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wolfbass wrote on 12/6/2004, 10:51 PM
Anything by ROXIO - NOT!
p@mast3rs wrote on 12/6/2004, 10:51 PM
Adobe Encore DVD.
Grazie wrote on 12/6/2004, 10:54 PM
LOL .. Wolfie! .. .
DGates wrote on 12/7/2004, 12:47 AM
DVD Workshop 2
busterkeaton wrote on 12/7/2004, 1:34 AM
Some folks here use DVDlab, do a search and you'll find plenty of comments, pro and con.
John_Cline wrote on 12/7/2004, 2:13 AM
I occasionally use DVD Lab, but my "go to" DVD software is Adobe Encore.

John
kentwolf wrote on 12/7/2004, 3:14 AM
Adobe Encore DVD (1.5).
farss wrote on 12/7/2004, 4:15 AM
Scenarist.
No, I'm not joking. I've found by using a bit of the old grey matter, DVDA2 and PS, I've been able to do everything that HAS to be done for the DVDs that I produce. I now make a reasonable living out of it as well.
Giving my client base I cannot see anyway that going to something that gives me 20% more is viable. If I wanted to take the next step up it'd be a BIG one, totally different clients and they'd be hard to come by but they'd pay accordingly.
Not only would I need better authoring, I'd need to be able to ingest 4:2:2, use better encoders, and output to DLT. The number of hours to author a DVD would go up at least 10 times as well.

So before you go looking elsewhere ask yourself what do you need to do that DVDA cannot handle, more to the point, what do clients need in their DVDs that DVDA cannot handle? Bear in mind, my average client just wants a DVD that plays the movie, when I ask about menus they get confused. So I figure my competition in many cases is a STB DVD burner and they're getting smarter by the day.

Bob.
goshep wrote on 12/7/2004, 6:11 AM
Is DVDA2 compatible with dual layer media and burners? If not, is there an update expected or will this be a VV6/DVDA3 feature?
logiquem wrote on 12/7/2004, 6:36 AM
It depend of the utilisation and budget, but DVD Lab is a truly interesting piece of soft. Unique features, very logical and intuitive interface, absurdly cheap and no lost upgrade to pro version.

The only issue i encontered myself was some instability with W2k.

Make a try and see by yourself.
ScottW wrote on 12/7/2004, 6:36 AM
The "official" statement from SonyEPM on the DVDA forum is that DVDA prepared projects are NOT compatable with DL burning software or DL burners - they are aware of the desire to have this feature though - no statements as to when it will be available have been made (nor would I expect any).

Now, there is burning software available that claims to be able to burn DL DVD Video - Nero and CopyToDVD are 2 examples. I can't offhand think of any reason why this software shouldn't be able to take a DVDA project and burn it to DL, but I cannot recall anyone claiming they've actually done this (though I'm going to give it a try in a day or so), and then there's the statement from SonyEPM that it's not supported (which makes sense - they probably don't want folks coming after them for the cost of DL coasters).

DVD Lab and DVD Lab Pro both claim to support DL DVD Video creation when using CopyToDVD to burn the project. Lab Pro contains some pre-mastering hooks that give you a certain level of control over where the layer break is set, but it's not clear how or if CopyToDVD honors this information (again, I may know more in a few days).

--Scott