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Just created my first DVD using Studio 9 Plus. Everything went absolutely smoothly.
I captured from an analog camcorder using Pinnacle's Studio AV/DV capture card. No synch problems, no lost frames, no perceptible difference between original Hi8 source and capture.
Editing/Authoring were pretty simple. I made a single 4-screen menu with links to 14 chapters total. I also added a couple of transitions and removed a couple of scenes from the captured video. These aren't exactly big editing operations, and fortunately they were simple to do in the software.
Based on the problems reported by so many people on this forum, I chose to create a disc image and then write that to DVD using stand-alone burning software. The video rendering took a LONG time, 7 hours on my P4-1.5GHz. That was for 90 minutes of content at 80% quality. The rest of the disc image creation took another 45 minutes.
Overall I am really pleased with the results. I didn't run into a single snag, and the final DVD looks as good as the original home movie, at least to my eyes. I wasn't sure I'd get 90 minutes of video on a single-layer DVD, but I actually had room to spare. My only complaint is how long it took to render, but since I have no experience with other rendering software I don't know if that's typical. I'm really hoping the rendering speed improves significantly when I get a new computer.
I spent $100 on Studio 9 AV/DV (it's the Studio Plus software plus the capture card). Since I didn't run into any of the problems others have reported, I think it was well worth the price.
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