This question is indirectly related to which DVD authoring software is better: DVDMaestro or DVD Lab Pro. DVD Lab Pro allows the users to create not only VTS menus but also VGM menus. You will need to employ this technic if you want to fit multiple short movie clips with various sizes (4:3, 16:9 etc) into one DVD. How about DVDMaestro ? does anyone knows how to author muliple VGM menus with DVDMaestro ?
Nevermind, I figured out how to do it: just put each clips as individual movies. I would still like to hear your favorite though: DVD Lab Pro or DVDMaestro. Thanks.
I think that DVDMaestro lets you have more control over the movie and works a tad faster than DVDlabpro. DVDlabpro makes it harder for you to make a mistake. Mistakes will happen on DVDMaestro especially if you are doing menus for selecting from multiple episodes or scenes. They very similar though, so it would be hard to choose over the two. It seems like DVDlab is a clone of Maestro to me, but with a few changes. I think price would be the final deciding factor. Though DVDMaestro was $5000, I am sure now it would be around the same price or less than DVDlabpro. If you actually want to author a pro DVD, you would have to go with DVDMaestro. It has the option to add CSS & Macrovision and also export to DLT. The only thing is that the Pioneer S201 is still $3000 and it is the only burner I know of capable of writing the CSS and Macrovision Flags (don't know if it actually encrypts though). Also you need DVD-R(A) media or a DLT machine. I will soon be looking at Sony's DVD Architect to see how that works. I messed around with it for a couple of minutes and it seems ok, just a lot slower and a resource hog using about 150 - 200 megs of RAM and a lot of CPU even when it is idle.
JaguarGod, Thank you very much on your pointers, especially the more advanced features in Maestro such as exporting to DLT. I love DVDMaestro.
