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John
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Sun Oct 30, 2005 4:40 am Post subject:
DVD Authoring Program |
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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 do with
<sigh>Nero</sigh> re-encoding everything for several hours until I
find that long awaited decent authoring program.
Cheers
John
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billh
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Sun Oct 30, 2005 4:40 am Post subject:
Re: DVD Authoring Program |
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"John" <road@runner.com> wrote in message
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| Quote: | 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 do with
sigh>Nero</sigh> re-encoding everything for several hours until I
find that long awaited decent authoring program.
Cheers
John
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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 |
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Andy
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Sun Oct 30, 2005 4:40 am Post subject:
Re: DVD Authoring Program |
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I find Womble MPEG Video Wizard very good.
Andy
"billh" <NoMail@Post2Newsgroup.Pls> wrote in message
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"John" <road@runner.com> wrote in message
news:1od8m1t0cp75v7slkrtgajhdqplbqj467i@4ax.com...
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 do with
sigh>Nero</sigh> re-encoding everything for several 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
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seascape
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Sun Oct 30, 2005 12:02 pm Post subject:
Re: DVD Authoring Program |
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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.
"Andy" <woof@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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| Quote: | I find Womble MPEG Video Wizard very good.
Andy
"billh" <NoMail@Post2Newsgroup.Pls> wrote in message
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"John" <road@runner.com> wrote in message
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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 do with
sigh>Nero</sigh> re-encoding everything for several 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
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Ken Maltby
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Sun Oct 30, 2005 12:35 pm Post subject:
Re: DVD Authoring Program |
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"John" <road@runner.com> wrote in message
news:1od8m1t0cp75v7slkrtgajhdqplbqj467i@4ax.com...
| Quote: | 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 do with
sigh>Nero</sigh> re-encoding everything for several hours until I
find that long awaited decent authoring program.
Cheers
John
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Going by your list and comments, I would you use
www.VideoReDo.com to do the simple cuts & joins
then feed the results to DVD Lab. DVD Lab is more
complex than my favorite TDA, but it is almost as good
as the $1500 Sonic Scenarist (SE) (The regular version
of Scenarist is over $10,000) DVD Lab Pro is ~$200
Luck;
Ken |
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Bob
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Sun Oct 30, 2005 7:28 pm Post subject:
Re: DVD Authoring Program |
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On Sun, 30 Oct 2005 03:08:51 +0000, John <road@runner.com> wrote:
| Quote: | There are a few others I have tried but I forgot what they were.
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You can do sizing and joins with DVD Shrink. It will create hidden
titles and preserve the chapter structure of the original. No menus so
you will have to use the Go To feature on your player. But that's easy
enough.
Most of those authoring programs screw things up. For example, Ulead
Movie Factory 4 screws up the audio sync (and VideoReDo is not able to
fix it), it does not preserve subtitles, etc.
These are still pioneering times for DVD. It's going to take a while
longer to get things working properly.
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If you build a man a fire and he will be warm for a day. If you
set a man on fire, he will be warm for the rest of his life. |
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Bob
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Sun Oct 30, 2005 7:38 pm Post subject:
Re: DVD Authoring Program |
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On Sun, 30 Oct 2005 01:35:23 -0500, "Ken Maltby"
<kmaltby@sbcglobal.net> wrote:
Won't you lose subtitles doing that?
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set a man on fire, he will be warm for the rest of his life. |
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P Pron
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Sun Oct 30, 2005 9:38 pm Post subject:
Re: DVD Authoring Program |
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seascape wrote:
|| "Andy" <woof@hotmail.com> wrote in message
|| news:dk1foj$1a38$1@otis.netspace.net.au...
||| I find Womble MPEG Video Wizard very good.
||| Andy
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||| "billh" <NoMail@Post2Newsgroup.Pls> wrote in message
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||||| Hi. I am just wondering if anyone knows of any new DVD Authoring
||||| programs that I could try?
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||||| So far I have tried the following:
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||||| Nero 6 (Nero Vision Express)
||||| Good but very slow (re-encodes everything unnecessarily)
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||||| 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.
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||||| 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.
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||||| 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
||||| do with <sigh>Nero</sigh> re-encoding everything for several
||||| hours until I find that long awaited decent authoring program.
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||||| Cheers
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|||| 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.
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|||| For editing TV programs and removing commercials VideoReDo Plus is
|||| fantastic.
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|||| 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.
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|||| 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.
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|||| 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.
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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 |
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Ken Maltby
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Mon Oct 31, 2005 4:02 am Post subject:
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"Bob" <spam@uce.gov> wrote in message
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You snipped my one paragraph down to part of a
sentence, but you couldn't remove the "you" I
accidentally put in?
Dan promised subtitle support as part of a multi audio
stream version of VRD, hasn't got there yet. So I guess
you would have to use Womble for that.
Luck;
Ken |
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Ken Maltby
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Mon Oct 31, 2005 4:07 am Post subject:
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"Bob" <spam@uce.gov> wrote in message
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| Quote: | On Sun, 30 Oct 2005 03:08:51 +0000, John <road@runner.com> wrote:
There are a few others I have tried but I forgot what they were.
