so when I stuck the first disk in my windows PC it offered to restore the whole lot to a directory of my choosing on my PC, or alternatively I could browse the disk with explorer and pick off the files/directories I wanted individually and copy them to my PC, perfect, thats just what I wanted!

If youve not tried it then I highly recommend it, only downside is the UK price which is £69.99 wheras the USA people pay $79.99 ( .... I gues sthey are following Adobes ridiculous pricing structure but unfortunately theres nothing we can do about that..... least not until the euro commission starts kicking some butt :)

http://www.roxio.com/enu/store/mac.html

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[coreypolis]

Lightroom will do it when exporting, but that would be a long proccess (the exporting not the burning)

[LeesaB]

Does lightroom work with mac?

and have you used the slide show feature? It looked pretty amazing, I think it is called Ishow?

[coreypolis]

Does lightroom work with mac?

and have you used the slide show feature? It looked pretty amazing, I think it is called Ishow?
yes its cross platform, so it works on both. The slideshow function is actually very weak, but I'm sure it will be improved. The one thing it does well, is creates a slideshow with a premade tempalte for onsite viewing at a wedding. For any other function, its pretty limited as it exports as only a PDF and no music if exported.

[LeesaB]

Yes, that is what I wanted to use it for..

corey, your a mac man? I posted a thread, but it got moved..I wondered how it workd with wedding photography..

and it will be all backwards for me.

Looks like we will go mac in the fall...then this computer we will use for back up

[xmacvicar]

You don't need burning software on a Mac (I use a macbook), I just burn everything within the finder.... so whats the need?

[Rick Rosen]

I can recommend Toast 8 as well.

Rick

[joruiz]

Toast 8 is the best CD and DVD burning app for the mac. Smacvicar, it's true that you don't need it to just burn something, but oh it does make things so much easier like Banbert said.

I work my pics with Lightroom but I back up with Toast.

[Banbert]

I know I tend to waffle quite a bit but I do wonder if some people even bother reading past the thread title sometimes

You don't need burning software on a Mac (I use a macbook), I just burn everything within the finder.... so whats the need?

The point is that if the folder is bigger than the dvd then you have to start splitting it up, Toast it does it for you, in the mac burning app from what I could see you had to do it manually which is a pain.