DVD recorder to Pinnacle Studio to new DVD?
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Pinnacle Studio is geared at very amateur video work, and it is designed to do the capturing, editing and encoding all in one program. While this can work for some workflows, it's not going to work too well with your DVD recorder source videos. You'll likely lose quality, because I'm pretty sure it will insist on re-encoding your whole video. And to be honest, Pinnacle's MPEG encoding quality is pretty dismal. A better choice would be Womble MPEG Video Wizard, although it does cost $99 (I wish they still had a $49 non-DVD version of MVW). If you're only making very basic cuts, no effects, the the $19 Womble MPEG-VCR works. The Womble tools are MPEg editors -- they do not re-encode the video, only export the good parts. Only areas with added effects (fades, wipes, etc) get re-encoded. You could probably get MPEG-VCR to work for you, if $100 is too much. otherwise, I'd go for MPEG Video Wizard. A free 15- or 30-day trial is available, so you can knock out a project or two, to see how you like it. The current Womble MVW also does authoring. If you can spare another $50, consider the amazingly cheap offer currently going on for the professional Ulead DVDWS. More on that at: http://www.digitalfaq.com/forum/show...shop-2117.html Hope this helps, feel free to ask more questions.. :)
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