Here is what people have said about each product.  Please note that I have removed several entries which were clearly duplicates from the same individual. 

Name:

mary-ah@pacbell.net

Software_1_Program:

Adobe Premier

Software_1_Score:

Excellent

Software_2_Program:

Scenalyzer

Software_2_Score:

Excellent

Software_3_Program:

 

Software_3_Score:

<Select>

Software_1_Comments

Captures OK from Dazzle Hollywood DV Bridge, but I prefer Scenalyzer's filenaming function; Best for editing; version 6.5 includes MainConcept MPEG-2 encoder. Very stable, tons of info on web.

Software_2_Comments

Excellent DV/AVI captures from Dazzle Hollywood DV Bridge; If splitting at commercials, sequential numbers automatically added to base filename.

Software_3_Comments

Site_And_Overall_DVD_Authoring_Comments

Just got into this area since 12/30/2002 purchase of Sony DRU500A DVD burner. Very nice to see comparisons on your site of the many software packages available for a multitude of purposes. Good job! Too bad there isn't one perfect package that can do it all.

Name:

mary-ah@pacbell.net

Software_1_Program:

ULead DVD Movie Factory

Software_1_Score:

Excellent

Software_2_Program:

TMPGEnc

Software_2_Score:

Good

Software_3_Program:

 

Software_3_Score:

<Select>

Software_1_Comments

Does everything I need at the moment: simple menus, flexible chapter points, does not re-encode DVD-compliant MPG2 files, allows custom backgrounds and audio clips over menus. Easy to use, stable.

Software_2_Comments

Couldn't import AVI files after editing in Premier. Wrong settings?

Software_3_Comments

Site_And_Overall_DVD_Authoring_Comments

I downloaded and tried several DVD authoring program demos in early January. Some were too simplistic and limited (e.g. Sonic MyDVD that came with Sony DVD burner) I read excellent reviews of DVD Complete, but to my disappointment the downloadable demo was limited to 5-minute clips, which made it impossible to test with my current project -- to put 2 45-min TV episodes on a DVD. So I guess I'm sticking with Ulead DVD Movie Factory for now.

Name:

Mike Eve

Software_1_Program:

Pinnacle Studio 8

Software_1_Score:

Good

Software_2_Program:

<Select One>

Software_2_Score:

<Select>

Software_3_Program:

Ulead Video Studio 6

Software_3_Score:

Fair

Software_1_Comments

My "Good" rating is relative here. Capture worked for me with my 17 minute 8mm tape. Automatic scene detection was cool and editing very easy. Menus, transitions, were easy to do. However, something is wrong with the burn to DVD process. None of my PC-based DVD players recognize the DVD. Also, the program crashes at least once an hour. If the bugs were fixed, I would be quite happy with this program and would give it an excellent.

Software_2_Comments

Software_3_Comments

The capture from 8 mm tape worked, but I found editing very awkward -- make that unusable. Never got far enough to test the burn feature. However, the program never crashed on me!

Site_And_Overall_DVD_Authoring_Comments

This site looks good. I will be coming back here to find out what others are saying. I am new to DVD authoring. Trying to beat the clock and save some of my family VHS recordings.

Name:

microkid

Software_1_Program:

Pinnacle Studio 8

Software_1_Score:

Fair

Software_2_Program:

Dazzle DVD Complete

Software_2_Score:

Perfect!

Software_3_Program:

TMPGenc

Software_3_Score:

Perfect!

Software_1_Comments

Pro: Great editor. Con: synch problems, no chapters without a menu, average mpeg2 encoder.

Software_2_Comments

Everything what you need, always works!

Software_3_Comments

Superb MPG encoder, although a little slow.

Site_And_Overall_DVD_Authoring_Comments

I'm an experienced "DVD creator", transferring many VHS tapes, TV broadcasts and DV camcorder holiday tapes to DVD. Have tried many tools. Current favo's : Pinnacle Studio 8 to capture and edit, TMPGenc or CCE to encode and Dazzle DVD Complete to author. TIP: to create a 16:9 DVD, just create the video_ts directory, and use IFOedit to edit the ifo's and set it to 16:9. Works like a charm!

Name:

 

Software_1_Program:

Pinnacle Studio 8

Software_1_Score:

Crappy

Software_2_Program:

<Select One>

Software_2_Score:

<Select>

Software_3_Program:

 

Software_3_Score:

<Select>

Software_1_Comments

Should have never been released to market. Shamefully underdeveloped and untested. DVD and MPEG2 features simply DO NOT WORK!! Don't be fooled by a good experience with Studio 7. Studio 8 is a piece of trash.

Software_2_Comments

Software_3_Comments

Site_And_Overall_DVD_Authoring_Comments

Nice Site

Name:

 

Software_1_Program:

Dazzle DVD Complete

Software_1_Score:

Excellent

Software_1_Problems:

 

Software_2_Program:

<Select One>

Software_2_Score:

<Select>

Software_2_Problems:

 

Software_3_Program:

 

Software_3_Score:

<Select>

Software_3_Problems:

 

Software_1_Comments

Works great for me! I love it. I have not seen any degradation in encode quality like you mention, although I have not used TPMGenc. The reason I think it encodes perfectly is that I can see no difference between my source video (usually Digital 8) and the encoded result. Everything else works fine. There is one major thing I do not like though, if you forget something before you edit your menus and then want to add it, everything has to be regenerated and you lose your editing work. Overall, great product.

Software_2_Comments

Software_3_Comments

Site_And_Overall_DVD_Authoring_Comments

Need a little formatting, but this could be a great resource if it is kept constructive and not allwoed to morph into just a complaint board.

Name:

 

Software_1_Program:

<Select One>

Software_1_Score:

<Select>

Software_1_Problems:

 

Software_2_Program:

Pinnacle Studio 8

Software_2_Score:

Fair

Software_2_Problems:

Program Crashes, Program Hangs, Render Broken

Software_3_Program:

 

Software_3_Score:

<Select>

Software_3_Problems:

 

Software_1_Comments

Software_2_Comments

Hard to work with because of all the problems.

Software_3_Comments

Site_And_Overall_DVD_Authoring_Comments

Name:

monkey143

Software_1_Program:

Magix Video Deluxe

Software_1_Score:

Excellent

Software_1_Problems:

Capture Audio OOS

Software_2_Program:

Pinnacle Expression

Software_2_Score:

Poor

Software_2_Problems:

Encoding Quality Poor, Import Media Broken, Burn2DVD Broken

Software_3_Program:

Sonic's MyDVD

Software_3_Score:

Good

Software_3_Problems:

 

Software_1_Comments

This product works very well for me, start to finish. I have suffered very few minor glitches and usually my audio is IN synch but whenever I do have a problem, that's usually it. I highly recommend this.

Software_2_Comments

For the money, it's simple but extremely inflexible and the quality is poor. I got rid of mine.

Software_3_Comments

Can't edit as extensively as Magix Video Deluxe but the encoding is better than Expression. I recommend it for someone who wants simple software.

Site_And_Overall_DVD_Authoring_Comments

Pretty cool site. I love DVD authoring! Magix is BY FAR my favorite, glitches and all - one software does it all, and does it all well most of the time.

Name:

Paul

Software_1_Program:

Pinnacle Studio 8

Software_1_Score:

Fair

Software_1_Problems:

Program Crashes, Program Hangs

Software_2_Program:

Sonic MyDVD

Software_2_Score:

Fair

Software_2_Problems:

 

Software_3_Program:

DVD Workshop

Software_3_Score:

Good

Software_3_Problems:

Program Crashes

Software_1_Comments

I use it to capture to avi, cut and transitions and then use DVD Workshop or Moviefactory to burn to DVD

Software_2_Comments

Poor menu making

Software_3_Comments

Not as many crashes as Studio 8 but if I bring in an AVI file I can usually render to DVD without many problems.

Site_And_Overall_DVD_Authoring_Comments

I hope people will just be honest about their problems. The type of system you have makes a big difference as well as the media.

Name:

dand9959

Software_1_Program:

Dazzle DVD Complete

Software_1_Score:

Good

Software_1_Problems:

 

Software_2_Program:

Pinnacle Studio 8

Software_2_Score:

Poor

Software_2_Problems:

Capture Audio OOS, Render Audio OOS, Program Crashes, Program Hangs, Capture Broken, Render Broken, Burn2DVD Broken

Software_3_Program:

 

Software_3_Score:

<Select>

Software_3_Problems:

 

Software_1_Comments

Nice menu editing capability. Stable product. Limited to no editing functionality.

Software_2_Comments

Great feature list, very intuitive interface. Would be a joy to use if it worked.

Software_3_Comments

Site_And_Overall_DVD_Authoring_Comments

Name:

carz

Software_1_Program:

TMPGEnc

Software_1_Score:

Poor

Software_1_Problems:

Program Crashes

Software_2_Program:

<Select One>

Software_2_Score:

<Select>

Software_2_Problems:

 

Software_3_Program:

 

Software_3_Score:

<Select>

Software_3_Problems:

 

Software_1_Comments

always crashed before encoding no matter what I tried

Software_2_Comments

Software_3_Comments

Site_And_Overall_DVD_Authoring_Comments

a lot of trial and error involved, there don't seem to be any hard and fast rules applicable to every ones machine

Name:

newdogdigital@hotmail.com

Software_1_Program:

Magix Video Deluxe

Software_1_Score:

Excellent

Software_1_Problems:

 

Software_2_Program:

<Select One>

Software_2_Score:

<Select>

Software_2_Problems:

 

Software_3_Program:

Ulead Video Studio Pro v6

Software_3_Score:

Excellent

Software_3_Problems:

Program Crashes

Software_1_Comments

well, i believe a lot of software sucess depends on the users system and experience. I have 7 years experience editing video on PC and have tried them all. On my system Video Deluxe 2 is a real winner for Home video editing. Very intuative with more features than one needs to get the job done. However, DVD menu authoring is a bit weak.

Software_2_Comments

Software_3_Comments

Another great program for more experienced users. Excellent quality and plenty of features. My only problem is the program crashes on my system when trying to encode or import DV clips over 1 minute long :( Great program for streaming video.

Site_And_Overall_DVD_Authoring_Comments

Name:

Luis Castro

Software_1_Program:

Ulead DVD Workshop

T1:

 

Software_1_Score:

Excellent

Software_1_Problems:

 

Software_1_Comments

Great for authoring DVD. Very easy to use and flexible.

Site_And_Overall_DVD_Authoring_Comments

Name:

 

Software_1_Program:

Pinnacle Expression

T1:

 

Software_1_Score:

Crappy

Software_1_Problems:

Program Crashes, Program Hangs, Encoding Quality Poor, Burn2DVD Broken

Software_1_Comments

VERY bad program. Not able to burn a VCD or SVCD. Lack of flexibility. Creates semgents instead of chapter points.

Site_And_Overall_DVD_Authoring_Comments

Name:

 

Software_1_Program:

TMPGEnc

T1:

Pinnacle Studio 7

Software_1_Score:

Excellent

Software_1_Problems:

 

Software_1_Comments

Excelent encoder. Great image quality. Pinnacle Studio 7 is reliable (I've tried Studio 8, but it is very unstable). Excelent capture quality with the included DC10 plus MJPEG card.

Site_And_Overall_DVD_Authoring_Comments

Name:

Shawn

Software_1_Program:

Adobe Premier

Other_Product_Not_In_List:

 

Software_1_Score:

Excellent

Software_1_Problems:

 

Software_1_Comments

good basic editing and 6.5 works well. Much improved over 5.1. MPEG encoder is acceptable for most people.

Site_And_Overall_DVD_Authoring_Comments

mpeg encoder 1.2 adds quality, but still not hollywood.

Name:

Shawn

Software_1_Program:

Dazzle DVD Complete

Other_Product_Not_In_List:

 

Software_1_Score:

Good

Software_1_Problems:

Encoding Quality Poor -

HTTP User Agent:

Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; Q312461)

Date:

04 Feb 2003

Time:

12:46:22

Software_1_Comments

good menus if you're willing to learn the script language. Themes lacking. Encoding not as good as other solutions.

Site_And_Overall_DVD_Authoring_Comments

A good menu builder if you're willing to change the scripts that control the build process. Motion menus and thumbnails are a nice addition in this price range. 36 chapter points is not enough for long videos. I always use an external encoder.

Name:

Shawn

Software_1_Program:

TMPGEnc

Other_Product_Not_In_List:

 

Software_1_Score:

Excellent

Software_1_Problems:

 

HTTP User Agent:

Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; Q312461)

Date:

04 Feb 2003

Time:

12:47:48

Software_1_Comments

great results after you learn to use the software. Couln't ask for much more for the money.

Site_And_Overall_DVD_Authoring_Comments

great encoding after tweaking the settings. When used with AVIWrapper, can export to mpeg from premiere timeline.

Name:

Shawn

Product:

 

Other_Product_Not_In_List:

 

Score:

 

Problems:

 

HTTP User Agent:

Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; Q312461)

Date:

04 Feb 2003

Time:

12:49:11

Site_And_Overall_DVD_Authoring_Comments

good for very basic authoring. would not use it on projects any more serious thatn home movies for family.

Name:

Grayson

Product:

Adobe Premier

Other_Product_Not_In_List:

 

Score:

Perfect!

Problems:

 

HTTP User Agent:

Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.01; Windows NT)

Date:

04 Feb 2003

Time:

13:19:14

Product_Comments

Stability great... when used properly.

Site_And_Overall_DVD_Authoring_Comments

I was unaware that Adobe Premiere was capable of authoring DVDs... I thought it was simply an editor......... Also, you're misspelling the word Premiere(as Adobe uses it, at least).

Name:

Carey Robson

Product:

Dazzle DVD Complete

Other_Product_Not_In_List:

 

Score:

Excellent

Problems:

 

HTTP User Agent:

Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1)

Date:

04 Feb 2003

Time:

18:22:52

Product_Comments

version 2.06 esd works well. Previous versions had major problems.

