VV3.0 to 4.0 +DVD upgrade

abm wrote on 9/3/2003, 1:53 PM
Hi all, I'm looking at uprading from VV 3.0 (and using Ulead DVD Workshop 1.0 for authoring and burning) TO the more all-inclusive VV 4.0 + DVD to try to confine all my DVD projects to one family of products, rather than have to use VV 3.0 for editing and rendering AND THEN working with ULEAD Workshop for authoring and burning.

Before I shell out about $400 for the upgrade to VV 4.0 +DVD, does anyone have any good solid reports on the overall quality of the SoFo 4.0 + DVD, either positive or negative that could help me in my decision?

Frankly, it's not even the $$ that I'm concerned about. Rather, it's an issue of trying to avoid compatiblity problems with my system hardware and software, after I perform an upgrade (I know many of you are familar with this kind of situation).

I run windows XP Professional with an M-Audio Quattro 4-Channel Sound Card, a 1gig CPU, 128Meg Ram, 80gig HD and a Pioneer 103 DVD burner capable of various formats such as -R and +R.

Any advice would be helpful, please.

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jetdv wrote on 9/3/2003, 2:26 PM
Vegas + DVD will provide you a complete solution. I like the results of encoding in Vegas or DVD Architect fine.

However, note that DVD Architect is a separate program from Vegas. You still have to edit in Vegas, render, and then bring it into DVDA where you will author and burn. However, it WILL allow the transfer of chapter points from Vegas to DVDA and DVDA can encode stereo AC-3 and use 5.1 AC-3.

Finally, the A03, A04, and A05 can burn -R and -RW. The A06 can burn -R, -RW, +R, +RW.

I've started using DVD Architect exclusively over the past few months and it has been working well. I switched from DVDit PE.