DVD Authoring software suggestions

[andris]

I have just upgraded to Win7 64 and now find that the DVD authoring program I use isn't happy. Consequently I am looking for suggestions for a suitable replacement.

The DVD menu structure I am after is extremely simple :

a/. One Main menu listing multiple titles
b/. Titles are chaptered
c/. No sub-menus listing chapters.

I was able to make this simplest of menus with Ulead's "DVD Workshop 2" which now needs replacing.

Tried "DVD MovieFactory 7" and the authoring function within Edius 5.12 and found both programs automatically create sub-menus for the chapters and there seems no way to stop this happening.

I really liked DVD Workshop and it's key features important to me were :

a/. easily create menu components & navigation structures
b/. no re-encoding of mpeg compliant files ["SmartRender"], making for very fast DVD image creation.
c/. Title audio level is adjustable ( attenuate / amplify ) and
d/. if a Title's audio is adjusted, only the audio track is re-encoded, making for rapid re-encoding of the mpeg file.

Considering the above, can anyone recommend a DVD authoring program that is Win7 64 compatible and has the above features?

[Jerry]

Go to the tmpge website. I think they have an authoring
package you might use. As far as the audio....I don't know.
The audio level adjustment might be the kicker. I am hoping
for that in Encore CS5.
Google DVD authoring programs and see what you get.
Also search on this forum for the same.

[andris]

Thanks for the suggestion to look at TMPG.

Can anyone confirm that SmartRender works well with it.

[ With DVDWS2 files created in Edius work perfectly without the need to do anything at all, being automatically detected as compliant regardless of Edius compression settings. ]

[Bluetongue]

Yes agree with Jerry
Try TEMPGenc Author Works 4 available from below

http://tmpgenc.pegasys-inc.com/en/product/taw4.html

The menu structure can be a little daunting when making a custom one but it works well and it takes separate Video and Audio or combined with no re-encoding of the video

Have not tried on 64 bit as yet but works OK on 32 bit Win 7 and does not re encode correct source material
Regards Barry

[SoundFreak]

MF7 does allow you to switch OFF the chapter menus after it creates it first.
Not sure if you can set this as default, but as you only want simple menus MF7 should provide what you are looking for.

As I got rid of this toy like software I can't give you a step by step run through, but somewhere in the middle of the menu page you can select in a sub menu DO NOT CREATE CHAPTER MENUS, anything in ulead software never works as you want it, but at least this anoying feature you can switch off, I was never be able to find to set this as default.

If you want more control over what you want and especialy what you don't want take a look at DVD architect, very capable software.

[antonsvideo]

if you are only authoring DVD, then I highly recommend DVDLab Pro

[rob stowell]

ditto for dvdlab pro. (even the 'basic' version dvdlab is very good)
i don't think there's any way of adjusting volume (but that's pretty simple to do with another programme.)
simple jobs are a breeze. if you want to get complicated, the programme goes very deep.

[Harro]

DVDLab Pro is/was an excellent authoring program. Be aware though that it only does SD, the current version has numerous bugs and that there has been no update or bug fix for about a year. It unfortunately seems to have been totally abandoned by its producer.

[antonsvideo]

Originally Posted by Harro

DVDLab Pro is/was an excellent authoring program. Be aware though that it only does SD, the current version has numerous bugs and that there has been no update or bug fix for about a year. It unfortunately seems to have been totally abandoned by its producer.

I don't know about bus, they have not bitten me yet

and I send at least two jobs per week for glass master replication and they are never rejected

there is no other authoring software under $50,000 that does as much as DVDLab Pro

[RonnieMartin]

Hey Anton What do you use for Blu Ray authoring?

Ronnie