DVD Writers

DVD Writers have become somewhat of an irritation for me over the last few weeks.  Namely, the inability of any of the “popular” DVD Authoring products to produce any audio at all, when the project is complete.

I use a nice Canon ZR-20 Mini-DV Camcorder, along with Adobe Premiere 6.5, to produce professional looking video productions.  I always create an .AVI file in Raw DV format as the final output.  It is never a problem to convert this into any other format, such as DivX, Windows Media, etc.

…Until I tried to make a DVD out of it.

I tried MyDVD, TMPGenc DVD Author, _____, and NOTHING, I mean NOTHING I tried produced any output in the AUDIO_TS directory.  After previewing the DVD Image file with Windows Media Player?  As you might expect, absolutely no frickin’ audio.

The program that actually works?

Roxio Easy Media Creator 7.  It doesn’t do as good of job encoding MPEG-2 as TMPGEnc Plus/Xpress does, but as far as authoring goes, I haven’t found anything easier to create titles, menus, and do simple editing on a video production.  Not only that, but it burns well on a LaCie External Firewire DVD+R DVD Burner.

A big thumbs up to Roxio 7!

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