Is Nerovision express 2 a good software?

[sashanos]

I have been having Nerovision for sometime and beside being slow is also not reliable. Is there any other software i can buy which isn`t going to require university degree to burn and author DVD? Nerovision express 2 is sure easy to use but far too many problems.
any feed back ?

[theReal]

I've been using Nero Recode 2 for a few months now and I like it very much. I compared it to DVDShrink 3.17 with the Friends Season 8 DVDs (PAL, R2) and liked the output a little better. Not much difference really, but a little.

It never crashed and it never did anything unexpected, always worked fine for me.
However I always leave out all the extras and make a new DVD with only the main movie so I can't say how well it compresses menus.

Also I didn't notice any speed differences to DVDShrink (with only best possible quality in both cases).

[alexM]

I had bought the full version of Nero, including VisionExpress2 because I have a stand-alone DVD-recorder that complies to the VR-format, just as VisionExpress also claims. In fact it detects the DVDs written by the stand-alone, reads them, allows me to modify menus and such, recodes (it always recodes, even if you have 100% compatible VOBs !!!), re-writes the disc and - says it has failed. Changing DVD-rewriter or DVD-brand makes no difference. When you build a DVD from scratch sometimes it completes the writing process without aborting but then (I am the suspicious kind) when you try to read the disc with decrypter you get strange messages and not all files can be read. Sometimes those that can't be read are BUP files and you are lucky.
My advice: Nero Burning is fine but VisionExpress is full of bugs.

[theReal]

Well, maybe it's not a good DVD authoring program (if you want to modify or make menus). I can't tell because I'm using Adobe Encore DVD to make my own DVDs (home-video).

What's the VR format? Some kind of standalone recorder standard?

All I can say is that Recode does a good job for transcoding and stripping menus and extras from DVD-9

[alexM]

The idea behind DVD-VR is very interesting, you might want to have a look at this site:

http://www.burnworld.com/dvd/primer/dvdvr.htm

Unfortunately up to now I have found some discussions in other forums about problems with VisionExpress but none with solutions. Seems that those people who succeeded in making it work are the silent type.

[TheSeeker]

DVDShrink may be your best bet. Very simplistic authoring capabilities however. No menu editing or anything like that. Maybe a DVDRemake/DVDShrink Combo would be your best bet. But if you need an actual authoring program i know that Maestro is pretty easy to pick up on.