DVD Authoring Program

Hi. I am just wondering if anyone knows of any new DVD Authoring
programs that I could try?

So far I have tried the following:

Nero 6 (Nero Vision Express)
Good but very slow (re-encodes everything unnecessarily)

TMPGEnc DVD
Couldn't get this to work very well on my system. Lots of conflicts.
Was a fast program to use but limited features.

DVD Lab
Find it difficult to edit the video with this program unlike with Nero
and TMPGEnc DVD. If I have video of a Television program and want to
delete the beginning, end and ad breaks, it is very difficult if not
impossible to do.

There are a few others I have tried but I forgot what they were. If
anyone can suggest any other programs and new ones on the market I
haven't yet tried I'd appreciate it. I may have to make do with
<sigh>Nero</sigh> re-encoding everything for several hours until I
find that long awaited decent authoring program.

Cheers

John

John

"John" <> wrote in message
news:...
> Hi. I am just wondering if anyone knows of any new DVD Authoring
> programs that I could try?
>
> So far I have tried the following:
>
> Nero 6 (Nero Vision Express)
> Good but very slow (re-encodes everything unnecessarily)
>
> TMPGEnc DVD
> Couldn't get this to work very well on my system. Lots of conflicts.
> Was a fast program to use but limited features.
>
> DVD Lab
> Find it difficult to edit the video with this program unlike with Nero
> and TMPGEnc DVD. If I have video of a Television program and want to
> delete the beginning, end and ad breaks, it is very difficult if not
> impossible to do.
>
> There are a few others I have tried but I forgot what they were. If
> anyone can suggest any other programs and new ones on the market I
> haven't yet tried I'd appreciate it. I may have to make do with
> <sigh>Nero</sigh> re-encoding everything for several hours until I
> find that long awaited decent authoring program.
>
> Cheers
>
> John
>
>

I am not a serious DVD creator but I bought a capture card for my PC to
record TV programs. I thought it was a good way to get rid of the VCR
without buying a standalone DVD recorder. I don't think it was the brightest
idea I ever had but that's what I did.

For editing TV programs and removing commercials VideoReDo Plus is
fantastic.

I had a copy of Ulead Movie Factory 3 (SE?) that came with some hardware.
Found it easy to use to make a simple DVD. If you want to really jazz up
your DVDs you would probably want something better. Ulead would edit the
video to cut a commercial but I found getting the cut in right place to be
tedious compared to VideoReDo.

I now have a DVD player that understands fast-forwarding through mpeg2 files
so now I just burn my capture onto a DVDRW and don't bother editing
commercials or making a DVD unless I have captured something like a movie or
documentary I want to keep.

Billh

I find Womble MPEG Video Wizard very good.
Andy

"billh" <> wrote in message
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>
> "John" <> wrote in message
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>> Hi. I am just wondering if anyone knows of any new DVD Authoring
>> programs that I could try?
>>
>> So far I have tried the following:
>>
>> Nero 6 (Nero Vision Express)
>> Good but very slow (re-encodes everything unnecessarily)
>>
>> TMPGEnc DVD
>> Couldn't get this to work very well on my system. Lots of conflicts.
>> Was a fast program to use but limited features.
>>
>> DVD Lab
>> Find it difficult to edit the video with this program unlike with Nero
>> and TMPGEnc DVD. If I have video of a Television program and want to
>> delete the beginning, end and ad breaks, it is very difficult if not
>> impossible to do.
>>
>> There are a few others I have tried but I forgot what they were. If
>> anyone can suggest any other programs and new ones on the market I
>> haven't yet tried I'd appreciate it. I may have to make do with
>> <sigh>Nero</sigh> re-encoding everything for several hours until I
>> find that long awaited decent authoring program.
>>
>> Cheers
>>
>> John
>>
>>
>
> I am not a serious DVD creator but I bought a capture card for my PC to
> record TV programs. I thought it was a good way to get rid of the VCR
> without buying a standalone DVD recorder. I don't think it was the
> brightest idea I ever had but that's what I did.
>
> For editing TV programs and removing commercials VideoReDo Plus is
> fantastic.
>
> I had a copy of Ulead Movie Factory 3 (SE?) that came with some hardware.
> Found it easy to use to make a simple DVD. If you want to really jazz up
> your DVDs you would probably want something better. Ulead would edit the
> video to cut a commercial but I found getting the cut in right place to be
> tedious compared to VideoReDo.
>
> I now have a DVD player that understands fast-forwarding through mpeg2
> files so now I just burn my capture onto a DVDRW and don't bother editing
> commercials or making a DVD unless I have captured something like a movie
> or documentary I want to keep.
>
> Billh
>

I like Sony's DVD Architect 3.0c. TMPGEnc DVD I have heard is a bit
complex to figure out, DVD Lab I think is on the expensive side, Nero is
pretty decent for a quickie throw together project.



