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  1. 14th Jun 2002 19:57 #1
    mboynton
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    Is there a good authoring program that supports motion menus and files of type m2v and ac3. Thanks in advance
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  2. 14th Jun 2002 21:14 #2
    burned_once
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    I use DVDit! LE 2.5. It appears to allow you to drag mpg's, m2v's, and/or wav's to the menus. It definitely allows m2v's as movies. It recognizes chapter points in the movies, but doesn't create new ones for you.

    The only thing it doesn't handle is AC3's. It insists on either MPEG-1/2 layer II (mp2) or PCM (wav) for audio, and transcodes the former to 48kHz PCM stereo which takes up valuable space on the disk.

    I think the SE or PE versions might do ac3, but they are something like US $500 and $1000 respectively, so I'll stick with LE (which I got free with my DVD-RW drive plus a 19-hour download to upgrade 2.4 to 2.5).

    Good luck -- I hope to hear about more authoring s/w as other posters reply.
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  3. 26th Jun 2002 23:58 #3
    marsmayhem
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    DVD Workshop does motion menus/motion buttons. No AC3, but an update is coming in July sometime to allow it. Not sure about m2v files.
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