Perfect authoring software, lost cause?

[Dance4Me]

I have been trying a few authoring programs, but so far none do what I want them too. Funny thing is I am not asking much, couple of menus, one being a scene selection menu, music in background and of course be able to burn SVCD's. Well the simple ones like Ulead Movie Factory and VCDeasy will not give me more than one menu. Well ulead does, but they don't work like you would expect them too. Anyway, I tired a couple of the more professional ones aswell, Pinnacle Impression and DvDit. Pinnacle Impression got close, but it was a little buggy, scene selection thumbnails were off (perfect in photoshop), and then I found out it wouldn't burn SVCD's, just DVD's. Oh come on, they are practicly the same. Anywho, DVDit got probably the closest. I made the menus, linked buttons, and nice backgrounds. Unfortunately there doesn't seem to be any way to add music. Everything went smoothly but when I went to burn the CD, it gave me a non DVD compliance error. It let me continue but warned that it will only work on the PC. Well considering I was using a mpeg2 in SVCD format I didn't worry much, until I put it into my DVD player. For some odd reason it thought it was a MP3 disc. I tried it on my PC and PowerDVD played it perfectly. After further investigation I noticed the folders and files on the burned CD looked nothing like you would find on a normal SVCD disc with menus. Couldn't DVDit just burn everything exactly like a DVD but leave the video and audio alone. No instead it completely converted it to another format, no wonder it said it would only work on a PC .

Is there no such thing as a perfect authoring software? I'm starting to think there is no way with these programs. Is there any way to make the menus's seperately? Then just make a data CD, and stick all the files on it including the menus and Mpeg files? I don't see any other way, these programes truly su*k! . I have a few SVCD's with menus, maybe I can edit those scrips and edit the images to my liking. Problem with that, no text software can open those scripts. Any help?

[Valnar]

The almost perfecting authoring software for me is Ulead's DVD Workshop. The only thing it needs is the ability to encode AC3 for audio. But that's no big deal.

Robert

[KingJohn]

Roxio Video pack 5.1 8)

[Mirror_Image]

They must want a hefty licensing fee for AC3...