Posted by Andy on 10/30/05 03:47

I find Womble MPEG Video Wizard very good.
Andy

"billh" <NoMail@Post2Newsgroup.Pls> wrote in message
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> "John" <road@runner.com> wrote in message
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>> Hi. I am just wondering if anyone knows of any new DVD Authoring
>> programs that I could try?
>>
>> So far I have tried the following:
>>
>> Nero 6 (Nero Vision Express)
>> Good but very slow (re-encodes everything unnecessarily)
>>
>> TMPGEnc DVD
>> Couldn't get this to work very well on my system. Lots of conflicts.
>> Was a fast program to use but limited features.
>>
>> DVD Lab
>> Find it difficult to edit the video with this program unlike with Nero
>> and TMPGEnc DVD. If I have video of a Television program and want to
>> delete the beginning, end and ad breaks, it is very difficult if not
>> impossible to do.
>>
>> There are a few others I have tried but I forgot what they were. If
>> anyone can suggest any other programs and new ones on the market I
>> haven't yet tried I'd appreciate it. I may have to make do with
>> <sigh>Nero</sigh> re-encoding everything for several hours until I
>> find that long awaited decent authoring program.
>>
>> Cheers
>>
>> John
>>
>>
>
> I am not a serious DVD creator but I bought a capture card for my PC to
> record TV programs. I thought it was a good way to get rid of the VCR
> without buying a standalone DVD recorder. I don't think it was the
> brightest idea I ever had but that's what I did.
>
> For editing TV programs and removing commercials VideoReDo Plus is
> fantastic.
>
> I had a copy of Ulead Movie Factory 3 (SE?) that came with some hardware.
> Found it easy to use to make a simple DVD. If you want to really jazz up
> your DVDs you would probably want something better. Ulead would edit the
> video to cut a commercial but I found getting the cut in right place to be
> tedious compared to VideoReDo.
>
> I now have a DVD player that understands fast-forwarding through mpeg2
> files so now I just burn my capture onto a DVDRW and don't bother editing
> commercials or making a DVD unless I have captured something like a movie
> or documentary I want to keep.
>
> Billh
>

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