I discovered Screenblast when I was pulling my hair out on the Pinnacle Studio 8 Forum. JohnnyRoy suggested Ulead's Movie Factory 2 to me, and it worked great. Then I got Screenblast 3.0, again, per JohnnyRoy's suggestion. I just finished my first large movie with it, and am ready for mpeg-2 encoding and DVD burning. But now I see the newest version of Movie Factory includes ac-3 support. Does anyone know if this is worth it, in terms of being able to devote the space saved by ac-3 toward a higher bit rate? Would ac-3 present any compatibility issues?

Last time out, I used tmpgenc with toolame audio encoder, then burned with MF2. Is there something better now? (but cheap of course). I might try Cinecraft, have heard it's as good as tmpgenc but faster.

Sorry to ask here, but I didn't see much help on the ulead board. Hoping someone might have an idea.

Bob