Site_And_Overall_DVD_Authoring_Comments

Name:

David

Product:

Pinnacle Studio 8

Other_Product_Not_In_List:

 

Score:

Excellent

Problems:

Render Audio OOS, Program Hangs

HTTP User Agent:

Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1)

Date:

04 Feb 2003

Time:

18:51:24

Product_Comments

Have had many problems, but so far have worked through them...all...I think...

Site_And_Overall_DVD_Authoring_Comments

Name:

Dale C

Product:

TMPGEnc

Other_Product_Not_In_List:

 

Score:

Excellent

Problems:

 

HTTP User Agent:

Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; Q312461; YComp 5.0.0.0; .NET CLR 1.0.3705)

Date:

04 Feb 2003

Time:

19:12:49

Product_Comments

This product produces the best quality video of any encoder I've used. The bonus is that it is a mere $48! Program is stable, haven't needed to use tech support, so I can't comment on that. Watch out if you are overclocking your CPU...TMPGenc can crash because it is extremely CPU intensive.

Site_And_Overall_DVD_Authoring_Comments

Great concept...could use a little friendlier presentation, and will need to search as the data grows.

Name:

jim5055@usa.com

Product:

ULead DVD Movie Factory

Other_Product_Not_In_List:

 

Score:

Crappy

Problems:

Encoding Broken

HTTP User Agent:

Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.5; Windows NT 5.0; H010818)

Date:

04 Feb 2003

Time:

20:57:44

Product_Comments

Burning SVCD using stills and video from digital camera. Basically this program does not work for SVCD on CDROM. Limited trial works but full version breaks if exceed 15Mbyte or so data ie useless

Site_And_Overall_DVD_Authoring_Comments

Name:

 

Product:

Pinnacle Studio 8

Other_Product_Not_In_List:

 

Score:

Fair

Problems:

Capture Broken

HTTP User Agent:

Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; AT&T CSM6.0)

Date:

04 Feb 2003

Time:

21:03:57

Product_Comments

Site_And_Overall_DVD_Authoring_Comments

Name:

JayJervey

Product:

Sonic MyDVD

Other_Product_Not_In_List:

 

Score:

Fair

Problems:

Capture Broken

HTTP User Agent:

Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1)

Date:

04 Feb 2003

Time:

22:21:46

Product_Comments

Can't capture with standard WDM capture drivers Audio and video out of sync

Site_And_Overall_DVD_Authoring_Comments

Name:

JayJervey

Product:

Dazzle DVD Complete

Other_Product_Not_In_List:

 

Score:

Crappy

Problems:

Encoding Quality Poor

HTTP User Agent:

Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1)

Date:

04 Feb 2003

Time:

22:22:35

Product_Comments

Trash

Site_And_Overall_DVD_Authoring_Comments

Name:

JayJervey

Product:

ULead DVD Movie Factory

Other_Product_Not_In_List:

 

Score:

Fair

Problems:

Capture Audio OOS

HTTP User Agent:

Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1)

Date:

04 Feb 2003

Time:

22:24:16

Product_Comments

Limited authoring 48KHz audio capture is OOS

Site_And_Overall_DVD_Authoring_Comments

Name:

JayJervey

Product:

Ulead DVD Workshop

Other_Product_Not_In_List:

 

Score:

Excellent

Problems:

Render Broken

HTTP User Agent:

Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1)

Date:

04 Feb 2003

Time:

22:27:40

Product_Comments

48KHz audio capture is OOS Motion button rendering crashes randomly Otherwise this is the best tool going Find a student who will buy it for you with academic discount though

Site_And_Overall_DVD_Authoring_Comments

Name:

 

Product:

Sonic MyDVD

Other_Product_Not_In_List:

 

Score:

Good

Problems:

Render Audio OOS

HTTP User Agent:

Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.0; Q312461; YComp 5.0.0.0; .NET CLR 1.0.3705)

Date:

05 Feb 2003

Time:

06:16:38

Product_Comments

Audio is out of sync at end of long recording (in 2nd of 2 54 min chapters)

Site_And_Overall_DVD_Authoring_Comments

Great site. I am just starting to write DVD's.

Name:

 

Product:

<Select One>

Other_Product_Not_In_List:

Ahead NeroVsion

Score:

Poor

Problems:

Program Hangs

HTTP User Agent:

Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.0; Q312461; YComp 5.0.0.0; .NET CLR 1.0.3705)

Date:

05 Feb 2003

Time:

06:18:30

Product_Comments

After I paid for the MPeg encoder, this program hung when trying to write the DVD. Does seem to have potential though.

Site_And_Overall_DVD_Authoring_Comments

Name:

cphaney@bellsouth.net

Product:

Pinnacle Studio 8

Other_Product_Not_In_List:

 

Score:

Fair

Problems:

Program Hangs

HTTP User Agent:

Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; .NET CLR 1.0.3705)

Date:

05 Feb 2003

Time:

12:05:15

Product_Comments

Pinnacle tech support is totally incompetent. The only help you can get is off the user board.

Site_And_Overall_DVD_Authoring_Comments

I bought a DVD burner and started looking for capture hardware and software. I purchased the Studio Deluxe AV/DV package and the capture card crashed both of my HD's. I am not running a raid set up either. I contacted Pinnacle support twice and the only reply I received was a listing to links on how to convert MP3s etc. nothing relating to my problem. I then posted on the Pinnacle board and received a couple of board replies and several to my e-mail address. I spent several days reloading windows and reinstalling the card and my drive still continued to crash. I then spent some time on their board and found a few other instances of HD crashes. I eventually hooked the drive to an IDE controller and everything worked except the drive was then too slow for video capture. Seems the AV/DV card is incompatible with Asus boards and the onboard Promise ATA controller. There were a couple of people with Dells and HP that were getting crashed, but the Asus/Promise combo was a definite problem. I posted my findings on the board and criticized Pinnacle for not telling me and other people of the problem and they removed the post along with a few others having the same problem with Asus/Promise combination.

Name:

Mark

Product:

ULead DVD Movie Factory

Other_Product_Not_In_List:

 

Score:

Fair

Problems:

Capture Broken

HTTP User Agent:

Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.5; Windows NT 5.0)

Date:

05 Feb 2003

Time:

12:59:33

Product_Comments

Capture did not work in demo on my machine

Site_And_Overall_DVD_Authoring_Comments

Name:

 

Product:

Pinnacle Studio 8

Other_Product_Not_In_List:

 

Score:

Poor

Problems:

Capture Audio OOS, Render Audio OOS, Program Crashes, Program Hangs, Encoding Quality Poor

HTTP User Agent:

Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1)

Product_Comments

This program works ok if the project is kept small and simple. Turning off all auto features helps, but it still has lots of bugs. I like the interface, but it has a long way to go before it will work as advertised. Best for part time hobbiest, not some one looking for high quality work.

Site_And_Overall_DVD_Authoring_Comments

This site is great so long as it will help keep people from buying crapy software. I have spent hundreds of hours with this program only to decide not to continue with it. I am looking for a profesional finished product without having to beta test for the software company. I have used at least four versions of Pinnacle software and found them to be less than advertised and thier support is lacking as well.

Name:

 

Product:

Magix Video Deluxe

Other_Product_Not_In_List:

 

Score:

Excellent

Problems:

 

HTTP User Agent:

Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.0; Windows 98; DigExt)

Product_Comments

Great program. Easy to use. Poor documentation.

Site_And_Overall_DVD_Authoring_Comments

I am using Video Deluxe 2.0. Very intuitive. Documentation is poor, but what a delight it is to figure things out on your own. Good MPEG2 encoder by Ligos. Would highly recommend to beginners

Name:

 

Product:

Adobe Premiere

Other_Product_Not_In_List:

 

Score:

Poor

Problems:

Capture Audio OOS

HTTP User Agent:

Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.0)

Product_Comments

captured from DV in premiere 6.5, audio slowly drifts out of sync. when I play the capture in WMP, or almost any other editing program, the audio is fine. can't figure out the problem.....

Site_And_Overall_DVD_Authoring_Comments

Name:

 

Product:

<Select One>

Other_Product_Not_In_List:

 

Score:

<Select>

Problems:

Render Audio OOS

HTTP User Agent:

Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 4.0)

Product_Comments

Site_And_Overall_DVD_Authoring_Comments

Name:

bwgriff

Product:

ArcSoft ShowBiz

Other_Product_Not_In_List:

 

Score:

Excellent

Problems:

 

HTTP User Agent:

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.0.1) Gecko/20020823 Netscape/7.0

Product_Comments

Very nice, cheap program for editing AVIs -- filters, transitions, etc. Save work as AVI and encode and author with something else.

Site_And_Overall_DVD_Authoring_Comments

Name:

bwgriff

Product:

Ulead DVD Workshop

Other_Product_Not_In_List:

 

Score:

Excellent

Problems:

 

HTTP User Agent:

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.0.1) Gecko/20020823 Netscape/7.0

Product_Comments

Great at authoring DVDs -- menus system is strong. The MPEG2 encoder is also very strong (Mainconcept) and much faster than TMPGENC.

Site_And_Overall_DVD_Authoring_Comments

Name:

 

Product:

Sonic MyDVD

Other_Product_Not_In_List:

 

Score:

Crappy

Problems:

Capture Broken

HTTP User Agent:

Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; Q312461; YComp 5.0.0.0; .NET CLR 1.0.3705)

Product_Comments

Hangs most of the time

Site_And_Overall_DVD_Authoring_Comments

Name:

 

Product:

<Select One>

Other_Product_Not_In_List:

 

Score:

<Select>

Problems:

 

HTTP User Agent:

Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; .NET CLR 1.0.3705)

Product_Comments

Site_And_Overall_DVD_Authoring_Comments

I am still having so many problems I don't want to rate anything quite yet BUT I will say this----DELL is HORRIBLE on their support. But when I have been able to get one burned I am capturing it in Videowave Movie Creator and making an mpeg file there. I have had to work out some bugs with that but things have been going pretty good so far with that. Then I like to use Sonic MyDVD to get that "movie" I made because I like the options it gives me to use. But there seems to be a possible problem between Sonic MyDVD and DirectCD on the Dell systems. I am still working on that one. But after I removed the DirectCD, things DID start moving smoother until I had to uninstall MyDVD. When I tried to reinstall it, the program disk from Dell was corrupt and I am waiting on another one. Nobody would believe the hours I have spend in the last two weeks on one problem after another. My husband is about ready to divorce me. I've only gotten 3-4 hours per night sleep and have been at this computer the rest of the time. But I'm determined because I really do want to be able to take my home movies and burn them on DVD's. But these tech people sure aren't much help are they?

Name:

dknapp1117@cox.net

Product:

Dazzle DVD Complete

Other_Product_Not_In_List:

Dazzle 150 USB

Score:

Poor

Problems:

Capture Broken

HTTP User Agent:

Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; Q312461; YComp 5.0.0.0)

Product_Comments

Tech support took a month to reply. USB had no video, but would capture audio. Took it back and bought ATI AIW 9700 with Studio 8.

Site_And_Overall_DVD_Authoring_Comments

Good idea for site. Am astounded at the amount of problems I have read about for all products though. Finally got Studio 8 to capture correctly by using a second drive with nothing on it but captured files.

Name:

 

Product:

Dazzle DVD Complete

Other_Product_Not_In_List:

 

Score:

Crappy

Problems:

Program Crashes, Program Hangs

HTTP User Agent:

Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1)

Product_Comments

Site_And_Overall_DVD_Authoring_Comments

Name:

Wayne

Product:

Dazzle DVD Complete

Other_Product_Not_In_List:

DV-Editor Deluxe

Score:

Crappy

Problems:

Program Crashes

HTTP User Agent:

Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1)

Product_Comments

Too many wasted hours to count. Help menu even crashes

Site_And_Overall_DVD_Authoring_Comments

Name:

volodia@tiscali.co.uk

Product:

Ulead DVD Workshop

Other_Product_Not_In_List:

 

Score:

Crappy

Problems:

Render Broken

HTTP User Agent:

Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1)

Product_Comments

Site_And_Overall_DVD_Authoring_Comments

Name:

Dan Burns, dmwright@hotmail.com

Product:

Pinnacle Studio 8

Other_Product_Not_In_List:

 

Score:

Poor

Problems:

Program Crashes, Program Hangs, Render Broken

HTTP User Agent:

Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1)

Product_Comments

Rendering and compile hangs.

Site_And_Overall_DVD_Authoring_Comments

Studio 7 with Ulead MF 1.0 works well. Studio 8 has far to many bugs.

Name:

 

Product:

Pinnacle Studio 8

Other_Product_Not_In_List:

 

Score:

Excellent

Problems:

 

HTTP User Agent:

Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows 98)

Product_Comments

Site_And_Overall_DVD_Authoring_Comments

Name:

 

Product:

Pinnacle Studio 8

Other_Product_Not_In_List:

 

Score:

Excellent

Problems:

Capture Audio OOS

HTTP User Agent:

Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows 98)

Product_Comments

Site_And_Overall_DVD_Authoring_Comments

Name:

 

Product:

Sonic MyDVD

Other_Product_Not_In_List:

 

Score:

Poor

Problems:

Program Crashes, Render Broken, Burn2DVD Broken

HTTP User Agent:

Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.5; Windows NT 4.0)

Product_Comments

Site_And_Overall_DVD_Authoring_Comments

Name:

Slackerjj

Product:

<Select One>

Other_Product_Not_In_List:

Sonic Foundry DVD Architect

Score:

Perfect!

Problems:

 

HTTP User Agent:

Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.0; .NET CLR 1.0.3705)

Product_Comments

Quick DVD authoring and rock solid stable.

Site_And_Overall_DVD_Authoring_Comments

Name:

ESR

Product:

Magix Video Deluxe

Other_Product_Not_In_List:

 

Score:

Fair

Problems:

Program Crashes

HTTP User Agent:

Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; .NET CLR 1.0.3705)

Product_Comments

I can't capture with my capture card. can't export mpeg files and its still pretty buggy & unstable. New patch 2.06 was a help tho and program has lots of features.

