DVDLab is an Authoring application that takes mpeg streams, as well as AC3, MP2 and LPCM audio. It then authors these into the VIDEO_TS folder in the form of .vobs etc., to burn.
It also has a built in aspi burning program.
It does not encode video, nor does it convert .mov to .mpg. It does not capture from VHS or cam.
The "liteweight" edition does almost everything the pro version does, under one VTS, adhering to the DVD standard (pretty much) with a few exceptions.
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Cheers, Jim
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Originally Posted by patrickmerrill
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Originally Posted by lordsmurf
Anyway, DVDLab is the one I settled on from teh ones I tested. It had the best interface and the best support from the company.
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For the record, you can do motion menus with DVDAuthorGUI, but you will need to create the menus in another program. However if you know how to use Avisynth, DVDAuthorGUI will GENERATE a basic motion menu for you and you can go in and customize it. I'm not certain if it will do switched menus (DVDAuthor Can but not sure about GUI) but it will do motion menus just fine.
I also think GUI For DVDAuthor supports motion menus but am not 100% Certain.
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DVDLab is an authoring application. It does not solve sync issues, nor does it accept .mov, .avi or any other compressed format, except mpeg-1 and mpeg-2.
You want to edit VHS. You want chapters and menus. You don't want to split movies into elementary streams, you want it to accept .mov files directly, yet you want to do all of this for less than $100.
As I suggested above, get DVDAuthorgui. It's free.
Read some guides on converting .mov to .mpg.
Good luck finding all the tools you need, to do a proper job, for less than $100.Cheers, Jim
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I use both DLP and DWS2.
One major authoring feature in DLP is the ability to use one Title, and either play a certain chapter and return to a menu, or jump to a certain chapter, and continue playing the title until the end. You can't do this with DWS2 (Full or Express). You would need to use 2 versions of your assets -- a complete long Title, and then separate title clips for the chapters (if you wanted to play a chapter and return to a menu).
If you cut your video up into titles, then the playback is not seamless between the smaller title clips.
Not to mention DLP allows for more advanced Playlists (chapters out of sequence, titles, etc...). And DLP also allows for "Case" logic, and branching based on SPRM and GPRM's...
Yes, DLP has a higher learning curve, but it's worth it in that it shows you what can be done...
I do like DWS's menu templates, and its ability to preview video and audio (DLP doesn't playback the audio during previews).
They both offer Advanced features, and DWS comes with an excellent encoder.
I switch between them based on the task at hand...George -
I create some kick-a$$ motion menus with DVD Architect 2. I know most of you guys don't like/use it, but for me, I have it down pretty well.
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For the record, DWS2 can do "Switched Menus" and it can also do the "Keypad Lock" (it just cannot do them as easily as DLP can because DLP utilizes scripts to automate the manual setup process).
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Originally Posted by GeorgeW
The things that are missing in DVD Workshop is Return to menu after playing a chapter, Transition's between menu's/Titles/Chapter's if you wanted.
A few more but these would realy do it good.
BUT you can do all those things in DVD WorkShop it just takes some imagination.
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Originally Posted by reboot
It will take AC3 , Chapters have as many as you want, where you want.
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Originally Posted by patrickmerrill
I really like Adobe After Effects, and even use it for cover design and other still images (instead of Photoshop, which I don't particularly like). As for retouching and some other little things that After Effects is not very good at I use Jasc Paint Shop Pro 7. Another great program. -
I'm surprised not many people have mentioned nero vision express 3 I just downloaded an update for it yesterday (before it would never burn properly) and ever since it has worked great for me. I can add animated menus with animated buttons on top of teh menus and I can have a song playing with the menu. I have not actually watched the video yet that was encoded and burnt with nero and I'm sure it's probably not that great of quality but it doesn't matter too much to me because my tv isn't too high quality either. When I do want something with better qaulity tho I tend to use mainconcept (until the audio failed to work) for converting to a dvd compliant file. Then add it into dvd lab and create my menus etc. I'm still not too keen on the 300mb per 10 second of menu animation tho, my hard drive is only 40gigs and cannot take that kind of abuse (is there anyway to lower the qaulity of that?
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@ canadateck. I didn't say it was a review
It's a blatant bashing of a sub-standard POS crippled beyond belief bloated demo version
@ Edmund Blackadder. Sure, try and find an outdated, no longer supported, piece of $5000 software!Cheers, Jim
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Originally Posted by reboot
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Sole rights to "DVD Maestro" are owned by Apple.
If you get it somewhere, it's piracy.
Although I agree, it's a GREAT program, and a total shame that it's no longer around.Cheers, Jim
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Since the original poster of this thread has "outgrown" Sonic's MyDVD, I'm surprised no one has suggested Sonic's Dvdit. I now use DVDit exclusively for my authoring. It is extremely simple to use, but has great features and is $100 cheaper than DVD Workshop.
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Originally Posted by reboot
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Originally Posted by jbenj01
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Originally Posted by Edmund Blackadder
Your After Effects, Procoder, Maestro method ... very solid.
Not easy to learn, not cheap, not a quick operation. But very nice.
I use Premiere, Mainconcept, Ulead DVDWS2 method.
Very similar, but a bit easier, and slightly cheaper.
Both methods require knowledge and patience.Want my help? Ask here! (not via PM!)
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One thing I can't figure out about meastro is why I cannot import any videos whatsoever even after I've converted to a dvd compliant video using mainconcept and for that reason and that reason *alone* I use DVD-lab and somtimes nero vision express3 (when I'm in a rush). and from what I can see (agreeing with jbenj01) the interface of dvd meastro is very similar with dvd-lab. I just wish I could find out how well mastro worked.
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Thanks for the help, still trying to get mainconcept to work properly again.
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boomer8,
Not sure with Mainconcept encoder, but with CCE, I used to end up with video with a 23.976fps and had to run Pulldown on it to add 29.976fps flags in order for Maestro to accept (from memory and assuming you're in NTSC land). Just a thought..
As to Maestro's supremacy. let's chalk it up to one of life's "enigmas" since no one no one seems to want to answer.. -
... They killed DVD Maestro and created a watered down version of it, DVD Studio Pro, that only works on Mac.
Hey, I do agree that Maestro is la creme, but its flying flags position is more situational than earned now. If you are building a commercial video studio, Maestro is out of question because the only available copies are illegal.
So the proposed workflow AfterEffect -> Procoder -> Maestro is very professional and two thumbs up, except there is no Maestro. What Maestro?
Oh and if you buy MAC and the newest DVD Studio PRO, you will still pay about 10 times less than for original DVD Maestro.
Just my opinion anyway. (I don't use MAC at all so don't take this as PC vs. MAC bashing) -
Originally Posted by Mr. Budwar
Just look, Adobe bought Cool Edit Pro, which is probably the greatest audio editor ever made. They didn't kill it, they keep it going as Audition, and so all the potential Cool Edit Pro customers can still get an updated version which pretty much is still the same Cool Edit Pro. Apple decided not to do that with Maestro... Murderers!
Originally Posted by Mr. Budwar
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