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One thing - it does not recognize the Flip videos format, you have to convert the videos first before burning to a DVD. For someone who knows little about computers and burning DVDs, this software has worked great.
Don't know if it matters, but my computer is Windows Vista, no problem installing, took about 45 minutes, then takes between 30-90 minutes to burn a DVD. Had to change the ratio from 4:3 to 16:9 to make it play full screen on my tv.
I was looking for software to burn my videos taken with my Flip video recorder to DVDs playable on a regular DVD player. The software was easy to understand, has many different title menu backgrounds to choose from.
Great product. This software has worked fine for me.
I just downloaded Any Video Convertor for free and the converted videos worked fine.
The current version, as of February 2010, is Corel VideoStudio Pro X3. This software is out of date.
I have been trying to make dvds of an old series called werewolf from fox that aired back in the '80s. I have ordered Movieplus x3 since the reviews of it claim it is much easier to use. I have been using this software on and off for a couple of years. Just click the 5.1 button and you're there. It is very user friendly. The end result is very nice if you are working with decent quality source video. The manual doesn't cover it, it only explains how to do a single title, the title of the video.
Using nero 7 I created chapter menus and titles in under ten minutes. It should not be that difficult to do since this is an integral part of making any video.
It's easy to enhance said videos although you might need to read the manual occasionally to follow the steps. But even after searching the web and watching the tutorials nothing shows how to make chapter titles in the menu so that you can access individual episodes without just fast forwarding through the whole thing.
Things that I like about it are: It's easy to apply dolby 5.1 audio to your video. No problem dragging them into the timeline and burning them to disc with 5.1 surround.
Because honestly, to me, if I can't create chapter titles that I can access on the main menu then it's pretty much useless software. It's easy to capture or import video from camera or dvd.
What I hate: If there is a way to create chapter titles in the main menu so that you can access them in the resulting dvd I haven't found it yet.
I've had DVD menues frequently fail to save correctly, meaning I had to go back and reset everything. I was able to do what I needed to with this program, but it sure didn't make things easy. On the whole, I wouldn't recommend this product or this company's software. And its fairly prone to crashing to desktop, and the recovery file is usually helplessly corrupted. The sound files in imported video would frequently be misaligned with the picture. You can correct it by splitting the audio and manually adjusting it, but its not exactly fast.
The Movie Maker software works very well for making DVD's from the clips you produce. After you do this you can edit the commercials out etc. This software just takes some trial and error to get used to, I think it does a good job for the price. I got this program to extract Movies and TV shows from DVD disc's produced with a DVR and it works very well for this, but the user's manual doesn't do a very good job of explaining how. If you want to do this, you first have to copy the *.VOB file(s) from the DVD disc and rename it with a *.MPG file type extension.
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