Site_And_Overall_DVD_Authoring_Comments

Name:

wdormann

Product:

Pinnacle Studio 8

Other_Product_Not_In_List:

 

Score:

Good

Problems:

Capture Audio OOS, Program Crashes

HTTP User Agent:

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.3b) Gecko/20030210

Product_Comments

The Studio Deluxe (AVDV) card has audio sync issues with Studio software. Forced to use Scenalyzer Live

Site_And_Overall_DVD_Authoring_Comments

Name:

wdormann

Product:

Scenalyzer

Other_Product_Not_In_List:

 

Score:

Perfect!

Problems:

 

HTTP User Agent:

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.3b) Gecko/20030210

Product_Comments

Works like a charm!

Site_And_Overall_DVD_Authoring_Comments

Name:

wdormann

Product:

TMPGEnc

Other_Product_Not_In_List:

 

Score:

Perfect!

Problems:

 

HTTP User Agent:

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.3b) Gecko/20030210

Product_Comments

Excellent software!

Site_And_Overall_DVD_Authoring_Comments

Name:

rastamon

Product:

Pinnacle Studio 8

Other_Product_Not_In_List:

 

Score:

Excellent

Problems:

 

HTTP User Agent:

Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1)

Product_Comments

Site_And_Overall_DVD_Authoring_Comments

Name:

mgg@prairienet.org

Product:

<Select One>

Other_Product_Not_In_List:

Final Cut Pro

Score:

Perfect!

Problems:

 

HTTP User Agent:

Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.22; Mac_PowerPC)

Product_Comments

Beats PC software hands down, going away!

Site_And_Overall_DVD_Authoring_Comments

Name:

eric@socialservicenetwork.com

Product:

Dazzle DVD Complete

Other_Product_Not_In_List:

Dazzle DVC 100

Score:

Poor

Problems:

Program Hangs

HTTP User Agent:

Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows 98; H010818)

Product_Comments

Capturing hangs after a few seconds

Site_And_Overall_DVD_Authoring_Comments

Name:

dave@jamsoft.com

Product:

ULead DVD Movie Factory

Other_Product_Not_In_List:

Ulead DVD MovieFactory 22

Score:

Excellent

Problems:

Import Media Broken

HTTP User Agent:

Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.2.1) Gecko/20021130

Product_Comments

Real time MPEG-2 encoding from DV is surprisingly good, even on my Celeron 1300. I still use TMPGEnc most of the time, for best quality. Import bug: Timecode for 23.976 fps video with 3:2 pulldown is off - counts time as if frames are at 29.97. Playback is ok but not if imported as separate video/audio - must be program stream or loses pulldown entirely. Video at native 29.97 fps has no problems. Scrubbing thru video to pick thumbnail frame can be very slow for large video clips. Tech support so far as been *nonexistent*. I am a registered user and have received zero responses to two bug reports. Even though the product works fairly decently, their tech support offering zero help will prompt me to look elsewhere for my next video software purchase. (ARE YOU LISTENING, ULEAD?) MPEG capture setting profiles are fixed, can be altered only with editing config file to unlock them. Wish it had animated menu abilities. Nice selection of backgrounds and themes included. I'm optimistic at least the pulldown bug will be fixed via patches.

Site_And_Overall_DVD_Authoring_Comments

It's strange and disappointing how most if not all consumer DVD authoring software for Windows has stability problems. Nonetheless, I'm having a ball burning home-made DVDs. I prefer Unix/Linux and use Windows 2000 for video editing only because the tools I want are not yet available on Linux. Once they're up to snuff on Linux (maybe 1 year from now) I'll be retiring the "Windows box" anyway.

Name:

BDOG

Product:

Pinnacle Studio 8

Other_Product_Not_In_List:

 

Score:

Excellent

Problems:

 

HTTP User Agent:

Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.5; Windows NT 4.0)

Product_Comments

Site_And_Overall_DVD_Authoring_Comments

Name:

Dave Haynie

Product:

<Select One>

Other_Product_Not_In_List:

Pinnacle Impression DVD Pro

Score:

Good

Problems:

Program Crashes

Remote Name:

209.66.33.213

HTTP User Agent:

Opera/6.01 (Windows 2000; U) [en]

Date:

10 Feb 2003

Time:

22:45:08

Product_Comments

This is an authoring program; it doesn't capture, edit, or encode. Not terribly stable, either, but I give it high marks for being capable. It handles AC-3, it does multiple audio and video tracks, and doesn't get in the way of accessing the capabilities of the DVD format.

Site_And_Overall_DVD_Authoring_Comments

Name:

 

Product:

TMPGEnc

Other_Product_Not_In_List:

 

Score:

Perfect!

Problems:

 

Remote Name:

209.66.33.213

HTTP User Agent:

Opera/6.01 (Windows 2000; U) [en]

Date:

10 Feb 2003

Time:

22:47:20

Product_Comments

This encoder may be abused by beginners, but when you know what you're doing, it does everything. And it does it better than just about anything else regular people can afford. Highly recommended.

Site_And_Overall_DVD_Authoring_Comments

Name:

Dave Haynie

Product:

Dazzle DVD Complete

Other_Product_Not_In_List:

 

Score:

Good

Problems:

Program Hangs

Remote Name:

209.66.33.213

HTTP User Agent:

Opera/6.01 (Windows 2000; U) [en]

Date:

10 Feb 2003

Time:

22:49:26

Product_Comments

I have only used this for authoring DVDs. It's not bad for beginners, being more capable than any other $100 program, but it's totally template based. You have to hack template scripts if you want to make major changes to layouts. They really need a layout/template editor. Like more beginner programs, you can't use AC-3 audio, and 16:9 formats have to be hacked with IFOedit.

Site_And_Overall_DVD_Authoring_Comments

Name:

Rderriman

Product:

Pinnacle Studio 8

Other_Product_Not_In_List:

 

Score:

Excellent

Problems:

 

Remote Name:

62.49.33.114

HTTP User Agent:

Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1)

Date:

11 Feb 2003

Time:

01:56:53

Product_Comments

Super product. Used on Athlon 1.1 under ME and XP Pro NO PROBLEMS.

Site_And_Overall_DVD_Authoring_Comments

Name:

Frank Spencer

Product:

Pinnacle Studio 8

Other_Product_Not_In_List:

 

Score:

Perfect!

Problems:

 

Remote Name:

62.49.33.114

HTTP User Agent:

Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1)

Date:

11 Feb 2003

Time:

01:57:47

Product_Comments

None

Site_And_Overall_DVD_Authoring_Comments

Burning lots of CD's

Name:

TreacleMines

Product:

Pinnacle Studio 8

Other_Product_Not_In_List:

 

Score:

Perfect!

Problems:

 

Remote Name:

62.49.33.114

HTTP User Agent:

Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1)

Date:

11 Feb 2003

Time:

01:59:10

Product_Comments

Super product. Only bug found is with Title Deko and that has a workaround

Site_And_Overall_DVD_Authoring_Comments

What is the point of this site?

Name:

Singlehinge

Product:

Pinnacle Studio 8

Other_Product_Not_In_List:

 

Score:

Excellent

Problems:

 

Remote Name:

62.49.33.114

HTTP User Agent:

Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1)

Date:

11 Feb 2003

Time:

02:01:39

Product_Comments

Some problems getting the card recognised. Now brilliant

Site_And_Overall_DVD_Authoring_Comments

Name:

 

Product:

Dazzle DVD Complete

Other_Product_Not_In_List:

 

Score:

Crappy

Problems:

Encoding Broken

Remote Name:

65.81.43.120

HTTP User Agent:

Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; .NET CLR 1.0.3705)

Date:

11 Feb 2003

Time:

06:44:52

Product_Comments

Site_And_Overall_DVD_Authoring_Comments

Name:

Ron Davis

Product:

Pinnacle Studio 8

Other_Product_Not_In_List:

 

Score:

Poor

Problems:

Program Crashes, Program Hangs, Capture Broken, Render Broken, Burn2DVD Broken

Remote Name:

66.27.6.193

HTTP User Agent:

Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1)

Date:

11 Feb 2003

Time:

07:22:12

Product_Comments

Bad program, wait untill Pinnacle fixes

Site_And_Overall_DVD_Authoring_Comments

Name:

Mark

Product:

TMPGEnc

Other_Product_Not_In_List:

 

Score:

Excellent

Problems:

 

Remote Name:

136.8.159.11

HTTP User Agent:

Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.5; Windows NT 5.0; T312461; F-5.5SP2-20011022; F-5.0.1-20000221)

Date:

11 Feb 2003

Time:

07:34:40

Product_Comments

Very, very slow at top quality.

Site_And_Overall_DVD_Authoring_Comments

Name:

jefran2

Product:

Pinnacle Studio 8

Other_Product_Not_In_List:

 

Score:

Poor

Problems:

Program Crashes, Program Hangs, Render Broken, Burn2DVD Broken

Remote Name:

216.192.226.23

HTTP User Agent:

Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.01; Windows NT 5.0)

Date:

11 Feb 2003

Time:

08:49:53

Product_Comments

With 23 years of experience in the SW engineering field, I can say with some authority that the Studio 8 product isn't even beta quality. I've installed on three different platforms and tried to process multiple types of video through to DVD, and have yet to get through the entire process once w/o studio crashing and/or hanging. Rendering (even just to a file) always chokes randomly. Bottom line, save yourself the stress, and get a reliable product till Pinnacle takes getting this junk fixed seriously.

Site_And_Overall_DVD_Authoring_Comments

Good site. Glad someone is finally steering people away from the potential frustration with some of the video products out there. My DVD authoring experience so far is less that 6 months.

Name:

microkid

Product:

Sonic MyDVD

Other_Product_Not_In_List:

 

Score:

Fair

Problems:

 

Remote Name:

212.238.241.187

HTTP User Agent:

Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.0)

Date:

11 Feb 2003

Time:

13:04:36

Product_Comments

Just an average program, nothing fancy. Poor user interface.

Site_And_Overall_DVD_Authoring_Comments

Name:

 

Product:

Sonic MyDVD

Other_Product_Not_In_List:

 

Score:

Good

Problems:

Program Hangs

Remote Name:

66.190.193.59

HTTP User Agent:

Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; .NET CLR 1.0.3705)

Date:

11 Feb 2003

Time:

16:32:21

Product_Comments

Site_And_Overall_DVD_Authoring_Comments

Name:

sj-steve@pacbell.net

Product:

<Select One>

Other_Product_Not_In_List:

 

Score:

<Select>

Problems:

 

Remote Name:

216.103.83.86

HTTP User Agent:

Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; .NET CLR 1.0.3705)

Date:

11 Feb 2003

Time:

19:08:26

Product_Comments

Site_And_Overall_DVD_Authoring_Comments

Vegas Video 4

Name:

 

Product:

Pinnacle Studio 8

Other_Product_Not_In_List:

 

Score:

Perfect!

Problems:

 

Remote Name:

64.172.162.20

HTTP User Agent:

Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows 98; Win 9x 4.90)

Date:

12 Feb 2003

Time:

09:24:38

Product_Comments

Site_And_Overall_DVD_Authoring_Comments

Name:

 

Product:

Pinnacle Studio 8

Other_Product_Not_In_List:

 

Score:

Crappy

Problems:

Program Crashes, Program Hangs, Render Broken

Remote Name:

64.12.96.137

HTTP User Agent:

Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; AOL 8.0; Windows NT 5.1)

Date:

12 Feb 2003

Time:

12:10:35

Product_Comments

Site_And_Overall_DVD_Authoring_Comments

Name:

paulfritzpub

Product:

Ulead DVD Workshop

Other_Product_Not_In_List:

 

Score:

Fair

Problems:

Program Crashes

Remote Name:

64.160.19.240

HTTP User Agent:

Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.01; Windows NT 5.0)

Date:

12 Feb 2003

Time:

12:28:49

Product_Comments

Hangs and crashes may have finally been solved with a patch. Managing large projects with lots of files is nearly impossible. Scrubbing in edit mode is too slow. Burning does not allow inclusion of data files. Can not use Next/Prev remote buttons to navigate through multiple titles. Does not save and reuse rendered motion menus. I always use TMPGEnc for encoding because rendered files do not automatically replace original file and are poorer quality.

Site_And_Overall_DVD_Authoring_Comments

Name:

paulfritzpub

Product:

TMPGEnc

Other_Product_Not_In_List:

 

Score:

Excellent

Problems:

 

Remote Name:

64.160.19.240

HTTP User Agent:

Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.01; Windows NT 5.0)

Date:

12 Feb 2003

Time:

12:39:23

Product_Comments

Professional quality tool. Feature rich. Lossless encoding possible at 15Mbs (or less) for archiving source material.

Site_And_Overall_DVD_Authoring_Comments

Name:

 

Product:

ArcSoft ShowBiz

Other_Product_Not_In_List:

 

Score:

Poor

Problems:

Render Audio OOS, Program Hangs

Remote Name:

63.201.140.194

HTTP User Agent:

Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1)

Date:

12 Feb 2003

Time:

13:04:03

Product_Comments

Site_And_Overall_DVD_Authoring_Comments

Name:

Chester

Product:

Pinnacle Studio 8

Other_Product_Not_In_List:

 

Score:

Poor

Problems:

Program Crashes

Remote Name:

65.197.189.226

HTTP User Agent:

Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows 98; Q312461)

Date:

12 Feb 2003

Time:

18:57:24

Product_Comments

Does not like XP.

