What authoring program do you use?

[Pratticus]

I'm curious as to which authoring program everyone in here uses. Please submit your vote and let us know the pros/cons/compatibility/ease of use/etc. you have experienced with it.

I have personally used DVD Maestro almost exclusively. It has a very friendly user interface, is intuitive and compiles DVDs that have yet to fail in anything I put them in. Functionality is a bit limited.

[TRILIGHT]

FYI... Adobe Premier is a non-linear video editor. It is not DVD authoring software. As for some of the others being valid or not, I'm unsure because I've never used them.

[Doggiedaddy]

Hi All,
Again, seems I’m always on the outside looking in. I have been mostly using DVD Complete lately. I have other software re: Spruce and DVDit but since I seem to spend most of my time testing the quickly changing world of DVD software [DVD2one and Instant Copy lately] I do not do as many fully authored B/U as before. Like I said when the urge moves me I am using Dazzle DVD Complete, quick, fairly easily customized and cheap, did I mention cheap, you can't beat that combination.

Dd
http://www.dvd9to5.com

[TRILIGHT]

How can you be on the outside looking in when you're running "dvd9to5.com"?? No offense but, in point of fact, what you're doing is not even a full DVD9 to DVD5 backup. I think it's rather misleading. Especially when you say "perfect DVD back ups" when the process you are promoting is not...content, quality, or otherwise.

[auenf]

well, if only the forum software would let me make multiple selections...

i chose maestro, just so it can get closer to scenarist, and annoy all the scenarist lovers :P

now, this is what i use:

Spruce DVDVirtuoso
Spruce DVDMaestro
Sonic ReelDVD (been playing around with this lately, and is quite powerful, but compiles wierdly).

i got a copy of MyDVD with my burner that i refuse to use tho ;)

oh, btw, its Adobe Premiere, and it doesnt do any authoring, iirc, a sonic app is bundled with 6.5 for DVD authoring ;)

Enf...

[TRILIGHT]

In all fairness to Maestro users, I do THANKFULLY use Maestro for authoring my TiVo extractions. Fortunately, it is dumb enough not to care about the header changing I do to the vid clips. Without this inheirent flaw, I am not sure how I would go about putting my TiVo extractions on DVDR! Thanks Maestro! hehe :D Anyway, considering I use Scenarist for everything other than that, it's about a 70/30 Scenarist/Maestro split for me.

[Doggiedaddy]

TRILIGHT,
I was just checking back on your poll and noticed your post.

Well it is nice to see you at least visited my site. I enjoy hearing all points of view; positive and well.... you get the Idea. I apologize you did not find any of the information posted on my site useful. I do not propose to make full 1:1 back-ups. I just try to help people very new to the process get started. It appears the 1:1 back up capabilities for the novice are close on the horizon now and this information will be mostly irrelevant.
My reasoning behind my site was I was very frustrated when I began to back up my DVD collection. There was very little useable information out there that would allow you to at least complete a project start to finish. I was disappointed by guides that would get you half way through a project and then you would find out a piece of software either cost thousands of dollars, or just as bad, no longer available.
I began this small attempt to help very new individuals make at least a working back up of their DVD collections and have a little fun doing so. The world is not a one size fits all and again I have no intentions to mislead anyone, I am only attempting to help in a small way, my way as stated on my site.

Respectfully,

Dd
“Strength and Honor”
Good Luck

http://www.dvd9to5.com

PS: I tried to visit you site and the link did not seem to operate correctly?

[TRILIGHT]

Originally posted by Doggiedaddy
PS: I tried to visit you site and the link did not seem to operate correctly?

Sorry. Didn't mean to be an ass. It's just that a lot of us spend time on IRC and here on the forum trying to help people understand what it takes to make a true DVD-9 to DVD-5 backup and it is time consuming to "de-program" them from all the misunderstandings they have about the process. Pulling a movie from a DVD-9 disc and making your own menu for it is not really what I myself or others would call a "DVD-9 to DVD-5" process. That's why I interpreted your site the way I did.

As for the link, I do not know what happened. I looked and somehow a change on the forum was causing it not to read the bold tag correctly. I've re-saved it and it now appears to be working again.

[Pratticus]

/nudge