DVD Authoring Program 281

seascape I find Womble MPEG Video Wizard very good. Andy Hi. I am just wondering if anyone knows of any new DVD Authoring programs that I could try? So far I have tried the following: Nero 6 (Nero Vision Express) Good but very slow (re-encodes everything unnecessarily) TMPGEnc DVD Couldn't get this to work very well on my system. Lots of conflicts. Was a fast program to use but limited features. DVD Lab Find it difficult to edit the video with this program unlike with Nero and TMPGEnc DVD. If I have video of a Television program and want to delete the beginning, end and ad breaks, it is very difficult if not impossible to do. There are a few others I have tried but I forgot what they were. If anyone can suggest any other programs and new ones on the market I haven't yet tried I'd appreciate it. I may have to make hours until I find that long awaited decent authoring program. Cheers John I am not a serious DVD creator but I bought a capture card for my PC to record TV programs. I thought it was a good way to get rid of the VCR without buying a standalone DVD recorder. I don't think it was the brightest idea I ever had but that's what I did. For editing TV programs and removing commercials VideoReDo Plus is fantastic. I had a copy of Ulead Movie Factory 3 (SE?) that came with some hardware. Found it easy to use to make a simple DVD. If you want to really jazz up your DVDs you would probably want something better. Ulead would edit the video to cut a commercial but I found getting the cut in right place to be tedious compared to VideoReDo. I now have a DVD player that understands fast-forwarding through mpeg2 files so now I just burn my capture onto a DVDRW and don't bother editing commercials or making a DVD unless I have captured something like a movie or documentary I want to keep. Billh

I like Sony's DVD Architect 3.0c. TMPGEnc DVD I have heard is a bit complex to figure out, DVD Lab I think is on the expensive side, Nero is pretty decent for a quickie throw together project.

I can't imagine that anyone capable of turning a light on and off could find TMPGenc DVD Author complex to figure out! It was the first authoring program I ever used, and I don't think I've had to look at the instructions yet.... Seems to me that it is completely transparent in the way that it works.

paul