Site_And_Overall_DVD_Authoring_Comments

Name:

Product:

Pinnacle Studio 8

Other_Product_Not_In_List:

Score:

Crappy

Problems:

Capture Audio OOS

Remote Name:

66.27.6.193

HTTP User Agent:

Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1)

Date:

14 Feb 2003

Time:

13:19:34

Product_Comments

Site_And_Overall_DVD_Authoring_Comments

Name:

Product:

Pinnacle Studio 8

Other_Product_Not_In_List:

Score:

Crappy

Problems:

Program Crashes

Remote Name:

66.27.6.193

HTTP User Agent:

Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1)

Date:

14 Feb 2003

Time:

13:20:12

Product_Comments

Site_And_Overall_DVD_Authoring_Comments

Name:

Product:

Pinnacle Studio 8

Other_Product_Not_In_List:

Score:

Excellent

Problems:

Remote Name:

24.184.249.23

HTTP User Agent:

Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1)

Date:

14 Feb 2003

Time:

18:38:18

Product_Comments

Site_And_Overall_DVD_Authoring_Comments

Name:

Martin.Doppelbauer@t-online.de

Product:

Pinnacle Studio 8

Other_Product_Not_In_List:

Score:

Poor

Problems:

Program Crashes, Program Hangs, Encoding Quality Poor, Render Broken, Import Media Broken, Encoding Broken, Burn2DVD Broken

Remote Name:

212.185.248.219

HTTP User Agent:

Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; .NET CLR 1.0.3705)

Date:

15 Feb 2003

Time:

08:26:21

Product_Comments

Site_And_Overall_DVD_Authoring_Comments

Hi, I'm into DVD for 18 months now and have used (or at least tried to use) Studio 8 since Summer 2002. My experiences with the software are extremely bad. The program crashes so frequently that it's almost unusable. Even the latest bug-fix (8.5.18d) is only cabable of doing projects less then 30 mins in length. And you will need a minimum of 1 GB RAM even for movies of that size! DVD authoring and DVD menues are totally unusable.

Name:

i_best@hotmail.com

Product:

Pinnacle Studio 8

Other_Product_Not_In_List:

Score:

Crappy

Problems:

Capture Audio OOS, Program Crashes

Remote Name:

217.41.68.58

HTTP User Agent:

Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; .NET CLR 1.0.3705)

Date:

17 Feb 2003

Time:

14:44:09

Product_Comments

Tech support, or any kind of support is useless. The software is full of bugs. I upgraded my pc to a faster machine with XP and had to pay out for a software upgrade and now it works worse than before! Audio is either non-existent or out of sync or only 1 second of video gets captured or the whole app crashes!! Useless!

Site_And_Overall_DVD_Authoring_Comments

Name:

burgman88@hotmail.com

Product:

Dazzle DVD Complete

Other_Product_Not_In_List:

Score:

Poor

Problems:

Program Crashes

Remote Name:

24.53.161.198

HTTP User Agent:

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.0.2) Gecko/20021120 Netscape/7.01

Date:

20 Feb 2003

Time:

06:35:36

Product_Comments

I have tried several times to bring in MPEG2 complieant files that are over 1 gig in size and repeatly this version 2.06 crashes under Windows XP! Stick to a reliable program like MYDVD or Pinnacle Expression

Site_And_Overall_DVD_Authoring_Comments

I have been making DVD movies for the last year and before that I owned a production company making projects for VHS.

Name:

Product:

Dazzle DVD Complete

Other_Product_Not_In_List:

Score:

Fair

Problems:

Program Crashes

Remote Name:

66.108.219.221

HTTP User Agent:

Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1)

Date:

20 Feb 2003

Time:

16:19:01

Product_Comments

Site_And_Overall_DVD_Authoring_Comments

Name:

madnadcapone

Product:

Pinnacle Studio 8

Other_Product_Not_In_List:

Score:

Poor

Problems:

Program Hangs, Render Broken

Remote Name:

68.47.165.112

HTTP User Agent:

Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; .NET CLR 1.0.3705)

Date:

21 Feb 2003

Time:

18:15:55

Product_Comments

Site_And_Overall_DVD_Authoring_Comments

Name:

Product:

Microsoft Movie Maker

Other_Product_Not_In_List:

Score:

Excellent

Problems:

Remote Name:

12.125.208.38

HTTP User Agent:

Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; Q312461)

Date:

23 Feb 2003

Time:

00:54:47

Product_Comments

Site_And_Overall_DVD_Authoring_Comments

Name:

Product:

Microsoft Movie Maker

Other_Product_Not_In_List:

Score:

<Select>

Problems:

Remote Name:

204.210.80.209

HTTP User Agent:

Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1)

Date:

25 Feb 2003

Time:

19:58:41

Product_Comments

Site_And_Overall_DVD_Authoring_Comments

Name:

Product:

Ulead DVD Workshop

Other_Product_Not_In_List:

Score:

Fair

Problems:

Capture Audio OOS

Remote Name:

66.153.95.131

HTTP User Agent:

Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 4.0)

Date:

06 Mar 2003

Time:

10:44:19

Product_Comments

Site_And_Overall_DVD_Authoring_Comments

Has a nice interface fairly easy to use but can't get the audio in sync no matter what i do. called tech support no good, no one answers or they would say the company was closed. sent several e-mails, phone messages no good either never a call back.sent it back

Name:

bayeesingh@yahoo.com

Product:

<Select One>

Other_Product_Not_In_List:

PictureToTV

Score:

Excellent

Problems:

Remote Name:

202.156.2.162

HTTP User Agent:

Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1)

Date:

09 Mar 2003

Time:

23:37:07

Product_Comments

Very easy to use, and much more flexible than Ulead PictureShow when you have lots of pictures. Transitions are cooler as well.

Site_And_Overall_DVD_Authoring_Comments

Name:

Product:

ArcSoft ShowBiz

Other_Product_Not_In_List:

Score:

<Select>

Problems:

Remote Name:

80.49.9.96

HTTP User Agent:

Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1)

Date:

21 Mar 2003

Time:

05:49:36

Product_Comments

Site_And_Overall_DVD_Authoring_Comments

Name:

Product:

ArcSoft ShowBiz

Other_Product_Not_In_List:

Score:

Perfect!

Problems:

Encoding Quality Poor

Remote Name:

80.49.9.96

HTTP User Agent:

Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1)

Date:

21 Mar 2003

Time:

15:09:38

Product_Comments

Site_And_Overall_DVD_Authoring_Comments

Name:

Product:

Pinnacle Studio 8

Other_Product_Not_In_List:

Score:

Poor

Problems:

Encoding Broken

Remote Name:

134.134.136.2

HTTP User Agent:

Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1)

Date:

25 Mar 2003

Time:

15:09:52

Product_Comments

does not allow direst mpeg2 encoding upon caoturing as advertised

Site_And_Overall_DVD_Authoring_Comments

Name:

Product:

<Select One>

Other_Product_Not_In_List:

Burn2dvd

Score:

<Select>

Problems:

Remote Name:

80.61.35.35

HTTP User Agent:

Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1)

Date:

05 Apr 2003

Time:

05:49:28

Product_Comments

Site_And_Overall_DVD_Authoring_Comments

Name:

billbr

Product:

Ulead Video Studio Pro v6

Other_Product_Not_In_List:

Score:

Good

Problems:

Encoding Quality Poor

Remote Name:

66.237.95.100

HTTP User Agent:

Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows 98; Win 9x 4.90; Q312461)

Date:

07 Apr 2003

Time:

10:32:02

Product_Comments

Missing templates for DVD editing. Works as advertised (albeit very slowly)

Site_And_Overall_DVD_Authoring_Comments

DVD newbie. 27 years of computer development and implementation (hardware and software).

Name:

billbr

Product:

Sonic MyDVD

Other_Product_Not_In_List:

Score:

Good

Problems:

Remote Name:

66.237.95.100

HTTP User Agent:

Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows 98; Win 9x 4.90; Q312461)

Date:

07 Apr 2003

Time:

10:34:06

Product_Comments

Limited capability, but workable for simple projects.

Site_And_Overall_DVD_Authoring_Comments

Excellent information place. Some sites are all glitz. This one is all data!

Name:

Product:

TMPGEnc

Other_Product_Not_In_List:

Score:

Excellent

Problems:

Remote Name:

68.10.61.41

HTTP User Agent:

Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.0)

Date:

12 Apr 2003

Time:

22:35:54

Product_Comments

Site_And_Overall_DVD_Authoring_Comments

Name:

Product:

ArcSoft ShowBiz

Other_Product_Not_In_List:

Score:

Crappy

Problems:

Program Hangs

Remote Name:

195.67.69.138

HTTP User Agent:

Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.0)

Date:

29 Apr 2003

Time:

05:27:44

Product_Comments

HP300i program pack, as soon as a transition or other effect is added to/between inserted videoclips the program hangs. Tested in WinXP/WinME. No help from either HP or ArcSoft,.. no support at all :-(

Site_And_Overall_DVD_Authoring_Comments

Name:

geo69

Product:

Pinnacle Studio 8

Other_Product_Not_In_List:

Score:

Poor

Problems:

Capture Audio OOS

Remote Name:

24.112.68.140

HTTP User Agent:

Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1)

Date:

03 May 2003

Time:

19:59:54

Product_Comments

sucks

Site_And_Overall_DVD_Authoring_Comments

Name:

almost40_3girls

Product:

Pinnacle Studio 8

Other_Product_Not_In_List:

Score:

Excellent

Problems:

Remote Name:

12.34.246.7

HTTP User Agent:

Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 4.0; Q312461; SFIE60122601; SFIEAUTH1)

Date:

21 May 2003

Time:

09:02:14

Product_Comments

Over all very satisfied with the performance with Studio 8. I capture analog only now, and output to VHS and DVD-r. Have had very little problems, just learned to save the project file frequently.

Site_And_Overall_DVD_Authoring_Comments

Just found the site. DVD authoring is fun for me, I have MyDVD hich came with my Pioneer burner but it is way simple and you can't do much. Studio 8's authoring is very nice and full featured for a $99USD product. There are somethings I would like to see added, but for now it is great.

Name:

almost40_3girls

Product:

Pinnacle Studio 8

Other_Product_Not_In_List:

Score:

Excellent

Problems:

Remote Name:

12.34.246.7

HTTP User Agent:

Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 4.0; Q312461; SFIE60122601; SFIEAUTH1)

Date:

21 May 2003

Time:

09:04:37

Product_Comments

Over all very satisfied with the performance with Studio 8. I capture analog only now, and output to VHS and DVD-r. Have had very little problems, just learned to save the project file frequently.

Site_And_Overall_DVD_Authoring_Comments

Just found the site. DVD authoring is fun for me, I have MyDVD hich came with my Pioneer burner but it is way simple and you can't do much. Studio 8's authoring is very nice and full featured for a $99USD product. There are somethings I would like to see added, but for now it is great.

Name:

RonH

Product:

Pinnacle Studio 8

Other_Product_Not_In_List:

Score:

Poor

Problems:

Capture Audio OOS, Program Crashes, Program Hangs, Capture Broken, Render Broken, Import Media Broken, Burn2DVD Broken

Remote Name:

66.89.22.90

HTTP User Agent:

Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.5; Windows NT 5.0)

Date:

21 May 2003

Time:

09:23:11

Product_Comments

Great editing features, but program crashes a lot while editing, so save often. Caturing analog gets audio OOS problems. Encoding is excruciatingly slow. Forget about DVD menus and burning. Tech support is only through their forum and is very sparse.

Site_And_Overall_DVD_Authoring_Comments

Good forum. Studio 8 is the most unstable software I've ever seen, but it has a cool editing interface for video and audio, with lots of pro-looking transitions. I use Scenalyzer for analog capture, Studio to split into AVI's and add music and fades, TMPGenc to render the AVI's to MPG's, MyDVD to burn, RecordNow to copy, and MediaFace to make labels and case inserts. Takes forever but the end result is very satisfying.

Name:

RonH

Product:

Scenalyzer

Other_Product_Not_In_List:

Score:

Excellent

Problems:

Remote Name:

66.89.22.90

HTTP User Agent:

Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.5; Windows NT 5.0)

Date:

21 May 2003

Time:

09:25:26

Product_Comments

Very nice, audio is always in sync when using Pinnacle AVDV, but I can confirm that the stop capture timer does not work ... it fills up the hard disk if I forget to stop it myself!

Site_And_Overall_DVD_Authoring_Comments

Name:

Product:

Sonic MyDVD

Other_Product_Not_In_List:

Score:

Excellent

Problems:

Capture Broken

Remote Name:

66.89.22.90

HTTP User Agent:

Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.5; Windows NT 5.0)

Date:

21 May 2003

Time:

09:30:19

Product_Comments

Was not able to capture from DV cam without crashes. Burn crashes sometimes if I forget to reboot before starting. I use this only for creating DVD's from finished AVI's or MPG's, where each one is a selection on the menu and it works very for that. Wish it had the ability to select chapter points from a finished video.

Site_And_Overall_DVD_Authoring_Comments

Name:

Product:

ULead DVD Movie Factory

Other_Product_Not_In_List:

Score:

Fair

Problems:

Remote Name:

66.89.22.90

HTTP User Agent:

Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.5; Windows NT 5.0)

Date:

21 May 2003

Time:

09:32:06

Product_Comments

I tried this and didn't like how two levels of menus were required. I use MyDVD instead.

Site_And_Overall_DVD_Authoring_Comments

Name:

Product:

TMPGEnc

Other_Product_Not_In_List:

Score:

Perfect!

Problems:

Remote Name:

66.89.22.90

HTTP User Agent:

Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.5; Windows NT 5.0)

Date:

21 May 2003

Time:

09:35:09

Product_Comments

Great program, very stable, lots of options, lots of progress reporting, batch encoding capability. Only hangup is poor English translations on interface, but who cares since this works great.

Site_And_Overall_DVD_Authoring_Comments

Name:

Product:

Pinnacle Studio 8

Other_Product_Not_In_List:

Score:

Crappy

Problems:

Render Broken

Remote Name:

199.53.215.37

HTTP User Agent:

Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.5; Windows NT 4.0; H010818)

Date:

23 May 2003

Time:

11:25:51

Product_Comments

Site_And_Overall_DVD_Authoring_Comments

Name:

Product:

Pinnacle Studio 8

Other_Product_Not_In_List:

Score:

Good

Problems:

Render Audio OOS

Remote Name:

12.221.197.136

HTTP User Agent:

Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1)

Date:

19 Jun 2003

Time:

22:13:48

Product_Comments

Site_And_Overall_DVD_Authoring_Comments

Easy to use when it works but many bugs require frequent updates and fixes. Still having audio OOS problems on old analog videos.