You can do sizing and joins with DVD Shrink. It will create hidden
titles and preserve the chapter structure of the original. No menus so
you will have to use the Go To feature on your player. But that's easy
enough.
Most of those authoring programs screw things up. For example, Ulead
Movie Factory 4 screws up the audio sync (and VideoReDo is not able to
fix it), it does not preserve subtitles, etc.
These are still pioneering times for DVD. It's going to take a while
longer to get things working properly.
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Most of them don't "screw things up" for me.
Luck;
Ken |
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Alpha
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Mon Oct 31, 2005 4:48 am Post subject:
Re: DVD Authoring Program |
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"Ken Maltby" <kmaltby@sbcglobal.net> wrote in message
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"Bob" <spam@uce.gov> wrote in message
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On Sun, 30 Oct 2005 03:08:51 +0000, John <road@runner.com> wrote:
There are a few others I have tried but I forgot what they were.
You can do sizing and joins with DVD Shrink. It will create hidden
titles and preserve the chapter structure of the original. No menus so
you will have to use the Go To feature on your player. But that's easy
enough.
Most of those authoring programs screw things up. For example, Ulead
Movie Factory 4 screws up the audio sync (and VideoReDo is not able to
fix it), it does not preserve subtitles, etc.
These are still pioneering times for DVD. It's going to take a while
longer to get things working properly.
Most of them don't "screw things up" for me.
Luck;
Ken
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The problem is often not with authoring programs. Capture systems,
particularly hardware, as well as encoders may not produce completely
compliant mpeg files. There is also a little ambiguity in what is strictly
by-the-book compliant, since latitude was built into the protocals (it is
*adaptive* compression when not in CBR) or forced into the computing world
by clever programmers (e.g. we can shave time off processing if we ignore
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Cathy De Viney
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Mon Oct 31, 2005 5:40 am Post subject:
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VideoReDo and MF4 work just fine and I am pretty tired of you dogging them
over and over. You started with a bad file, and ended with a bad DVD...end
of story.
"Bob" <spam@uce.gov> wrote in message
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| Quote: | On Sun, 30 Oct 2005 03:08:51 +0000, John <road@runner.com> wrote:
There are a few others I have tried but I forgot what they were.
You can do sizing and joins with DVD Shrink. It will create hidden
titles and preserve the chapter structure of the original. No menus so
you will have to use the Go To feature on your player. But that's easy
enough.
Most of those authoring programs screw things up. For example, Ulead
Movie Factory 4 screws up the audio sync (and VideoReDo is not able to
fix it), it does not preserve subtitles, etc.
These are still pioneering times for DVD. It's going to take a while
longer to get things working properly.
--
If you build a man a fire and he will be warm for a day. If you
set a man on fire, he will be warm for the rest of his life. |
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Bob
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Mon Oct 31, 2005 6:55 pm Post subject:
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On Sun, 30 Oct 2005 22:36:00 -0600, "Cathy De Viney"
<ccdeviney@NOSPAM.cox.net> wrote:
Quit top posting. It makes you look like a newbie.
| Quote: | VideoReDo and MF4 work just fine and I am pretty tired of you dogging them
over and over.
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Well get used to it because I will continue when I thing it is needed.
| Quote: | You started with a bad file, and ended with a bad DVD...end
of story.
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It has nothing to do with any file. I have experienced problems with
brand new DVDs.
I am telling you that MF4 screws up audio sync and VideoReDo does not
fix it.
| Quote: | "Bob" <spam@uce.gov> wrote in message
news:4364c99f.147652578@news-server.houston.rr.com...
On Sun, 30 Oct 2005 03:08:51 +0000, John <road@runner.com> wrote:
There are a few others I have tried but I forgot what they were.
You can do sizing and joins with DVD Shrink. It will create hidden
titles and preserve the chapter structure of the original. No menus so
you will have to use the Go To feature on your player. But that's easy
enough.
Most of those authoring programs screw things up. For example, Ulead
Movie Factory 4 screws up the audio sync (and VideoReDo is not able to
fix it), it does not preserve subtitles, etc.
These are still pioneering times for DVD. It's going to take a while
longer to get things working properly.
--
If you build a man a fire and he will be warm for a day. If you
set a man on fire, he will be warm for the rest of his life.
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one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore
all progress depends on the unreasonable man."
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John
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Tue Nov 01, 2005 5:16 am Post subject:
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Do Roxio have any authoring program worth looking at? What about Sony?
Any others?
For now I am just making do with Nero Vision Express, but I am not
liking the amount of time it is taking to author.
Thanks for all the replies.
John |
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Incremental Jones
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Tue Nov 01, 2005 5:40 am Post subject:
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"John" <road@runner.com> wrote in message
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| Quote: | Do Roxio have any authoring program worth looking at? What about Sony?
Any others?
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Sony has the excellent DVD Architect but it's only avaible if you buy their
pro DV editor program Vegas. |
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