Vegas 6 vs Adobe DVD Authoring questions

[scolew]

I would certainly appreciate any help and advise you could give me. I am starting a small business doing DVD authoring. My plan is to do this from mostly photos that I get from clients and make DVD's from them with all the special effects and bells and whistles. I do have a couple of questions if you don't mind.

1. I am trying out Adobe Premiere Pro and Encore along with Vegas 6 and DVD Architect. Which has more features and easier to use?

2. Does the import Photoshop CS files for menus work good with Vegas 6? Just want to make sure that I would not have any trouble importing the .psd files into Vegas.

3. How do you animate with photos? For example, if you have a graphic of a mirror flowing across the screen and a photo of someone comes in from the other side and lands in the inside of the mirror.

4. In either Adobe or Vegas is there a way to automatically set the duration of the frames to fit the audio selections.

Thanks so much to all!!!!!

[guns1inger]

Questions 3 and 4 were asked in a seperate post, and I have responded there. As to questions 1 and 2

1. Both are powerful, and have much the same features out of the box. Both work in different ways, so you really need to try them out and see which suits your way of working. I prefer Vegas for editing and audio, but I use After Effects for effects work and compositing. Premiere has a bigger range of commercial plugins available to it. Encore has a reputation as being buggy for some users.

2. I can't really speak to it as I use after effects for anything that requires a lot of compositing, and DVD Lab Pro for menus. DLP does handle PSD files very well.

You can get fully function demos for both of these. Try them and see what works for you.

[BJ_M]

vegas imports photoshop files fine


encore has better intergration with photoshop though ..

DVDA 3 has more authoring features and is rock solid stable .

[scolew]

So.....if I have layered files, they will import into DVDA3 for Menus or Vegas for slideshow timeline? Thanks!!!!

[BJ_M]

hmm you should read the manual on DVDA maybe first ,

you create templates in DVDA using XML and you can find a document of how to create themes using XML at http://download.sonypictures.com/current/extras/dvdarchitect2_themespec.pdf I recommend you start by modifying an existing theme. Look in the section "Creating Custom Themes" in the DVDA-3 manual.



as for importing into vegas - yes sure, no problem