Name:

Product:

Pinnacle Studio 8

Other_Product_Not_In_List:

Score:

Excellent

Problems:

Remote Name:

66.176.97.53

HTTP User Agent:

Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1)

Date:

20 Jun 2003

Time:

10:15:58

Product_Comments

Site_And_Overall_DVD_Authoring_Comments

Name:

Product:

Pinnacle Studio 8

Other_Product_Not_In_List:

Score:

Fair

Problems:

Burn2DVD Broken

Remote Name:

152.163.252.133

HTTP User Agent:

Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; AOL 7.0; Windows NT 5.1)

Date:

21 Jun 2003

Time:

02:54:09

Product_Comments

Site_And_Overall_DVD_Authoring_Comments

Name:

Product:

Pinnacle Studio 8

Other_Product_Not_In_List:

Score:

Poor

Problems:

Program Crashes, Program Hangs

Remote Name:

203.220.89.19

HTTP User Agent:

Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1)

Date:

06 Jul 2003

Time:

08:02:22

Product_Comments

corrupted projects is common.had to rebuild project twice(half hour vid including 330 clips and titles-8 hrs work)also keeps losing soundtracks in project.great to use but the crashes cause too many problems.more drama than the early settlers !! if they don't get it together soon i doubt i will bother with their software in the future.once bitten,twice shy

Site_And_Overall_DVD_Authoring_Comments

Name:

Product:

Pinnacle Studio 8

Other_Product_Not_In_List:

Score:

Crappy

Problems:

Program Crashes

Remote Name:

81.6.221.156

HTTP User Agent:

Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows 98; Win 9x 4.90; T312461)

Date:

08 Jul 2003

Time:

15:54:51

Product_Comments

Complete rubbish. Don't bother

Site_And_Overall_DVD_Authoring_Comments

Very helpful

Name:

Lenny

Product:

Ulead Video Studio Pro v6

Other_Product_Not_In_List:

Score:

Fair

Problems:

Program Crashes, Program Hangs, Encoding Quality Poor

Remote Name:

206.195.19.41

HTTP User Agent:

Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.5; Windows NT 4.0; T312461)

Date:

11 Jul 2003

Time:

09:15:08

Product_Comments

Good: transition and video effects. Bad: Slow, inconvenient, bad quality output (slideshow on DVD).

Site_And_Overall_DVD_Authoring_Comments

Video Studio 7 - trial version

Name:

gcrob@bellsouth.net

Product:

Pinnacle Studio 8

Other_Product_Not_In_List:

Score:

Poor

Problems:

Render Audio OOS, Burn2DVD Broken

Remote Name:

68.17.130.235

HTTP User Agent:

Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1)

Date:

13 Jul 2003

Time:

04:48:37

Product_Comments

"Failed to compile disk" crops up unexpectedly and then dissappears.

Site_And_Overall_DVD_Authoring_Comments

Crappy software. Most of my software can't capture (Sonic, ULEAD, MS MovieMaker. Studio8 captures nicely, but usually can't compile.

Name:

Product:

Pinnacle Studio 8

Other_Product_Not_In_List:

Score:

Fair

Problems:

Burn2DVD Broken

Remote Name:

68.106.114.55

HTTP User Agent:

Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1)

Date:

21 Jul 2003

Time:

15:04:59

Product_Comments

Site_And_Overall_DVD_Authoring_Comments

Name:

Product:

Pinnacle Studio 8

Other_Product_Not_In_List:

Score:

Poor

Problems:

Program Crashes, Program Hangs

Remote Name:

68.193.38.130

HTTP User Agent:

Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.0)

Date:

25 Jul 2003

Time:

19:24:43

Product_Comments

Program is dramatically unstable and the support offered by Pinnacle is poor. The features would be great if they all worked.

Site_And_Overall_DVD_Authoring_Comments

Name:

Product:

ULead DVD Movie Factory

Other_Product_Not_In_List:

Score:

Poor

Problems:

Render Audio OOS

Remote Name:

194.129.249.240

HTTP User Agent:

Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.0)

Date:

28 Jul 2003

Time:

12:15:53

Product_Comments

everything was great, but the burned output has sound that is OOS !

Site_And_Overall_DVD_Authoring_Comments

Name:

Product:

Sonic MyDVD

Other_Product_Not_In_List:

Score:

Fair

Problems:

Program Crashes

Remote Name:

194.129.249.240

HTTP User Agent:

Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.0)

Date:

28 Jul 2003

Time:

12:17:07

Product_Comments

fails whenever trying to burn a DVD with any sub-menus; does not properly calculate MINUTES of video when importing files.

Site_And_Overall_DVD_Authoring_Comments

Name:

Product:

Ulead DVD Workshop

Other_Product_Not_In_List:

Score:

Poor

Problems:

Capture Broken

Remote Name:

4.40.151.209

HTTP User Agent:

Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1)

Date:

04 Aug 2003

Time:

20:25:18

Product_Comments

I was, at a previous time, able to capture with this program and it did a reasonably good job (captures to MPEG-2, which is useful to me). At some point (without my making any changes to the program) I began to get "Failed to build preview graph" errors when attempting to capture. I reinstalled the product, corrected some potential permissions problems on my work drive and tuned up my IEEE a little (read that the error could be caused by a device conflict). Nothing resolved the issue, and I am not having trouble with any of my other capturing problems.

Site_And_Overall_DVD_Authoring_Comments

Very nice site, lots of useful info here. The design is easy on the eyes, too. I have been working with digital video for years and PCs in general for...a really long time. I have only authored a few DVDs, but I'd consider myself to be at an intermediate level of knowledge (and soon to be expert with sites like this!).

Name:

Product:

Ulead DVD Workshop

Other_Product_Not_In_List:

Score:

Poor

Problems:

Capture Broken

Remote Name:

4.40.151.209

HTTP User Agent:

Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1)

Date:

04 Aug 2003

Time:

20:28:13

Product_Comments

**NOTE: This is resubmit of a review I entered only a few seconds ago. I corrected a typo that may have been confusing. Thank you!** I was, at a previous time, able to capture with this program and it did a reasonably good job (captures to MPEG-2, which is useful to me). At some point (without my making any changes to the program) I began to get "Failed to build preview graph" errors when attempting to capture. I reinstalled the product, corrected some potential permissions problems on my work drive and tuned up my IEEE a little (read that the error could be caused by a device conflict). Nothing resolved the issue, and I am not having trouble with any of my other capturing programs.

Site_And_Overall_DVD_Authoring_Comments

**NOTE: This is resubmit of a review I entered only a few seconds ago. I corrected a typo that may have been confusing. Thank you!** Very nice site, lots of useful info here. The design is easy on the eyes, too. I have been working with digital video for years and PCs in general for...a really long time. I have only authored a few DVDs, but I'd consider myself to be at an intermediate level of knowledge (and soon to be expert with sites like this!).

Name:

Product:

TMPGEnc

Other_Product_Not_In_List:

Score:

Perfect!

Problems:

Remote Name:

4.40.151.209

HTTP User Agent:

Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1)

Date:

04 Aug 2003

Time:

20:30:12

Product_Comments

A must have for any DV professional's toolbox.

Site_And_Overall_DVD_Authoring_Comments

Very nice site, lots of useful info here. The design is easy on the eyes, too. I have been working with digital video for years and PCs in general for...a really long time. I have only authored a few DVDs, but I'd consider myself to be at an intermediate level of knowledge (and soon to be expert with sites like this!).

Name:

Product:

Pinnacle Studio 8

Other_Product_Not_In_List:

Score:

Crappy

Problems:

Render Broken

Remote Name:

80.143.204.40

HTTP User Agent:

Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1)

Date:

20 Aug 2003

Time:

19:51:59

Product_Comments

Compile Failure

Site_And_Overall_DVD_Authoring_Comments

Name:

Product:

ULead DVD Movie Factory

Other_Product_Not_In_List:

Score:

<Select>

Problems:

Render Audio OOS

Remote Name:

130.230.201.18

HTTP User Agent:

Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.22; Mac_PowerPC)

Date:

26 Aug 2003

Time:

06:01:54

Product_Comments

Site_And_Overall_DVD_Authoring_Comments

Name:

Gene

Product:

<Select One>

Other_Product_Not_In_List:

Cyberlink PowerDirector Pro

Score:

Excellent

Problems:

Remote Name:

68.50.8.83

HTTP User Agent:

Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.0)

Date:

30 Aug 2003

Time:

21:25:06

Product_Comments

Very stable and easy to use with a virtual "knob" that lets you select the stages of producing a video. My only real complaint is the lack of more menus for DVD authoring.

Site_And_Overall_DVD_Authoring_Comments

As you've stated, Studio 8 seems to have the best features and interface, but is very unstable. I attempted to make a DVD, but the program made 2 DVD+RW "coasters" on the final create DVD step. I got so upset that I uninstalled the program. Similarly, Ulead VideoStudio 7 has good features, but froze up my computer during the create DVD phase...uninstalled that program as well. I would have to recommend PowerDirector Pro overall.

Name:

maxestrada1@msn.com

Product:

Pinnacle Studio 8

Other_Product_Not_In_List:

Score:

Fair

Problems:

Program Crashes

Remote Name:

68.72.139.38

HTTP User Agent:

Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; sbcydsl 3.12; YComp 5.0.8.6; .NET CLR 1.0.3705; yplus 3.01)

Date:

01 Sep 2003

Time:

17:35:54

Product_Comments

program crashes so often that you need to save your project every change you are making. and with version 8.8 no preview of you project unlees you uncheck " background rendering " in Edit Mode.

Site_And_Overall_DVD_Authoring_Comments

Name:

Product:

Microsoft Movie Maker

Other_Product_Not_In_List:

dv

Score:

<Select>

Problems:

Remote Name:

130.230.201.18

HTTP User Agent:

Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.22; Mac_PowerPC)

Date:

03 Sep 2003

Time:

10:48:39

Product_Comments

Site_And_Overall_DVD_Authoring_Comments

Name:

Product:

Microsoft Movie Maker

Other_Product_Not_In_List:

Score:

<Select>

Problems:

Remote Name:

130.230.201.18

HTTP User Agent:

Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.22; Mac_PowerPC)

Date:

03 Sep 2003

Time:

10:48:51

Product_Comments

Site_And_Overall_DVD_Authoring_Comments

Name:

Product:

Sonic MyDVD

Other_Product_Not_In_List:

Score:

Perfect!

Problems:

Remote Name:

80.100.75.66

HTTP User Agent:

Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows 98)

Date:

03 Sep 2003

Time:

13:04:02

Product_Comments

Site_And_Overall_DVD_Authoring_Comments

Name:

Product:

Sonic MyDVD

Other_Product_Not_In_List:

Score:

<Select>

Problems:

Program Crashes

Remote Name:

80.200.56.95

HTTP User Agent:

Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; Hotbar 4.0)

Date:

04 Sep 2003

Time:

13:41:25

Product_Comments

Site_And_Overall_DVD_Authoring_Comments

Name:

Product:

<Select One>

Other_Product_Not_In_List:

Score:

<Select>

Problems:

Capture Audio OOS

Remote Name:

195.93.34.9

HTTP User Agent:

Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; AOL 7.0; Windows NT 5.1)

Date:

05 Sep 2003

Time:

02:07:54

Product_Comments

Site_And_Overall_DVD_Authoring_Comments

Name:

Product:

Pinnacle Studio 8

Other_Product_Not_In_List:

Score:

Poor

Problems:

Program Crashes

Remote Name:

81.226.134.37

HTTP User Agent:

Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1)

Date:

12 Sep 2003

Time:

12:01:32

Product_Comments

Site_And_Overall_DVD_Authoring_Comments

Name:

Jim Smith

Product:

Pinnacle Studio 8

Other_Product_Not_In_List:

Score:

Crappy

Problems:

Program Hangs, Render Broken, Encoding Broken

Remote Name:

68.99.195.163

HTTP User Agent:

Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; Q312461)

Date:

13 Sep 2003

Time:

23:14:00

Product_Comments

Latest V.8.8.17 previews fine, but renders only around menu and chapter points for me. Tried several times; no help from Pinnacle boards.

Site_And_Overall_DVD_Authoring_Comments

Very helpful information here - Thanks! I must consider giving up on Pinnacle Studio 8 and trying a different program, having made 4 successful DVD's earlier, but nothing in past dozen trys worked, even after Updating and Reloading everything.

Name:

roland

Product:

Pinnacle Studio 8

Other_Product_Not_In_List:

Score:

Fair

Problems:

Render Broken

Remote Name:

194.230.230.102

HTTP User Agent:

Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.0)

Date:

15 Sep 2003

Time:

12:39:25

Product_Comments

Easy to use, but crashes rendering my project reproducibly on two completely different computers.

Site_And_Overall_DVD_Authoring_Comments

Name:

Product:

<Select One>

Other_Product_Not_In_List:

Sonic DVDit PE

Score:

Poor

Problems:

Encoding Broken

Remote Name:

166.37.102.9

HTTP User Agent:

Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows 98; T312461)

Date:

19 Sep 2003

Time:

09:34:04

Product_Comments

Everything seems to work well--you can even put chapter points in your movie (which I have been looking for). But, program is somewhat buggy & caused my PC to crash (XP1600+ running win 2k) often. It didn't crash often with winXP, but I couldn't get through the "build DVD" stage in XP or Win2K. So, I wasted numerous hours authoring, and have nothing to show for it! NOT RECOMMENDED.

Site_And_Overall_DVD_Authoring_Comments

I have had very bad luck with these programs crashing or not making it through the "build" phase. DVDit PE is a complete waste of time. VegasVideo has great capture abilities, but authoring is difficult. MyDVD from Sonic is about the only program I have been able to successfully use to author and burn a dvd or dvd-image. Unfortunately, you can't add chapter points in this program (it's main drawback, in my opinion).

Name:

Product:

ULead DVD Movie Factory

Other_Product_Not_In_List:

Score:

Perfect!

Problems:

Program Crashes

Remote Name:

212.114.232.168

HTTP User Agent:

Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1)

Date:

19 Sep 2003

Time:

12:44:48

Product_Comments

Site_And_Overall_DVD_Authoring_Comments

Name:

Product:

Pinnacle Studio 8

Other_Product_Not_In_List:

Score:

Good

Problems:

Program Crashes

Remote Name:

12.239.133.140

HTTP User Agent:

Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; Avant Browser [avantbrowser.com])

Date:

22 Sep 2003

Time:

18:44:00

Product_Comments

Demo version which you can download for free crashes, repeatedly. Doesn't make you want to spend $100 on it does it?