"Andy" <> wrote in message
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>I find Womble MPEG Video Wizard very good.
> Andy
>
> "billh" <> wrote in message
> news:HbX8f.14977$ ...
>>
>> "John" <> wrote in message
>> news:...
>>> Hi. I am just wondering if anyone knows of any new DVD Authoring
>>> programs that I could try?
>>>
>>> So far I have tried the following:
>>>
>>> Nero 6 (Nero Vision Express)
>>> Good but very slow (re-encodes everything unnecessarily)
>>>
>>> TMPGEnc DVD
>>> Couldn't get this to work very well on my system. Lots of conflicts.
>>> Was a fast program to use but limited features.
>>>
>>> DVD Lab
>>> Find it difficult to edit the video with this program unlike with Nero
>>> and TMPGEnc DVD. If I have video of a Television program and want to
>>> delete the beginning, end and ad breaks, it is very difficult if not
>>> impossible to do.
>>>
>>> There are a few others I have tried but I forgot what they were. If
>>> anyone can suggest any other programs and new ones on the market I
>>> haven't yet tried I'd appreciate it. I may have to make do with
>>> <sigh>Nero</sigh> re-encoding everything for several hours until I
>>> find that long awaited decent authoring program.
>>>
>>> Cheers
>>>
>>> John
>>>
>>>
>>
>> I am not a serious DVD creator but I bought a capture card for my PC to
>> record TV programs. I thought it was a good way to get rid of the VCR
>> without buying a standalone DVD recorder. I don't think it was the
>> brightest idea I ever had but that's what I did.
>>
>> For editing TV programs and removing commercials VideoReDo Plus is
>> fantastic.
>>
>> I had a copy of Ulead Movie Factory 3 (SE?) that came with some hardware.
>> Found it easy to use to make a simple DVD. If you want to really jazz up
>> your DVDs you would probably want something better. Ulead would edit the
>> video to cut a commercial but I found getting the cut in right place to
>> be tedious compared to VideoReDo.
>>
>> I now have a DVD player that understands fast-forwarding through mpeg2
>> files so now I just burn my capture onto a DVDRW and don't bother editing
>> commercials or making a DVD unless I have captured something like a movie
>> or documentary I want to keep.
>>
>> Billh
>>
>
>

"John" <> wrote in message
news:...
> Hi. I am just wondering if anyone knows of any new DVD Authoring
> programs that I could try?
>
> So far I have tried the following:
>
> Nero 6 (Nero Vision Express)
> Good but very slow (re-encodes everything unnecessarily)
>
> TMPGEnc DVD
> Couldn't get this to work very well on my system. Lots of conflicts.
> Was a fast program to use but limited features.
>
> DVD Lab
> Find it difficult to edit the video with this program unlike with Nero
> and TMPGEnc DVD. If I have video of a Television program and want to
> delete the beginning, end and ad breaks, it is very difficult if not
> impossible to do.
>
> There are a few others I have tried but I forgot what they were. If
> anyone can suggest any other programs and new ones on the market I
> haven't yet tried I'd appreciate it. I may have to make do with
> <sigh>Nero</sigh> re-encoding everything for several hours until I
> find that long awaited decent authoring program.
>
> Cheers
>
> John
>

Going by your list and comments, I would you use
www.VideoReDo.com to do the simple cuts & joins
then feed the results to DVD Lab. DVD Lab is more
complex than my favorite TDA, but it is almost as good
as the $1500 Sonic Scenarist (SE) (The regular version
of Scenarist is over $10,000) DVD Lab Pro is ~$200

Luck;
Ken

On Sun, 30 Oct 2005 03:08:51 +0000, John <> wrote:

>There are a few others I have tried but I forgot what they were.

You can do sizing and joins with DVD Shrink. It will create hidden
titles and preserve the chapter structure of the original. No menus so
you will have to use the Go To feature on your player. But that's easy
enough.

Most of those authoring programs screw things up. For example, Ulead
Movie Factory 4 screws up the audio sync (and VideoReDo is not able to
fix it), it does not preserve subtitles, etc.

These are still pioneering times for DVD. It's going to take a while
longer to get things working properly.


