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I've been using TDA since June 2003 in parallel with DVDLab (ver 1.1 to 1.3) and am impressed with the overall ease of use, and final product being playable.
Many complaints/wishes for this product are the same that Oscar was working on from DVDLab ver 1.1 on.
The features that impress me with TDA are these:
1. Ability to import from DVD-RAM media
2. Stability during use
3. Motion thumbnails (not available on DMF or others)
4. Ability to retain AC3 encoding
5. Burn DVD compliant discs
6. Excellent final quality - what you put in you get out!
Less than impressed:
1. Basic menus - but still better than what my E20 does
2. No available transitions
I still am glad that I purchased this product. To arrive at this conclusion, I spent several dollars trying to locate products that would work without fuss (crashing, complaining, slow) with DVD-RAM vro files recorded on my E20. Even though I keep getting hammered on this - here they are:
Sonic MyDVD SE wouldn't work with AC3
Ulead DVD Movie Factory (ver. 1.0, 2.0) crashed at the worst moments, had pretty much the same limitations in menu editing (nicer collection of templates), and wouldn't work with AC3 files (my vro files apparently were large enough that DVDMF wanted to re-encode everything) AND their customer support is NONEXISTENT. I suppose that if you're a reseller that's not an issue, but try waiting for 2 weeks for an insufficient email response (if you get one) when you're putting a friend's wedding video on DVD for them - and they want it....bad.
Ulead DVD Workshop was pretty much a more advanced version of DVDMF - and without the AC3 encoding package had the same problems with my vro files.
I know I'll get slammed on this post - but I'm not throwing good money after bad with Ulead to buy the latest version, when the ones sitting on my shelf never worked as promised.
NeoDVD Plus 4.0 Nice little program, didn't like file sizes larger than 1GB (even on W2K), and when the files were divided - or using the vob's directly) encoded a "pause" between clips (very annoying). MedioStream assured me this was normal. TDA (or DVDLab) doesn't leave these pauses that I've seen. Once again, menus were limited.
If you want nice menus: Go for DVDLab - I guess Oscar's experience with other programs helped us all in this regard. The more I use TDA, the more I like it.
Wish List:
1. Scene detection (automatic chapter insertion like DVDLab)
2. Real Editable Menus!!!
3. Transitions
Have fun with this great program, I am!
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