Site_And_Overall_DVD_Authoring_Comments

Name:

Product:

Dazzle DVD Complete

Other_Product_Not_In_List:

Score:

Fair

Problems:

Encoding Quality Poor, Burn2DVD Broken

Remote Name:

24.197.207.96

HTTP User Agent:

Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; .NET CLR 1.0.3705; .NET CLR 1.1.4322)

Date:

24 Sep 2003

Time:

08:02:14

Product_Comments

Site_And_Overall_DVD_Authoring_Comments

I've just started using this program. I have not been able to burn a DVD because it is not recognizing my DVD burner. I've been in touch with Pinnacle Systems who has given me a (long distance) phone number for Dazzle. By the way, Pinnacle systems has announced that they are no longer supporting DVD complete.

Name:

kris

Product:

Pinnacle Studio 8

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Score:

Excellent

Problems:

Remote Name:

209.180.20.232

HTTP User Agent:

Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.5; Windows NT 4.0)

Date:

24 Sep 2003

Time:

08:59:51

Product_Comments

works well on my PII ... want a reverse motion setting

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Name:

Product:

Pinnacle Studio 8

Other_Product_Not_In_List:

Score:

Crappy

Problems:

Burn2DVD Broken

Remote Name:

194.230.175.248

HTTP User Agent:

Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows 98; Win 9x 4.90)

Date:

29 Sep 2003

Time:

13:55:54

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Name:

test

Product:

<Select One>

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Score:

<Select>

Problems:

Remote Name:

129.33.49.251

HTTP User Agent:

Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.0)

Date:

01 Oct 2003

Time:

16:02:34

Product_Comments

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test

Name:

test

Product:

<Select One>

Other_Product_Not_In_List:

Score:

<Select>

Problems:

Remote Name:

129.33.49.251

HTTP User Agent:

Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.0)

Date:

01 Oct 2003

Time:

16:02:45

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test

Name:

Ron Bremner

Product:

Pinnacle Studio 8

Other_Product_Not_In_List:

Score:

Fair

Problems:

Remote Name:

24.149.5.8

HTTP User Agent:

Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; .NET CLR 1.1.4322)

Date:

04 Oct 2003

Time:

22:11:21

Product_Comments

Product was actually Pinnacle Studio 8 AV. Installed correctly on first computer. When we moved the card to an e-machines 1742, would not install correctly. Both were running Windows XP Home. It would not recognize the card. Also, on first machine, lost a lot of frames. Took product back, looking for another that works.

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Name:

jdsmith@zippnet.net

Product:

Pinnacle Studio 8

Other_Product_Not_In_List:

Score:

Excellent

Problems:

Remote Name:

63.93.64.61

HTTP User Agent:

Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; .NET CLR 1.0.3705)

Date:

06 Oct 2003

Time:

10:58:56

Product_Comments

Wow, I guess that I have been one of the lucky ones since I haven't had any technical problems with Studio 8. I bought it back in 10/02 and have authored dozens of DVD's and SVCD's for my son's football teams. I've used just about every feature of the program without a hitch. It's biggest shortcoming is no multi-pass VBR. If it had that, I'd be in heaven (for now). If it helps, I'm running P4 2.6, 1GB, DRX500UL, Radeon 9600, XP.

Site_And_Overall_DVD_Authoring_Comments

Cool site. I'm very interested in TMPGEnc. It sounds like it's will fill in the gaps.

Name:

Product:

Pinnacle Studio 8

Other_Product_Not_In_List:

Score:

Crappy

Problems:

Render Audio OOS

Remote Name:

141.156.38.73

HTTP User Agent:

Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; .NET CLR 1.1.4322)

Date:

07 Oct 2003

Time:

15:49:32

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Name:

Steelskin johnspangler-nospamforme-@netzero.net

Product:

ArcSoft ShowBiz

Other_Product_Not_In_List:

Score:

Excellent

Problems:

Capture Broken

Remote Name:

68.63.180.35

HTTP User Agent:

Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1)

Date:

11 Oct 2003

Time:

12:51:36

Product_Comments

Program crashes if you try to capture video. However, a good tool for rendering DVD video as you can select the quality % and thus get a lot more time on a DVD than usual. This is good for archiving VCR quality material. I've crammed over 170 minutes on a DVD before. Best feature is the "smooth" effect (on by default), that takes some of the pixelation out of MPEG-1 (or worse) sources. Practical list of transitions. on my P4 2.4ghz machine it takes roughly 2.5 times the video's length to render a file. Nipping out commercials is a pain, though this may be from the raw video files I'm importing. Converts about 95% of what I've thrown at it into MPEG-2.

Site_And_Overall_DVD_Authoring_Comments

I came across this site when I first got my drive in January 2003 and was relieved to find someone else sharing my pain and frustration. I've got a 2.4x Memorex +R/+RW drive. When I first plugged it in, it sort of worked, stalled a few times, and within a week coughed up a little white gear about the size of a dime. The protective sticker seal was severed from installation, so I went and repaired it myself. I've since burned about 40 DVD's and maybe 15 CD-R's so I'm rather proud of myself. I'm sure everyone by now has a process that works for them, so I'll share mine. After trying several programs, I capture using Intervideo WIN DVR using NTSC DVD settings. This captures reliably in-sync and generally is a nice program as you can set it to record while you're away, like a TIVO. The files created are "stiff" in that it takes forever for a 300mb file to load into anything, play back, or even delete. If I play a rendered 300mb file it pops up quickly. From there I use Arcsoft Showbiz to nip out commercials and add transitions if needed. The finished rendered file is imported into Sonic DVDit for menu making. Only gripes I have against DVDit is the project settings LIES to you. There's a green bar that turns red if you add too much material. A good idea, but in actuality you can't have a project size greater than 4.2gb or so, otherwise the output is too big for a DVD+R! If the project is between 4.6 and 4.69 it'll error out with some gibberish that means the file is too big... after 3 hours of rendering. Anyway, I render the DVD to a folder on my hard drive so I can make mulitple copies without re-doing it every time. I then use Nero 5 to burn a test copy to DVD+RW, then if it's all good, 2 copies to DVD+R, then I can delete the gigs of source materials! All in all, it takes about 2.5-3 hours per 22 minute episode of a show, 11 hours for a full 2 hour movie to put it on DVD including capture, edit, render, DVD menu, DVD render, test burn, reburn. And that's if everything goes smoothly. :) It's a labor of love at this point. To date I've put about 105 episodes of tv shows, 4 music video tapes, and 5-6 movies on DVD.

Name:

Product:

Pinnacle Studio 8

Other_Product_Not_In_List:

Score:

Poor

Problems:

Program Hangs

Remote Name:

204.32.207.23

HTTP User Agent:

Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1)

Date:

17 Oct 2003

Time:

23:15:57

Product_Comments

2 coasters for every dvd that played.

Site_And_Overall_DVD_Authoring_Comments

Name:

Product:

Pinnacle Studio 8

Other_Product_Not_In_List:

Score:

<Select>

Problems:

Encoding Quality Poor

Remote Name:

193.212.225.170

HTTP User Agent:

Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; Q312461)

Date:

24 Oct 2003

Time:

09:25:34

Product_Comments

Site_And_Overall_DVD_Authoring_Comments

Name:

jack.k.cohen@verizon.net

Product:

Pinnacle Studio 8

Other_Product_Not_In_List:

Score:

Crappy

Problems:

Program Crashes, Program Hangs, Render Broken

Remote Name:

68.161.44.233

HTTP User Agent:

Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1)

Date:

25 Oct 2003

Time:

12:33:02

Product_Comments

This would be a great program if it had better Product Support and not so many damn bugs.

Site_And_Overall_DVD_Authoring_Comments

Name:

IR

Product:

Pinnacle Studio 8

Other_Product_Not_In_List:

Score:

Crappy

Problems:

Capture Audio OOS, Render Audio OOS, Program Crashes, Burn2DVD Broken

Remote Name:

67.81.33.247

HTTP User Agent:

Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1)

Date:

25 Oct 2003

Time:

14:30:22

Product_Comments

Love the interface. Could be a great progem - if it worked. I am tying for 2 months now. Still no way to get video and audio in synch. Pinnacle support is the worst. It is beyond bad. They are degrading, insulting and simply lie left and right.

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Name:

Bill

Product:

Dazzle DVD Complete

Other_Product_Not_In_List:

Score:

Good

Problems:

Burn2DVD Broken

Remote Name:

149.168.157.189

HTTP User Agent:

Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; .NET CLR 1.0.3705)

Date:

27 Oct 2003

Time:

14:00:35

Product_Comments

Capture with ATI wonder card, encode with DVD Complete, burn with Veritas

Site_And_Overall_DVD_Authoring_Comments

Great site! hope to visit often.

Name:

Product:

Pinnacle Studio 8

Other_Product_Not_In_List:

Score:

Good

Problems:

Burn2DVD Broken

Remote Name:

67.161.28.132

HTTP User Agent:

Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; .NET CLR 1.1.4322)

Date:

08 Nov 2003

Time:

19:17:27

Product_Comments

It wedges hard when you try to write to DVD-R on a new system under XP using a Pioneer A06

Site_And_Overall_DVD_Authoring_Comments

Name:

Product:

Pinnacle Studio 8

Other_Product_Not_In_List:

Score:

Crappy

Problems:

Program Crashes, Program Hangs, Burn2DVD Broken

Remote Name:

204.64.4.135

HTTP User Agent:

Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; .NET CLR 1.0.3705)

Date:

10 Nov 2003

Time:

17:17:37

Product_Comments

Tech support is useless, software simply does not work consistently. If at all.

Site_And_Overall_DVD_Authoring_Comments

Just horrible software.....

Name:

Product:

Pinnacle Studio 8

Other_Product_Not_In_List:

Score:

Poor

Problems:

Capture Audio OOS

Remote Name:

24.61.244.213

HTTP User Agent:

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030624

Date:

14 Nov 2003

Time:

10:15:24

Product_Comments

Site_And_Overall_DVD_Authoring_Comments

Name:

Product:

<Select One>

Other_Product_Not_In_List:

pinnacle studio 7

Score:

Good

Problems:

Remote Name:

152.19.26.122

HTTP User Agent:

Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.0; .NET CLR 1.1.4322)

Date:

14 Nov 2003

Time:

11:54:30

Product_Comments

I like the editing facility. When I make the final DVD the picture has some granularity which is annoying and worse than the AVI file - sure its compressed but comercial DVDs are smooth, why aren't mine?! Is it the MPEG codec that is different? Speed is less important than quality to me, does anyone know of better codecs than that used in studio 7? thanks

Site_And_Overall_DVD_Authoring_Comments

Name:

Product:

Pinnacle Studio 8

Other_Product_Not_In_List:

Score:

<Select>

Problems:

Remote Name:

65.33.239.217

HTTP User Agent:

Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; .NET CLR 1.1.4322)

Date:

15 Nov 2003

Time:

09:39:18

Product_Comments

Site_And_Overall_DVD_Authoring_Comments

Name:

Product:

Pinnacle Studio 8

Other_Product_Not_In_List:

Score:

Crappy

Problems:

Program Crashes, Program Hangs

Remote Name:

145.36.10.111

HTTP User Agent:

Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.0; .NET CLR 1.1.4322)

Date:

18 Nov 2003

Time:

06:47:48

Product_Comments

Win98: could not capture Win2000: crashes at start-up

Site_And_Overall_DVD_Authoring_Comments

Name:

Product:

Pinnacle Studio 8

Other_Product_Not_In_List:

Score:

Poor

Problems:

Capture Audio OOS

Remote Name:

80.1.25.169

HTTP User Agent:

Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; DigExt; VNIE60)

Date:

19 Nov 2003

Time:

10:48:30

Product_Comments

Site_And_Overall_DVD_Authoring_Comments

Name:

Product:

ULead DVD Movie Factory

Other_Product_Not_In_List:

Score:

Crappy

Problems:

Program Crashes, Program Hangs, Encoding Broken

Remote Name:

203.151.8.41

HTTP User Agent:

Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 4.0; .NET CLR 1.1.4322)

Date:

23 Nov 2003

Time:

09:40:14

Product_Comments

Site_And_Overall_DVD_Authoring_Comments

Name:

matthewcardall@hotmail.com

Product:

Microsoft Movie Maker

Other_Product_Not_In_List:

Score:

Crappy

Problems:

Remote Name:

217.44.18.189

HTTP User Agent:

Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; DigExt)

Date:

24 Nov 2003

Time:

15:51:13

Product_Comments

Site_And_Overall_DVD_Authoring_Comments

i would like 2 know if anyone knows how to burn avi files that are saved on to your harddrive , and how to burn the avi files to my dvd disks to work in my home dvd player wot software to use and wots the easy way to do it or even how to do it i will be gratefull if asnyonr knows can you reply asap thanx ( matthewcardall@hotmail.com)

Name:

guitarwhiz@hotmail.com

Product:

Pinnacle Studio 8

Other_Product_Not_In_List:

Score:

Poor

Problems:

Program Hangs, Capture Broken, Render Broken, Burn2DVD Broken

Remote Name:

24.0.106.121

HTTP User Agent:

Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; .NET CLR 1.1.4322)

Date:

30 Nov 2003

Time:

23:37:04

Product_Comments

help!!!

