DVD creator?

[dewwars]

Is there any good programs out there that has the same concept as Super DVD Creator? Looking to put avi, wmv, mpg etc together on a dvd to play on a dvd player with a menu creator as well?

[drfsupercenter]

Nero can do that

[dewwars]

I have Nero and I don't see any way to make a dvd menu

[idontno]

Is there any good programs out there that has the same concept as Super DVD Creator? Looking to put avi, wmv, mpg etc together on a dvd to play on a dvd player with a menu creator as well?

Windows Movie Maker will make menus and Nero Vision will convert to DVD.


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[dewwars]

Alright I upgraded my NeroVision! Found out that you can make a DVD Menu with this now!
Now my problem is that when I am running NeroVision just at random points the whole program turns off!

[gonwk]

dewwars,

What version of Nero are you using?

G!

[idontno]

Alright I upgraded my NeroVision! Found out that you can make a DVD Menu with this now!
Now my problem is that when I am running NeroVision just at random points the whole program turns off!

You are not running a skinning prog are you (like WindowBlinds)? I am and Nero doesn't like it at all. I had to exclude all Nero progs from being skinned.

I just upgraded to the latest version of Nero 7 Ultra Edition. I think the ver of NeroVision is 4.7.0.9.


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[dewwars]

Not running anything else!
Ok I still need to upgrade! I see how you can upgrade to Nero Ultra 7 but I can't find how to upgrade NeroVision?

of getting 7 will upgrade it all?

[idontno]

Yes, Nero 7 Ultra Edition has all the progs...Nero Burning Rom, Nero Express, NeroVision, Nero Wave Editor, Nero Showtime, Nero Recode, ect.


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[gonwk]

Hi Idotno,

I have "Nero7 Ultra" and when I installed it to replace my Nero 6.6.14 latest version (which I was totally happy with) ... it kind of acted like "Microsoft" and it took over every darn application in my computer.

I personally like using WinDVD to playback my DVDs and "Hate" Nero Media Player "Bulky" and unresponsive control. Also, I love using Window Media Player to play me CD's ... so when NERO7 just took over It pee'd me off anf I removed it ... however, now I had whole bunch of documents with "No Association" tags ... what a darn mess ... so I had to go to every darn application and manually select the application to open with ... and that was a mess. It also Crashed my Microsoft Office Applications ... Thanks God to XP "safe Mode" retreat ... I took myself back few days and I was back in business.

So now the Million Dollar QUESTION: ... are the features of NERO7 Ultra reallly that good and worth it ... to reinstall it??? ... but this time I am smarter and will say "NO" to all the File Association Questions by NERO.

BTW, I also have Roxio Easy Media Creator Basci 7 on my compouter. I tried installing my Full version of Roxio 7 and it crashed my computer "Blue Screen" I guess when I try to jsut remove one of it's application. QUESTION: If I install NERO7 Ultra, would you keep the Roxio on your computer also or remove it???

Thanks,
G!

[r0lZ]

IMO, Ner0 is not useful at all, at least if you consider only the DVD-Videos.
Everything it does can be done with free tools, and most of the time, the free tools are more powerful.
To play the DVDs, I use Media Player Classic, IMO the best player. However, you have to install another DVD player because MPC lacks the DVD codecs (as most free players, including M$ Media Player.)

I'm not sure you can install Roxio and Nero on the same system, but you can install ImgBurn anyway. Use it to burn your DVD-Videos. It is really better than Ner0, Roxio and probably everything else.

[idontno]

@rolZ. As far as Nero being useless, I disagree for these reasons.

If you have a bunch of .avi, .mpg ect, NeroVision will create a DVD with menus and convert to DVD on the fly. I've tried a few avi2DVD progs and none of them worked quite right. They either complicated things too much or the audio and video were out of snyc. It also took several progs to do what NeroVision can do in a wizard type environment.

Also, don't you have to use ISO to burn with ImgBurn? I don't like ISO.

@gonwk. I'm not sure about Roxio, Does it install a DLA (Drive Letter Access) prog? I had RecordNow, not sure if it's the same as Roxio or not, but I was a constant companion to BSOD. If you have DLA, DUMP IT NOW. Just look at all the forums about it and you'll see what I mean.


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[r0lZ]

Also, don't you have to use ISO to burn with ImgBurn? I don't like ISO.

No. ImgBurn v2 can burn directly the DVD-Video files... with very less problems than Ner0.

IMHO, Nero is probably easy to use, but it offers certainly not the same quality than a good encoder like CCE. Using, for example, VirtualDubMod with CCE is not so hard, though certainly more complicated than Ner0, but you can also use complex filters (which are very welcome with most of the AVIs downloaded from the net), crop and cut or resize the video if you want, and gives it exactly the encoding quality you want. And if you want real power, you can use AviSynth, even more powerful, but requiring a long learning curve. Of course, you have to mux everything.
As I said, the free tools are more powerful. I haven't said that they are more simple.

[dewwars]

Ok I got it upgraded to 7 now! I started burning some .avi and it would stop for a while and start back up, stop and start back to transcoding streams. now it has stopped and it has been stuck at that point for 22 hours!

[r0lZ]

idontno, do you know what I mean?