Adobe Encore for both Mac and PC.
i find it hilarious that i was looking for a goo dvd authoring app when i had encore all along.. thanks for the reminder..
Adobe Encore for both Mac and PC.
I bought FCS3 a few months ago for my work system. You have to call Apple and order it specifically through them.
I'm sure you could find a copy of FCS 1 or 2 on eBay for cheap. DVD SP has been at version 4 since '05. The only possible problem is if you are running Lion then the older installers won't work, but if you are running Snow Leopard (or earlier) you should be fine.I heard about that. But I'm not going to pay 1000 euros for a DVD authoring program (the only thing I'm gonna use from FCS). As you can see in the last post, I'm struggling with spending 500 on the whole Adobe suite... I'm just a poor PhD student with an expensive hobby...
But in general you are right, they do sell FCS, just not DVD SP individually.
I'm sure you could find a copy of FCS 1 or 2 on eBay for cheap. DVD SP has been at version 4 since '05. The only possible problem is if you are running Lion then the older installers won't work, but if you are running Snow Leopard (or earlier) you should be fine.
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Wow that's really dating back for me Funny you mentioned Creator. We just moved our dept to another building and I had the pleasure of throwing away all the recyclables in this case a ton of Adobe manuals and a set of Sonic DVD Creator ones.One of the big reasons why DVD authoring programs haven't changed in years is that the DVD spec hasn't changed. In fact, I do most of my DVD authoring on a Sonic Creator system running on OS9...
Wow that's really dating back for me Funny you mentioned Creator. We just moved our dept to another building and I had the pleasure of throwing away all the recyclables in this case a ton of Adobe manuals and a set of Sonic DVD Creator ones.
I used it for a few years but it held us back with Motion menus and other tidbits that was easily replaced by DVD Studio Pro (at the time).
I do have to agree that Sonics real time encoder was by far the best.
Compressor SUX for MPEG2 encodes. It does a lot of other things quite well, but DVDs compressed at anything less than wide open look like poop with lots of artifacts.
Wait wait when did you get $6 DVDs? Crap the DVD-A we're almost $30 each when I was doing itOh, you mean back when half the DVDs you burned turned out to be coasters and would only play on a handful of the DVD players on the market? At a whopping $6 per DVD. Yeah, those were the days... haha.
For DVDs we used BitVice.Is there an alternative program or process that you'd recommend for creating mpeg-2?
How so?Helpful thread.
On iDVD, I am getting better design results than the guys I hire with DVD SP. I'd rather not buy and learn DVD SP for obvious reasons if I like the looks and functionality I'm achieving with the. No-frills iDVD.
To clarify - iDVD templates are enough for me - I can work layout magic on the menu to suit my taste and the application. I don't need to alter template design.
My question remains - should I have qualms going to manufacturing from an iDVD master? Am I missing something, if my local laptop/dvd player tests all work fine?
I see that Final Cut Pro X authors menus, etc. and I'd be open to upgrade if necessary.
Lightpeak (aka Thunderbolt) is from intel, not Apple. IEEE 1394a was developed by a consortium, not just by Apple (and it might have taken off more if Apple did charge high fees for the FireWire name). After a decade of plummeting CD sales digital downloads have finally, by 0.3%, outsold CD sales in the US (vinyl is having record breaking sales btw).
Apple stopped developing DVD SP because it doesn't fit in their version of reality (not to mention that Blu-ray is a competitor to the iTMS) and, unfortunately, Apple's version of reality isn't always, well, real. Questions about authoring apps come up all the time on many of the forums I go to. Posting a video on YT or sending someone a small H.264 file via YouSendIt doesn't always fit the bill for what people need or want.
You might want to take your own advice and open your eyes because the world is a bigger place than just Apple's walled garden.
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Apple stopped them because it tries to stay ahead of the curve not behind. Thunderbolt (just like Firewire years ago) was a year or two ahead of its time. Steve Jobs believed correctly that DVD's are going to go the way of VHS, CD's, 8-tracks. Those of us who still like DVD's, such as myself, can keep making great DVD's with DVDSP. It still is a great program, but you have to be blind to not see that DVD's will be extinct very soon. The internet and the Cloud are the future, (maybe even Apple TV who knows what they have in store with that at this point in time). DVD's are so limited in their size and their durability. Open your eyes.