Site_And_Overall_DVD_Authoring_Comments

wish there was a machine that would take in DV in, and copy to DVD, quickly!!!! Thanks, Frustrated & Broke

Name:

Product:

Sonic MyDVD

Other_Product_Not_In_List:

Score:

Fair

Problems:

Remote Name:

66.66.193.124

HTTP User Agent:

Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1)

Date:

01 Dec 2003

Time:

02:21:13

Product_Comments

Site_And_Overall_DVD_Authoring_Comments

Name:

Product:

Sonic MyDVD

Other_Product_Not_In_List:

Score:

Excellent

Problems:

Render Audio OOS

Remote Name:

168.100.250.54

HTTP User Agent:

Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows 98; Q312461)

Date:

01 Dec 2003

Time:

08:08:30

Product_Comments

Site_And_Overall_DVD_Authoring_Comments

Name:

Product:

Pinnacle Studio 8

Other_Product_Not_In_List:

Score:

Fair

Problems:

Render Audio OOS

Remote Name:

24.225.221.75

HTTP User Agent:

Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; .NET CLR 1.0.3705)

Date:

06 Dec 2003

Time:

14:57:08

Product_Comments

Site_And_Overall_DVD_Authoring_Comments

Name:

Product:

Pinnacle Studio 8

Other_Product_Not_In_List:

Score:

<Select>

Problems:

Remote Name:

216.215.144.201

HTTP User Agent:

Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.0; T312461)

Date:

11 Dec 2003

Time:

12:37:32

Product_Comments

Site_And_Overall_DVD_Authoring_Comments

Name:

Product:

Pinnacle Studio 8

Other_Product_Not_In_List:

Score:

Poor

Problems:

Render Broken

Remote Name:

24.82.221.161

HTTP User Agent:

Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1)

Date:

24 Dec 2003

Time:

15:16:08

Product_Comments

stalls after 19 mins. od rendering

Site_And_Overall_DVD_Authoring_Comments

Name:

franklinfrank92@msn.com

Product:

Ulead Video Studio Pro v6

Other_Product_Not_In_List:

v7

Score:

Perfect!

Problems:

Program Crashes

Remote Name:

82.43.43.138

HTTP User Agent:

Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1)

Date:

01 Jan 2004

Time:

18:52:17

Product_Comments

some times videostudio crashes ...

Site_And_Overall_DVD_Authoring_Comments

ulead video is the best program i have used so fare

Name:

Björn Rump, b.rump@dplanet.ch

Product:

Magix Video Deluxe

Other_Product_Not_In_List:

Score:

Crappy

Problems:

Program Hangs

Remote Name:

62.167.53.25

HTTP User Agent:

Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows 98)

Date:

02 Jan 2004

Time:

15:58:41

Product_Comments

CAPTURE OK Cutting hangs, specially storyboard never could even start. Help besides the point

Site_And_Overall_DVD_Authoring_Comments

Teriffic aproach, specially if I get helpfull assistance ! Thanks

Name:

dumpthejunk@cox.net

Product:

Pinnacle Studio 8

Other_Product_Not_In_List:

Score:

Fair

Problems:

Render Broken

Remote Name:

68.10.162.180

HTTP User Agent:

Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; .NET CLR 1.0.3705; .NET CLR 1.1.4322)

Date:

05 Jan 2004

Time:

19:48:04

Product_Comments

Took 4.5 hours to render to an AVI file what took only 21 minutes in Microsoft Movie Maker 2

Site_And_Overall_DVD_Authoring_Comments

They look nice but getting capture, edit and render to work in a single program seems to be an impossible goal.

Name:

SteveL

Product:

Pinnacle Studio 8

Other_Product_Not_In_List:

Score:

Poor

Problems:

Render Audio OOS, Program Crashes, Program Hangs, Burn2DVD Broken

Remote Name:

24.223.136.38

HTTP User Agent:

Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; .NET CLR 1.1.4322)

Date:

05 Jan 2004

Time:

21:18:57

Product_Comments

I lost a lot of time with this product! Real potential, easy to use - but buggy and unstable. Really too bad. I've since switched to the Sonic Foundry/Sony editors: Screenblast Movie Studio, and Vegas 4.0. Movie Studio is a 'stripped down' version of Vegas, but has all a typical home editor needs. Money well spent! Vegas is a full semi-pro package with more power than I can use. No regrets with the Sony software!

Site_And_Overall_DVD_Authoring_Comments

I'm an amateur - but as a long time photographer, I appreciate quality video results. I'm enjoying success with Vegas 4.0+DVD. Much more than I can say with Pinnacle Studio 8. I'm mostly into travel/documentary type video and am learning the ins and outs of a real NLE. Steve

Name:

SteveL

Product:

Sony Screenblast

Other_Product_Not_In_List:

Score:

Good

Problems:

Remote Name:

24.223.136.38

HTTP User Agent:

Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; .NET CLR 1.1.4322)

Date:

05 Jan 2004

Time:

21:25:54

Product_Comments

Productive product just about right for the amateur videographer trying to improve the quality of his/her edits. A stable, reduced function version of the pro/semi-pro Vegas NLE, it contains just what you need to produce quality home videos, without the complexity of the full Vegas product. I highly recommend this over the buggy Pinnacle Studio 8!

Site_And_Overall_DVD_Authoring_Comments

Name:

SteveL

Product:

<Select One>

Other_Product_Not_In_List:

Sony Vegas 4.0+DVD

Score:

Excellent

Problems:

Remote Name:

24.223.136.38

HTTP User Agent:

Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; .NET CLR 1.1.4322)

Date:

05 Jan 2004

Time:

21:30:02

Product_Comments

A pro/semi-pro NLE with more power than I can currently use. Stable, productive, trouble free. I've read where others believe it's easier to use than Adobe Premiere, but I have no Adobe experience... Use the Sony Screenblast Movie Studio for most of the Vegas function at a substantially lower cost.

Site_And_Overall_DVD_Authoring_Comments

Name:

bulldog@redrock.net

Product:

Pinnacle Studio 8

Other_Product_Not_In_List:

Score:

Fair

Problems:

Program Crashes

Remote Name:

209.197.21.211

HTTP User Agent:

Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; .NET CLR 1.1.4322)

Date:

06 Jan 2004

Time:

20:21:13

Product_Comments

makeing menus sucks, and then they don't work and you end up wasting many DVD's I suggest that you buy DVD's +RW so you re-do the dodo

Site_And_Overall_DVD_Authoring_Comments

Thank you for your site, I have found it helpful and enlighting.

Name:

Product:

Pinnacle Studio 8

Other_Product_Not_In_List:

Liquid

Score:

<Select>

Problems:

Render Audio OOS, Program Crashes, Program Hangs

Remote Name:

156.34.158.27

HTTP User Agent:

Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows 98; Win 9x 4.90)

Date:

10 Jan 2004

Time:

15:59:00

Product_Comments

Site_And_Overall_DVD_Authoring_Comments

Name:

golftee

Product:

ArcSoft ShowBiz

Other_Product_Not_In_List:

Score:

Fair

Problems:

Program Hangs

Remote Name:

172.162.134.5

HTTP User Agent:

Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; .NET CLR 1.0.3705)

Date:

19 Jan 2004

Time:

14:36:40

Product_Comments

on large files (greater than 4gb)

Site_And_Overall_DVD_Authoring_Comments

Name:

golftee

Product:

ArcSoft ShowBiz

Other_Product_Not_In_List:

Score:

Poor

Problems:

Import Media Broken

Remote Name:

172.162.134.5

HTTP User Agent:

Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; .NET CLR 1.0.3705)

Date:

19 Jan 2004

Time:

14:39:45

Product_Comments

capturing..arcsoft gives you 3 options..mjpg1,mjpg2,& avi, chose avi and now cannot get back to mjpg

Site_And_Overall_DVD_Authoring_Comments

Name:

golftee

Product:

ArcSoft ShowBiz

Other_Product_Not_In_List:

Score:

Poor

Problems:

Burn2DVD Broken

Remote Name:

172.162.134.5

HTTP User Agent:

Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; .NET CLR 1.0.3705)

Date:

19 Jan 2004

Time:

14:43:42

Product_Comments

create dvd does not tell you how large your project is until you try to produce it, then its to late...4.7 gb max, can't split file have to re-make movie...

Site_And_Overall_DVD_Authoring_Comments

Name:

Product:

Pinnacle Studio 8

Other_Product_Not_In_List:

Score:

Fair

Problems:

Burn2DVD Broken

Remote Name:

157.191.2.17

HTTP User Agent:

Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.0; yie6; MCK IE; Mozilla/4.0 (Compatible; MSIE 6.0; Win; MCK))

Date:

21 Jan 2004

Time:

10:27:20

Product_Comments

Site_And_Overall_DVD_Authoring_Comments

Name:

Product:

Pinnacle Studio 8

Other_Product_Not_In_List:

Score:

Poor

Problems:

Program Crashes

Remote Name:

24.145.135.81

HTTP User Agent:

Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; .NET CLR 1.0.3705)

Date:

24 Jan 2004

Time:

17:49:15

Product_Comments

Capture and editing are flawless. I loved the product until I attempted to render and write it to disk. The program crashes. Causes a fatal error on my HP735 with AMD processor. It is the only program I have ever loaded that ALWAYS crashes during the rendering process. Pinnacle has yet to come up with a fix.

Site_And_Overall_DVD_Authoring_Comments

Name:

Product:

Sonic MyDVD

Other_Product_Not_In_List:

Score:

Perfect!

Problems:

Remote Name:

64.136.26.225

HTTP User Agent:

Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows 98; Win 9x 4.90)

Date:

27 Jan 2004

Time:

18:05:13

Product_Comments

very good

Site_And_Overall_DVD_Authoring_Comments

Name:

Wurstnase

Product:

Pinnacle Studio 8

Other_Product_Not_In_List:

Score:

Poor

Problems:

Program Crashes, Program Hangs, Render Broken, Burn2DVD Broken

Remote Name:

62.104.222.64

HTTP User Agent:

Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; Q312461)

Date:

14 Feb 2004

Time:

04:58:13

Product_Comments

Unable to produce a DVD with Studio 8. Programs crashes every 5 minutes.

Site_And_Overall_DVD_Authoring_Comments

Name:

Product:

Pinnacle Expression

Other_Product_Not_In_List:

Score:

<Select>

Problems:

Remote Name:

24.190.116.133

HTTP User Agent:

Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1)

Date:

17 Feb 2004

Time:

15:22:57

Product_Comments

Site_And_Overall_DVD_Authoring_Comments

Name:

Product:

Pinnacle Studio 8

Other_Product_Not_In_List:

Score:

Poor

Problems:

Program Crashes, Program Hangs, Render Broken, Burn2DVD Broken

Remote Name:

200.106.76.246

HTTP User Agent:

Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1)

Date:

19 Feb 2004

Time:

10:53:29

Product_Comments

Site_And_Overall_DVD_Authoring_Comments

I hate when i spent over two hours editing a video and suddenly the program dissapears... i usually have to do this 3 or 4 times per video... i really like its user interface, but i hate the problems and bugs of the program... can you believe i still can make a DVD with this program??? i buy the software a year ago...

Name:

Product:

Pinnacle Studio 8

Other_Product_Not_In_List:

Score:

Excellent

Problems:

Render Audio OOS

Remote Name:

213.122.210.230

HTTP User Agent:

Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; VNIE60; YPC 3.0.2)

Date:

20 Feb 2004

Time:

14:43:46

Product_Comments

Site_And_Overall_DVD_Authoring_Comments

Name:

Product:

<Select One>

Other_Product_Not_In_List:

Score:

<Select>

Problems:

Burn2DVD Broken

Remote Name:

24.158.55.230

HTTP User Agent:

Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1)

Date:

28 Feb 2004

Time:

11:47:41

Product_Comments

Site_And_Overall_DVD_Authoring_Comments

Name:

Product:

Pinnacle Studio 8

Other_Product_Not_In_List:

Score:

Crappy

Problems:

Capture Audio OOS

Remote Name:

68.161.42.156

HTTP User Agent:

Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; Q312461)

Date:

04 Mar 2004

Time:

22:12:07

Product_Comments

Site_And_Overall_DVD_Authoring_Comments

Name:

Product:

Ulead DVD Workshop

Other_Product_Not_In_List:

Score:

Excellent

Problems:

Remote Name:

67.9.56.48

HTTP User Agent:

Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows 98; Win 9x 4.90; Roadrunner)

Date:

25 Mar 2004

Time:

09:14:49

Product_Comments

Site_And_Overall_DVD_Authoring_Comments

Name:

Product:

Adobe Premiere

Other_Product_Not_In_List:

Score:

Perfect!

Problems:

Remote Name:

67.167.177.243

HTTP User Agent:

Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1)

Date:

26 Mar 2004

Time:

22:56:40

Product_Comments

Site_And_Overall_DVD_Authoring_Comments

Name:

Product:

Pinnacle Studio 8

Other_Product_Not_In_List:

Score:

Poor

Problems:

Program Crashes

Remote Name:

211.28.172.207

HTTP User Agent:

Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1)

Date:

30 Mar 2004

Time:

12:13:59

Product_Comments

Site_And_Overall_DVD_Authoring_Comments

Name:

Product:

Pinnacle Studio 8

Other_Product_Not_In_List:

Score:

<Select>

Problems:

Render Broken

Remote Name:

24.29.172.172

HTTP User Agent:

Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.0)

Date:

01 Apr 2004

Time:

10:24:37

Product_Comments

Site_And_Overall_DVD_Authoring_Comments

Name:

Product:

Pinnacle Expression

Other_Product_Not_In_List:

Score:

Excellent

Problems:

Remote Name:

68.98.112.52

HTTP User Agent:

Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1)

Date:

08 Apr 2004

Time:

15:46:17

Product_Comments

can t delete old projects

Site_And_Overall_DVD_Authoring_Comments

Name:

Product:

Sonic MyDVD

Other_Product_Not_In_List:

Score:

<Select>

Problems:

Remote Name:

68.230.51.66

HTTP User Agent:

Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; .NET CLR 1.0.3705; .NET CLR 1.1.4322)

Date:

10 Apr 2004

Time:

13:00:59

Product_Comments

Site_And_Overall_DVD_Authoring_Comments

Name:

Product:

ArcSoft ShowBiz

Other_Product_Not_In_List:

Score:

<Select>

Problems:

Capture Audio OOS

Remote Name:

64.39.181.14

HTTP User Agent:

Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.0; T312461; .NET CLR 1.0.3705)

Date:

22 Apr 2004

Time:

13:50:35

Product_Comments

Audio started out OK but quickly became out of sync with the video and stayed that way

Site_And_Overall_DVD_Authoring_Comments

Name:

Product:

Microsoft Movie Maker

Other_Product_Not_In_List:

Score:

Good

Problems:

Remote Name:

