Toast 10 Titanium is $79 after a $20 mail-in rebate. You can also create photo slide-shows directly on the DVD. While the custom menu creation controls are not as impressive as what you get with iDVD, Toast offers some other cool features like the ability to burn EyeTV, Tivo, and web videos directly to your DVD disc. Most people think that Toast is only for creating DVD backups of your data or doing disc-to-disc copies, but it can actually make a pretty good custom DVD that is playable in any DVD player. The interface isn't very pretty to look at, but if you want a DVD authoring app that might be continually updated, this has more of a chance than iDVD. It lets you create DVDs with chapter support, animated menus with sub-menus, subtitles, and photo slide-shows. MovieGate is a step up from SmallDVD, but nowhere near as powerful as iDVD. It also has the added benefit of only creating the ISO file which can then be shared to DropBox or iDisk, and then downloaded and viewed on another computer using only the ISO - no optical drive needed. SmallDVD doesn't have many features, but it will appeal to those of you who want to create very simple DVDs with static background menus. SmallDVD is a simple utility that lets you take any video files and add them to a DVD image ISO which can then be burned onto a DVD using Disc Utility. From a purely consumer standpoint, I don't think any of these apps offer the ease of use that Apple has so successfully built into iWeb and iDVD, but given that iDVD seems all but abandoned - as should the MacBook optical drive be - and the future is uncertain for iWeb, it's always nice to know you have some alternatives. In light of that, we've compiled a list of several alternatives to iDVD and iWeb that you may want to try out.
#ALTERNATIVES TO RAPIDWEAVER FOR MAC UPDATE#
As most of you know by now, iWeb and iDVD didn't receive an update at all. Over the weekend TUAW is going to be featuring in-depth reviews of the new iLife '11 suite - or at least the three apps that were updated.
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