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Like everyone else in this forum, I was looking for a way to produce DVDs that look like they came from a professional lab. After struggling with demo editions of everything else I came to the sad conclusion that I would have to do each step separately, since no single tool provided both flexibility and dependability.
I am lucky enough to have a copy of Premier though work, so that takes care of video capture, basic editing, any transitions that need doctoring (not many for home movies), and converting to MPEG. In any case, you have to come to DVD-Lab with a completed MPEG movie file.
Now that I have my own templates set up it takes less than two hours to create menus, make a nice front menu, add background pictures to each sub-menu, and create my disk image. Another 45 minutes with RecordNow (DVD writing software that came with my Sony burner) and I have a DVD/RW to test in the machine.
Pros:
- extremely flexible
- extremely fast
- templates easy to set up and use
- very low cost
- indicates size of completed DVD image while working
- doesn't recompile my MPEG files
Cons:
- no capture, editing, or MPEG generation
(not really a con)
- DVD writing doesn't seem to work with my system
Recommended? Only if you have systems in place to do all the other activities involved with authoring. If you do, DVD-Lab is a peach, otherwise it could be far too limiting. It helps to be a propellerhead, or to have a forum like this to scour in case you get lost.
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