66.131.98.170

HTTP User Agent:

Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; .NET CLR 1.1.4322)

Date:

23 Apr 2004

Time:

00:12:20

Product_Comments

Site_And_Overall_DVD_Authoring_Comments

Name:

Product:

Sonic MyDVD

Other_Product_Not_In_List:

Score:

Good

Problems:

Render Audio OOS

Remote Name:

67.83.169.214

HTTP User Agent:

Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; .NET CLR 1.1.4322)

Date:

01 May 2004

Time:

12:58:14

Product_Comments

Site_And_Overall_DVD_Authoring_Comments

Name:

Product:

Pinnacle Studio 8

Other_Product_Not_In_List:

Score:

Poor

Problems:

Render Audio OOS

Remote Name:

24.21.190.254

HTTP User Agent:

Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1)

Date:

11 May 2004

Time:

15:36:41

Product_Comments

out of synch and crashes galore

Site_And_Overall_DVD_Authoring_Comments

Name:

Product:

ULead PictureShow

Other_Product_Not_In_List:

Score:

Crappy

Problems:

Program Crashes

Remote Name:

217.123.164.44

HTTP User Agent:

Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; .NET CLR 1.1.4322)

Date:

24 May 2004

Time:

15:48:02

Product_Comments

Site_And_Overall_DVD_Authoring_Comments

Name:

Product:

TMPGEnc

Other_Product_Not_In_List:

Score:

Fair

Problems:

Capture Audio OOS

Remote Name:

69.76.183.9

HTTP User Agent:

Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1)

Date:

08 Jun 2004

Time:

19:44:58

Product_Comments

Site_And_Overall_DVD_Authoring_Comments

Name:

Product:

Sonic MyDVD

Other_Product_Not_In_List:

Score:

Crappy

Problems:

Program Crashes

Remote Name:

216.106.105.3

HTTP User Agent:

Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.0; Windows XP) Opera 6.03 [en]

Date:

16 Jun 2004

Time:

19:30:02

Product_Comments

captures green and pink thats all

Site_And_Overall_DVD_Authoring_Comments

Name:

Product:

Adobe Premiere

Other_Product_Not_In_List:

impression-pro

Score:

Fair

Problems:

Program Hangs

Remote Name:

194.73.99.90

HTTP User Agent:

Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.0; .NET CLR 1.1.4322)

Date:

23 Jun 2004

Time:

01:13:00

Product_Comments

Site_And_Overall_DVD_Authoring_Comments

Name:

Product:

Pinnacle Studio 8

Other_Product_Not_In_List:

Score:

Crappy

Problems:

Program Crashes, Program Hangs, Render Broken

Remote Name:

157.145.220.9

HTTP User Agent:

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040614 Firefox/0.9

Date:

30 Jun 2004

Time:

16:43:53

Product_Comments

looks so very very nice, but the program sucks; constant lock ups and crashes to the point that its worthless.

Site_And_Overall_DVD_Authoring_Comments

Name:

be5hasty@hotsheet.com

Product:

Pinnacle Studio 8

Other_Product_Not_In_List:

Score:

<Select>

Problems:

Program Crashes

Remote Name:

24.148.140.216

HTTP User Agent:

Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; .NET CLR 1.0.3705)

Date:

05 Jul 2004

Time:

11:07:18

Product_Comments

Bad news

Site_And_Overall_DVD_Authoring_Comments

Name:

Product:

Pinnacle Studio 8

Other_Product_Not_In_List:

Score:

Good

Problems:

Render Audio OOS

Remote Name:

81.168.0.127

HTTP User Agent:

Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; .NET CLR 1.0.3705)

Date:

24 Jul 2004

Time:

05:59:07

Product_Comments

Terrible Out of Sync problem rendering my recordings. Wasted DVDs because of this not to mention many hours of my time editing my videos and have to start again when I find another product that doesn't have this problem.

Site_And_Overall_DVD_Authoring_Comments

Name:

Product:

<Select One>

Other_Product_Not_In_List:

iMovie and iDVD

Score:

Perfect!

Problems:

Remote Name:

4.65.232.233

HTTP User Agent:

Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X; en-us) AppleWebKit/125.2 (KHTML, like Gecko) Safari/125.8

Date:

27 Jul 2004

Time:

20:39:15

Product_Comments

Fully-integrated, free with iMac, works perfect.

Site_And_Overall_DVD_Authoring_Comments

No problems, whatsoever. No book needed. Powerful and easy to use right from the get-go. Using iMovie, iPhoto and iDVD with my iMac 800 with a 2x DVD burner.

Name:

jcor

Product:

Pinnacle Studio 8

Other_Product_Not_In_List:

studio 9

Score:

Poor

Problems:

Render Audio OOS, Program Crashes, Program Hangs, Encoding Quality Poor, Render Broken, Encoding Broken, Burn2DVD Broken

Remote Name:

172.128.103.60

HTTP User Agent:

Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1)

Date:

28 Jul 2004

Time:

23:56:47

Product_Comments

This technical support tends to blame faulty computer hardware ie drive speed and processor, and suggest adding hard drives before acknowledging the product is buggy

Site_And_Overall_DVD_Authoring_Comments

Name:

twwiltel@hotmail.com

Product:

<Select One>

Other_Product_Not_In_List:

Pinnacle 9

Score:

Crappy

Problems:

Burn2DVD Broken

Remote Name:

gateway.wcg.com

HTTP User Agent:

Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; Q312461; .NET CLR 1.1.4322)

Date:

11 Aug 2004

Time:

17:11:34

Product_Comments

hangs in make movie mode.

Site_And_Overall_DVD_Authoring_Comments

Name:

Product:

Pinnacle Studio 8

Other_Product_Not_In_List:

Score:

Good

Problems:

Render Audio OOS, Encoding Quality Poor

Remote Name:

128.120.132.230

HTTP User Agent:

Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1)

Date:

02 Sep 2004

Time:

10:45:57

Product_Comments

Site_And_Overall_DVD_Authoring_Comments

I've done mostly small projects, maybe an hour long video to DVD. But when I've tried to convert a 3-hour TV movie from VHS to DVD, the audio becomes out of sync with the video about 25 minutes in. MULTIPLE TIMES attempts, same thing. I've put that project aside in frustration.

Name:

Product:

ULead DVD Movie Factory

Other_Product_Not_In_List:

Score:

Good

Problems:

Render Audio OOS

Remote Name:

hnllhi1-ar7-4-7-219-058.hnllhi1.dsl-verizon.net

HTTP User Agent:

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.2) Gecko/20040804 Netscape/7.2 (ax)

Date:

06 Sep 2004

Time:

19:55:08

Product_Comments

Site_And_Overall_DVD_Authoring_Comments

Name:

Product:

ArcSoft ShowBiz

Other_Product_Not_In_List:

Score:

<Select>

Problems:

Remote Name:

ool-18bc1009.dyn.optonline.net

HTTP User Agent:

Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; SV1)

Date:

14 Sep 2004

Time:

23:45:29

Product_Comments

Site_And_Overall_DVD_Authoring_Comments

Name:

Product:

Adobe Premiere

Other_Product_Not_In_List:

Score:

Good

Problems:

Program Crashes

Remote Name:

prdlab01.rutgers.edu

HTTP User Agent:

Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; SV1; .NET CLR 1.0.3705; .NET CLR 1.1.4322)

Date:

16 Sep 2004

Time:

11:43:45

Product_Comments

Site_And_Overall_DVD_Authoring_Comments

Name:

Product:

Pinnacle Expression

Other_Product_Not_In_List:

Score:

<Select>

Problems:

Program Crashes

Remote Name:

as2-4-1.hota.or.bonet.se

HTTP User Agent:

Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1)

Date:

23 Sep 2004

Time:

13:16:38

Product_Comments

Site_And_Overall_DVD_Authoring_Comments

Name:

Product:

ULead DVD Movie Factory

Other_Product_Not_In_List:

Score:

<Select>

Problems:

Remote Name:

69.156.127.252

HTTP User Agent:

Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; Rogers Hi-Speed Internet; .NET CLR 1.0.3705)

Date:

24 Sep 2004

Time:

00:40:40

Product_Comments

Site_And_Overall_DVD_Authoring_Comments

Name:

Product:

Pinnacle Studio 8

Other_Product_Not_In_List:

Score:

Poor

Problems:

Capture Audio OOS

Remote Name:

adsl-065-013-061-215.sip.mia.bellsouth.net

HTTP User Agent:

Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; SV1)

Date:

07 Oct 2004

Time:

20:22:51

Product_Comments

Site_And_Overall_DVD_Authoring_Comments

Name:

mike@peters-mail.org

Product:

Pinnacle Studio 8

Other_Product_Not_In_List:

Score:

Poor

Problems:

Remote Name:

213.42.2.10

HTTP User Agent:

Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; Q312461; Hotbar 4.3.5.0; SV1)

Date:

10 Oct 2004

Time:

11:53:03

Product_Comments

still have never made one successfully

Site_And_Overall_DVD_Authoring_Comments

I've still never succeeded ... VCDs yes, but DVDs no

Name:

Product:

Dazzle DVD Complete

Other_Product_Not_In_List:

Score:

Poor

Problems:

Burn2DVD Broken

Remote Name:

rdu74-180-030.nc.rr.com

HTTP User Agent:

Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1)

Date:

20 Oct 2004

Time:

00:02:08

Product_Comments

Site_And_Overall_DVD_Authoring_Comments

Name:

Product:

Ulead DVD Workshop

Other_Product_Not_In_List:

Score:

Good

Problems:

Render Audio OOS

Remote Name:

host81-152-123-49.range81-152.btcentralplus.com

HTTP User Agent:

Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; BT Openworld BB; SV1)

Date:

30 Oct 2004

Time:

08:30:35

Product_Comments

Site_And_Overall_DVD_Authoring_Comments

Name:

Torc

Product:

Sonic MyDVD

Other_Product_Not_In_List:

Score:

Excellent

Problems:

Remote Name:

host-69-95-73-22.ind.choiceone.net

HTTP User Agent:

Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; .NET CLR 1.1.4322)

Date:

11 Nov 2004

Time:

12:41:59

Product_Comments

Site_And_Overall_DVD_Authoring_Comments

Name:

Product:

Pinnacle Studio 8

Other_Product_Not_In_List:

Score:

<Select>

Problems:

Program Hangs

Remote Name:

h000d87231a3a.ne.client2.attbi.com

HTTP User Agent:

Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; SV1; .NET CLR 1.1.4322)

Date:

14 Nov 2004

Time:

19:24:53

Product_Comments

Site_And_Overall_DVD_Authoring_Comments

Name:

Product:

Pinnacle Studio 8

Other_Product_Not_In_List:

Score:

Crappy

Problems:

Program Hangs

Remote Name:

216.28.196.110

HTTP User Agent:

Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; SV1; .NET CLR 1.1.4322)

Date:

16 Nov 2004

Time:

11:59:10

Product_Comments

Site_And_Overall_DVD_Authoring_Comments

Name:

Product:

ArcSoft ShowBiz

Other_Product_Not_In_List:

Score:

<Select>

Problems:

Program Crashes

Remote Name:

c-24-12-90-192.client.comcast.net

HTTP User Agent:

Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows 98; .NET CLR 1.1.4322)

Date:

22 Nov 2004

Time:

14:06:09

Product_Comments

Site_And_Overall_DVD_Authoring_Comments

Name:

Product:

<Select One>

Other_Product_Not_In_List:

Score:

<Select>

Problems:

Capture Audio OOS

Remote Name:

host-131-239-44-140.customer.veroxity.net

HTTP User Agent:

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041107 Firefox/1.0

Date:

09 Dec 2004

Time:

17:09:04

Product_Comments

Site_And_Overall_DVD_Authoring_Comments

Name:

Product:

Pinnacle Studio 8

Other_Product_Not_In_List:

Score:

<Select>

Problems:

Capture Audio OOS, Render Audio OOS

Remote Name:

69.49.205.68.cfl.rr.com

HTTP User Agent:

Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; SV1; .NET CLR 1.1.4322)

Date:

14 Dec 2004

Time:

08:56:15

Product_Comments

Site_And_Overall_DVD_Authoring_Comments

Name:

Product:

TMPGEnc

Other_Product_Not_In_List:

Score:

Fair

Problems:

Capture Audio OOS, Render Audio OOS

Remote Name:

dialup-4.156.186.206.dial1.boston1.level3.net

HTTP User Agent:

Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1)

Date:

19 Dec 2004

Time:

19:14:51

Product_Comments

Site_And_Overall_DVD_Authoring_Comments

Name:

Product:

Dazzle DVD Complete

Other_Product_Not_In_List:

Score:

Crappy

Problems:

Burn2DVD Broken

Remote Name:

watf-cache-2.server.ntli.net

HTTP User Agent:

Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; SV1; .NET CLR 1.0.3705)

Date:

01 Jan 2005

Time:

12:39:10

Product_Comments

Site_And_Overall_DVD_Authoring_Comments

Name:

Product:

ArcSoft ShowBiz

Other_Product_Not_In_List:

Score:

Fair

Problems:

Capture Audio OOS

Remote Name:

proxy2.southcom.com.au

HTTP User Agent:

Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1)

Date:

03 Jan 2005

Time:

04:51:22

Product_Comments

There is little support from Arc Soft

Site_And_Overall_DVD_Authoring_Comments

Site seems to adopt a cooperative approach to problem solving

Name:

Product:

ULead DVD Movie Factory

Other_Product_Not_In_List:

Score:

Poor

Problems:

Render Audio OOS

Remote Name:

adsl-69-104-141-196.dsl.pltn13.pacbell.net

HTTP User Agent:

Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; .NET CLR 1.1.4322)

Date:

07 Jan 2005

Time:

00:56:43

Product_Comments

Site_And_Overall_DVD_Authoring_Comments

Name:

MazingEvil

Product:

Ulead DVD Workshop

Other_Product_Not_In_List:

Score:

Excellent

Problems:

Remote Name:

fmcphlfwob-cluster.fmc.com

HTTP User Agent:

Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.0; .NET CLR 1.0.3705)

Date:

10 Jan 2005

Time:

22:49:55