The Make Movie option in Studio is pretty user friendly, except when the generated files are too big to fit on the disk.
Firstly, when generating DVDs, there is no warning that the files are likely to be over 4.7gb. You have to wait for the rendering to finish (3hours on my steam driven Pentium 4) and then click on "Send to DVD architect".
Secondly there is no option to make the files smaller (one of my recent projects was 4.71gb!). I get the impression that the Pro version has a "Cusomize" option to reduce the bit rate but on Studio this is greyed out.
The DVD can be re-rendered in DVD arthitect using the "Fit to Disk" option, but that means recompressing twice (another 3 hours and loss of quality).
I can understand that Sony want to reserve the Customize option for higher end customers, but a warning when files are going to be too big and a "Fit to disk" option in Studio would make life a lot easier.
Firstly, when generating DVDs, there is no warning that the files are likely to be over 4.7gb. You have to wait for the rendering to finish (3hours on my steam driven Pentium 4) and then click on "Send to DVD architect".
Secondly there is no option to make the files smaller (one of my recent projects was 4.71gb!). I get the impression that the Pro version has a "Cusomize" option to reduce the bit rate but on Studio this is greyed out.
The DVD can be re-rendered in DVD arthitect using the "Fit to Disk" option, but that means recompressing twice (another 3 hours and loss of quality).
I can understand that Sony want to reserve the Customize option for higher end customers, but a warning when files are going to be too big and a "Fit to disk" option in Studio would make life a lot easier.