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Vote! what is the best DVD authoring software
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tdfuller
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29. March 2004 @ 12:12 |
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Ok. I know this has been asked before, but new software comes out all the time. I need a plain, simple, easy to use DVD Author software, simply and ONLY to author DVDs after I have converted the DVD movies from PAL to NTSC using TMPGEnc.
I have a trial of DVD Lab and I like it. But is $100 to buy. It is simple to use, but also has many features I dont need. All I need to is encode, create image, burn DVD, and stick the DVD in the player and go. Now fancy menus and stuff needed.
Please send me your vote.
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Discmania
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30. March 2004 @ 08:29 |
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tdfuller
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30. March 2004 @ 09:44 |
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Thanks!... Please anybody else have ideas?
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Discmania
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30. March 2004 @ 13:48 |
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Forgot to mention that if you have or get Nero 6 ultra it includes Nero Vision Express which is a full DVD authoring programme (no editing). Considering the price of Sonic it is probably a better deal since you will also have the latest burning rom updates aswell as audio editing and a decent DVD player all rolled into one. If you don't want to spend any money at all though you are best with Ulead who generously give you a free 30 day trial download of their top DVD authoring software with no restrictions:
http://www.ulead.com/dws/runme.htm
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Manngo
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30. March 2004 @ 21:41 |
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Sonic is the best, but not mydvd (home edititon for $99). Sonic Scenarist is a professional DVD authoring program, used by big studios to create the retail DVDs. It can handle even dual-layer discs. (can mux 8 video, 16 audio, unlimited subtitle streams, if I remember well) Price is according to feature $39.000.
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whassup
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31. March 2004 @ 13:24 |
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Yup, Sonic Scenarist is excellent.
For the average user, DVD-Lab is also very good. The only drawback is it's unable to do multiple audio tracks. However, for everything else, it's very good.
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31. March 2004 @ 13:31 |
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That depends on what kind of authoring. For home users I'd say DVD-Lab. For a few more features (subtitles, multiple audio tracks) I'd probably say DVD-Lab with IfoEdit (and sometimes Rejig). If extremely simple authoring is all I need (mux, set chapters, no menus) I use Rejig by itself.
If you want to encode, you can do it through an authoring package, but on the other hand you can get CCE Basic for $58 and it will give you much better quality. It's a little more work (not much once you've done it a couple of times), but it's very fast and you can do all the authoring with free software.
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This message has been edited since posting. Last time this message was edited on 31. March 2004 @ 13:40
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tdfuller
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31. March 2004 @ 14:00 |
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Thanks Varul. Hey Varul, I have DVD-Lab. I want to keep my subtitles when I convert to NTSC. Can you tell me how using IFOEdit?
Thanks,
Todd
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tdfuller
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31. March 2004 @ 14:05 |
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Opps, I meant to call you Vurbal not varul.
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31. March 2004 @ 14:38 |
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This message has been edited since posting. Last time this message was edited on 31. March 2004 @ 14:39
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tdfuller
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1. April 2004 @ 01:53 |
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Vurbal, OK Thanks for the tip. But do you think this will work with the added complication I have of converting from PAL to NTSC? I use a program called DVD2AVI to create the necessary video and WAV files to feed through TMPGEnc. Somewhere along the way, I lose the subtitles. So I must figure out where to first convert the subtitles to NTSC using your guide, in this whole conversion process.
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