"Mark A" wrote in message
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John wrote:

If you need to do both what would you recommend? Would you buy DVD
Author and a separate movie editor or is there one package that can do
both and is pretty good?

Sorry, I don't edit home movies so I don't have any experience. I do
know I tried earlier versions of Ulead's Video Studio and was surprised
at how poor it's menuing and authoring side was. It's probably got a lot
better now though.

Regards

Mark

As someone who is very familiar with TDA and who
has always discouraged trying to author with an editing
package, I also feel that a dedicated DVD authoring
program is the much better approach. But, there has
been some real improvement in the authoring function
of VideoStudio, to include 16:9 menus. I agree that
it is not as versatile or intuitive as TDA, and that I would
certainly continue to use TDA for any routine DVD
production, for the way it fits into a good workflow.

For someone with camcorder footage, that can benefit
from editing, though; VideoStudio offers a reasonably
good DVD creation process. Of course there is nothing
to prevent editing in VideoStudio then rendering the
movie as DVD compliant MPEG, for authoring in a
dedicated authoring program.

Luck;
Ken