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DVD Software q's

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texazed

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I need a recommendation for good DVD burning software.

What I want:
  • Record video over firewire from my DV camera
    edit scenes to take out junk
    insert titles
    create a menu
    create chapters that can be navigated to from the menu or hitting the >>| key
    preview
    publish on DVD

thanks for any recommendations up front.
 
Thanks Dave.

I looked all through that site and really cound't find the information I need in a format I had the time to deal with. It would take me a month to get though all of that and come to a conclusion.

What do people here use?

I have an HP drive that came with Sonic My DVD, however I think the lack of documentation is getting me.

 
It depends on how good you want the quality to be. I use Scenalyzer to capture, CCE Basic to encode and DVD Movie Factory 2 to author and burn. My projects come out looking just like the original. You can capture, encode and author with DVD Movie Factory, but the encoding isnt that great. You can get TMPGEnc to encode for free and it looks great, however the encoding time takes forever (for a 1 hour clip expect 4 hours or better to encode). I use CCE Basic which costs $58 but the quality is amazing and the encoding takes about 1 hour for the same clip. This all depends on the speed of you PC. You can look at my rig and see it it pretty fast. As far as editing out stuff, you can use a program like VirtualDub which is free and a great progam. You can't capture with VirtualDub using the firewire route so I use Scenalyzer. I know that this is a lot of information to process, but if you take the time to learn things, you will end up with a great finished product.

More detailed information can be found at dvdrhelp.com like Dave suggested and at Doom9.

Sorry for the long post and good luck!!
Fishingeek
 
Well,

I finally figured out the symbiotic relationship of ShowBiz and MyDVD.

Pretty strange to have the capture and scene editing on one vendors software and the menu and burning on anothers.

That is what really confused me and lead me to make a 1hour 45 min DVD ready file for Sonic and then I couldn't add menus. I now know to only send one scene at a time to sonic and then I can add menus.

Thanks for the responses here.
 
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