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System Requirements
- Platform: Windows NT / 98 / 2000 / Me / XP
- Media: CD-ROM
- Item Quantity: 1
Product Features
- Professional Design Tools for Still and Motion Menus
- Advanced MPEG Capture and Conversion Tools
- Template-driven Authoring OR Customized Production
- Total Creation and Playback Control
- Full Support for the Latest DVD & CD Writers
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Product Description
Amazon.co.uk Review
Easy to use DVD creation software that does everything from capturing video to burning the disc, DVD Workshop helps you turn video into a complete DVD title--but it's the extra features you're paying for.
You can't get confused with DVD Workshop; rather than a drop-down menu there's a toolbar of the different stages in creating your DVD, from selecting the opening image that plays when you pop the DVD into a DVD player, through capturing and editing your video (or building slideshows of still images), to designing the menu and burning the disc. Capturing video is simple, although there are plenty of options for changing the settings and encoding if you need too. Editing is also simple; you can trim the beginnings and ends of clips, join multiple clips into one video and mark the different scenes in a clip to show up in the menu as separate chapters. You can make a slideshow of still images, although the interface is a little confusing here; you need to add all the images as a single video clip in the timeline and then arrange them in the separate chapter timeline.
The tools for building the menu are very flexible; you can use one of the templates and alter it or start with a blank page and add a background image (which can be animated), text or image buttons (again, they can be animated), background music and standard buttons to start playing the video or jump between different levels of the menu. You get more choice over text settings than in many packages; you can choose the font, point-size and colour or add special effects such as ice and flame. There's a chance to try the menu out before you burn your disc. And you have the choice of sticking with the standard templates for burning different types of disc (DVD, Video CD and SVCD) or picking your own settings for video resolution and bit rate.
In general, the interface is friendly and helpful, although buttons for choosing settings can be tucked away in corners. Once you understand the timelines and video controls you can put together exactly the footage you want. Having to work full screen with no option to resize the application window can be intrusive, but, all in all, DVD Workshop gives you a combination of features you could pay many times more for in other packages. --Mary Branscombe
Computeractive, December 2002, p22
Overall rating: 4 out of 5 stars "One of the better DVD authoring applications we have seen".
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24 of 24 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Best product in an evolving market,
This review is from: DVD Workshop (CD-ROM)
As we speak, IMHO this is by far the best DVD Writing software avaible sub £800.Following the usual ULEAD style, its very easy to get into, requiring only the occasional glance at the manual. It allows you to create DVD's using the most popular writers available (Ricoh, Sony, Pioneer etc), and actually makes the process enjoyable, rather than the pain inducing process I was used to with other competing systems. You can either grab your footage from within the package, or like me allows you to import DV/AVI footage either from another application (e.g Premiere - in which case it carries out the MPEG2 compression later), or import the compressed (finalised) footage directly. Following a quick test you leave it for an hour or so while it creates the MPEG2 files (if not already in this format), and following this it creates the disk image and burns it onto the dvd. Simple. It's chapter selection, menu's (including motion) are excellent, and apart from it not handling AC3/DD 5.1 its perfect.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:
2.0 out of 5 stars
Powerful and versatile, but unreliable,
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This review is from: DVD Workshop (CD-ROM)
I've tried most of the DVD authoring packages on the market today. So far, DVD Workshop is the only one I've found which can provide the versatility I need. Its menu wizards can create the simple title-and-6-thumbnails layout so popular with other packages, but the menu editor allows you to create any layout you can imagine. The capture and editing capabilities are also impressive, allowing easy addition of chapter marks, or creating slideshows effortlessly.On the negative side, it can't handle files with subtitles, multiple audio tracks or multiple angles. And it crashes more often than any other application I've ever seen. These problems are all fixed in version 2, which is in my opinion the only choice for serious DVD work. Unfortunately, amazon does not appear to stock this product yet.
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