Ulead's MediaStudio 6.5 Director's Cut

[bertmartin]

I use VideoWave 4SE with my Adaptec 4300 firewire card for capture. TMPGE to encode to MPEG1 and burn with easy Cd creator 5. Not that sharp but watchable. I was tempted to upgrade to VideoWave 5 full version which comes out this month, but I am now leaning toward Ulead's MediaStudio 6.5 Director's Cut. Does anyone have this yet? I'm looking for a simple but good author, encode, and burn solution. Would this help? Comments?

[speedy]

Video Factory from Sonic Foundry (well known for their top of the line audio applications) is smarter and lots cheaper. Only serious omission is it don't support MPEG-2 directly and forces you to use the included Ligos codec for MPEG-1. Not a problem if you render to AVI and finish up in TMPGEnc which you'll probably want to do anyway for making VCD and SVCD.

[ziggygt]

Do not know about the Media Studio Pro version 6.5.

I have version 5.2 and am quite unhappy with the output quality. I get much better results with Video Factory (faster as well). If you do a lot of sound editing in your movies the integration with Sonic Foundry's Sound Forge cannot be beat.

[jazlee]

Video Factory from Sonic Foundry does support mpg2

I like ulead better it has more function. VF is easier and cheeper to use

[bertmartin]

Thanks for info. I looked at Video Factory review and also saw the Pinnacle Studio 7 review which was rated highly. I just bought Pinnacle Studio DC10+ for my analog captures and the Pinnacle WEB site said I could upgrade to Studio 7 in a few weeks. I might look at this option if the price is right. I will report back if I do.

[legman]

Premiere is the way to go. There is no contest. Ligo codec suxs ( trys to correct aspct in playback when you do not wwant it) ie: animorphic 640 x 480 ntsc in a 480 x 480 frame, ulead crashes all the time and has other issues.

Just use the timeline in premiere 5.5 and export to avisynth for divx encoding or the cce 2.6 for svcd and then use tmpgenc to mux audio and tscv to author the svcd.

<font size=-1>[ This Message was edited by: legman on 2001-10-09 16:19:29 ]</font>