DVD Authoring?

earthrisers wrote on 8/9/2001, 4:41 PM

Any chance that SFoundry will be introducing (in Vegas, or as a separate product) a package to author DVDs? ...i.e., to create the kinds of interactive menus, "chapters", etc. that DVD players can take advantage of?

The product could ideally, but wouldn't necessarily have to, include the ability to control the actual burning to a DVD-R machine.
Fantasizing & hopeful...
Ernie

Comments

UNBP wrote on 8/10/2001, 12:25 AM

Good suggestion. Vegas is a natural to do DVD or VCD burning, the leading DVD authoring products (DVDit, Spruce) leave a lot to be desired. The Pioneer DVD player is now

teomorell wrote on 8/11/2001, 1:05 PM

UNPB.
Can a DVD disk burned with the Pioneer DVD be played on standar home DVD players?

Thanks

MacMoney wrote on 8/11/2001, 9:33 PM

You can get DVD ram drives from www.dirtcheapdrives.com from $280-$1300.We picked up three 5.2gb SCSI's about a year ago for $280. I aske Sonic Foundry the same thing about DVDs and Vegas Video. The only way we will get it is to make some noise and keep bugging them about it.

George Ware

Cheesehole wrote on 8/13/2001, 2:09 AM

Firstly, yes the Pioneer burns DVDs that are readable by all (or at least the vast majority of) standard DVD decks.

The DVD RAM drives mentioned in the last post do not. But they do work in PC based DVD setups with PowerDVD or whatever.

Not trying to be negative, but DVD Authoring really belongs in a separate app. It's way to complex to just stick on to Vegas.

That said, I'd love to see a DVD authoring tool with a Vegas-like interface. To be a good DVD app, it would have to support multiple audio/video tracks, multiple camera angles, fully featured menu programming, chapter markers, and most importantly, have a kick-ass MPEG plugin with support for manual I-Frames, 2pass VBR and all the other stuff you need to make MPEGs that rival the stuff you get at the store.

Maybe Vegas just needs a really good MPEG-2 plugin that can do all that pro stuff and we can leave the DVD authoring to a separate app. I'd pay extra for it of course if it was a pro-level MPEG plugin that had manual frame-type markers built right into the Vegas interface. That would be so cool. The plugin would have to add a third marker track to Vegas for the frame-type (I,B, or P) markers. And it would have to deliver quality at least as good as TMPGenc which is free.

Then we open up our final mpegs in VegasDVD which has all the DVD specific stuff like chapter markers and menus and multiple cameras/audio etc...

so how about it?