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The Good - Has lots of features. Customizable menu layouts, backgrounds, music, buttons, headers and footers. Chapter button images can be selected from any part of the chapter. (nice touch!)
The Bad - Authoring steps are a bit obtuse, especially on VCDs. No provision for producing an image of the desired output VCD on the hard drive, so if anything bad happens you have to start over again. Menu and structure options are saved, but chances are NeroVision Express 2 will crash if you try to use them again. Even after rebooting, the d*mned program will always retranscode the source video files, even if they were orginally produced by its movie creation section. This bites.
The Ugly - Too bad I can't burn a DVD or VCD without tossing errors and wasting my time. Hours and hours lost to crashes during the transcoding steps (DVD and VCD), only to have to repeat the entire process from scratch. Error messages are vague and don't give a clue to the cause, also the log entries don't point to anything. The only way I've been able to burn a usable DVD is to write the image to hard drive then use Nero to burn a UDF DVD Video to my DVD+R media. I've neven gotten a working VCD since the program hard crashes.
If later versions eliminate the crashes, I'd give them an overall score of 8, but not on this latest version. |