--

If you build a man a fire and he will be warm for a day. If you
set a man on fire, he will be warm for the rest of his life.

On Sun, 30 Oct 2005 01:35:23 -0500, "Ken Maltby"
<> wrote:

>I would you use www.VideoReDo.com to do the simple cuts & joins

Won't you lose subtitles doing that?


--

If you build a man a fire and he will be warm for a day. If you
set a man on fire, he will be warm for the rest of his life.

seascape wrote:
|| "Andy" <> wrote in message
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||| I find Womble MPEG Video Wizard very good.
||| Andy
|||
||| "billh" <> wrote in message
||| news:HbX8f.14977$ ...
||||
|||| "John" <> wrote in message
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||||| Hi. I am just wondering if anyone knows of any new DVD Authoring
||||| programs that I could try?
|||||
||||| So far I have tried the following:
|||||
||||| Nero 6 (Nero Vision Express)
||||| Good but very slow (re-encodes everything unnecessarily)
|||||
||||| TMPGEnc DVD
||||| Couldn't get this to work very well on my system. Lots of
||||| conflicts. Was a fast program to use but limited features.
|||||
||||| DVD Lab
||||| Find it difficult to edit the video with this program unlike with
||||| Nero and TMPGEnc DVD. If I have video of a Television program and
||||| want to delete the beginning, end and ad breaks, it is very
||||| difficult if not impossible to do.
|||||
||||| There are a few others I have tried but I forgot what they were.
||||| If anyone can suggest any other programs and new ones on the
||||| market I haven't yet tried I'd appreciate it. I may have to make
||||| do with <sigh>Nero</sigh> re-encoding everything for several
||||| hours until I find that long awaited decent authoring program.
|||||
||||| Cheers
|||||
||||| John
|||||
|||||
||||
|||| I am not a serious DVD creator but I bought a capture card for my
|||| PC to record TV programs. I thought it was a good way to get rid
|||| of the VCR without buying a standalone DVD recorder. I don't think
|||| it was the brightest idea I ever had but that's what I did.
||||
|||| For editing TV programs and removing commercials VideoReDo Plus is
|||| fantastic.
||||
|||| I had a copy of Ulead Movie Factory 3 (SE?) that came with some
|||| hardware. Found it easy to use to make a simple DVD. If you want
|||| to really jazz up your DVDs you would probably want something
|||| better. Ulead would edit the video to cut a commercial but I found
|||| getting the cut in right place to be tedious compared to VideoReDo.
||||
|||| I now have a DVD player that understands fast-forwarding through
|||| mpeg2 files so now I just burn my capture onto a DVDRW and don't
|||| bother editing commercials or making a DVD unless I have captured
|||| something like a movie or documentary I want to keep.
||||
|||| Billh


|| I like Sony's DVD Architect 3.0c. TMPGEnc DVD I have heard is a bit
|| complex to figure out, DVD Lab I think is on the expensive side,
|| Nero is pretty decent for a quickie throw together project.
||

I can't imagine that anyone capable of turning a light on and off could find
TMPGenc DVD Author complex to figure out! It was the first authoring program
I ever used, and I don't think I've had to look at the instructions yet....
Seems to me that it is completely transparent in the way that it works.

paul

"Bob" <> wrote in message
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> On Sun, 30 Oct 2005 01:35:23 -0500, "Ken Maltby"
> <> wrote:
>
>>I would you use www.VideoReDo.com to do the simple cuts & joins
>
> Won't you lose subtitles doing that?
>

You snipped my one paragraph down to part of a
sentence, but you couldn't remove the "you" I
accidentally put in?

Dan promised subtitle support as part of a multi audio
stream version of VRD, hasn't got there yet. So I guess
you would have to use Womble for that.

Luck;
Ken

"Bob" <> wrote in message
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> On Sun, 30 Oct 2005 03:08:51 +0000, John <> wrote:
>
>>There are a few others I have tried but I forgot what they were.
>
> You can do sizing and joins with DVD Shrink. It will create hidden
> titles and preserve the chapter structure of the original. No menus so
> you will have to use the Go To feature on your player. But that's easy
> enough.
>
> Most of those authoring programs screw things up. For example, Ulead
> Movie Factory 4 screws up the audio sync (and VideoReDo is not able to
> fix it), it does not preserve subtitles, etc.
>
> These are still pioneering times for DVD. It's going to take a while
> longer to get things working properly.
>
>

Most of them don't "screw things up" for me.

Luck;
Ken