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I purchased this not too long ago after trying it out, but I only recently started getting into it a lot more.
I'd been fighting with TMPEnc Plus for doing downconversions from ATSC to DVD. Somehow, despite using most of the tricks out there to tweak the output, it still didn't look as good as I'd hoped. Now, with Express, I finally have a way to preserve most if not all of the original HD goodness without tweaking things.
My first project with Express was this week's episode of "24," and I have to say that if it looks as good on an actual TV as it does on my computer monitor, I'll be uninstalling 2.5 Plus very soon.
For me the lack of 5.1 AC3 handling is not an issue, since I demux and render the unedited MPEG-2 stream first, then mux it with the corrected audio, then editing in DVD Author (unless I need titles and transitions; then I take it into MediaStudio Pro 7.5). It would be nice to have 5.1 support so that I could do cuts-only editing with audio for commercials, but I have a workaround for that too (edit the original TS in FusionHDTV's cut mode and fine-tune in DVD Editor or MSP 7.5). |
