I have a sony DRU 500a DVD burner. I want to put my home movies on to dvd. I downloaded Unlead movie factory but I dont think it is the full version. I cant make a title or make chapters. I would like to know what program is good for making a professional home DVD. I want chapters and a title in my movies. I dont want to spend the money on one and not like it. Any recomendations? HELP PLEASE!!
I'll tell you what has been a tremendous program for me for capturing, making titles, & editing: Pinnacle DV Plus.
NOTE: I don't make my chapters using Pinnacle. I'm not even sure if you CAN. I make my chapters using a seperate burning software. I've personally had no troubles using the bundled Sonic MyDVD for making chapters & burning to DVD.
ANOTHER NOTE: Pinnacle comes bundled with a certain IEEE (1394) Firewire card (you'll have to browse them to find out which one it is). 1394 is the preferred capture method (over USB).
Well I have tried about every demo out there and my favorites are these:
Capturing/Editing: Vegas Video 3.0c by Sonic Foundry
Authoring/Burning: DVDit PE 2.5
Vegas Video 4.0 +DVD is coming out later this month that includes a really powerful DVD authoring package ( www.sonicfoundry.com ) so I have a feeeling I will buy that and use it for everything. You can get a demo of VV 3 off their website, it is so easy to use and extremly powerful.
I am currently trying Pinnacle and it is good but I cant figure out how to copy to DVD it only lets me create a file of a movie. How do you go about doing this?
Crumfarm:
When authoring your own dvd's, does it normally take 8-9 hours to transcode an hour and 33 minutes worth of DV AVi footage?? I am using Pinnacle Express and that is how long it is taking me to transfer to dvd. Is there a faster method without losing the quality???
