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3.2 Medium Priced Commercial Products
If you can afford couple of hundred bucks then do yourself a favor by buying some great
software products. Commercial software products do save you a lot of time in many ways.
First they tend to integrate the functionality of the workflow into a single application and
they tend to be more stable then their free counterparts. Although this is debatable, the
quality of the DVD created is usually better.
Look for the software pack that comes with your digital camcorder first. There is pretty
good chance you already possess some basic software for DVD capturing, editing, and
authoring. Sonic MyDVD is the most common DVD authoring software that bundles with
digital camcorders.
With over hundreds of software products you can choose, it is very easy to get lost. It is my
intention here to clarify the uncertainty and fit them to our workflow. It will be a big
mistake to buy an editing software then find it cannot do authoring.
The software products I choose to write about are from the following companies
Manufacturer Product Price Capturing Editing Encoding Authoring Mastering
Adobe
Premiere
1.5 Pro
$699.99
Premiere 1.5 is an XP only software. You can use it for
capturing, editing, and encoding. If your DVD does not
have interactive menus, you can also use Premiere 1.5
Pro to burn the DVD directly from the timeline. The
selling point of Premiere is its editing capability. If
you can afford to have After Effect, another piece of
Adobe software costs about $ 999, you can create