Is Easy Media Creator 9 for Me?

[elijahnow]

Hello:

I recently purchased a new video editor called SpeedEDIT from NewTek, and a new Panasonic digital tape camera. I need a program to create my menus and burn to DVD.

I'm new to video's and would like to know if Easy Media Creator 9 would be the program I need to complete my DVD.

I may at sometime want to use one video with mutable audio tracks for different language choices, will Easy Media Creator 9 do this?

One last question, does the authoring program make a difference in the quality of the final video and audio?

Thank you,

 

Del

[elijahnow]

Thanks for the info it's helped me a lot.

 

Del

[ggrussell]

I may at sometime want to use one video with mutable audio tracks for different language choices, will Easy Media Creator 9 do this?

No, MyDVD does not support multiple language tracks. Mostly likely will need a most advanced DVD authoring application like Sonic's DVDit Pro.

 

As for the final quality, it mostly depends on the source files format. If you create a MyDVD project with DVD compliant MPEG 2 files, it will NOT re-encode the files and keep the original quality. The audio maybe transcoded depending on how you set the project settings.

 

ALL non-compliant files will be encoded. This may or not affect the final output. Just depends on the format of the source file.

[Larry]

You could always try out the free trial version of EMC 9 to see if it fits your needs.

[elijahnow]

OK no multiple sound tracks.

If I understand correctly, and I render a project in SpeedEDIT using MPEG 2 and then use MyDVD to create my menus and burn to DVD. The sound quality will remain unchanged from the original, depending on settings.

Or I can encode the soundtrack in MyDVD and the quality will be dependent on MyDVD.

Sorry if I seem redundant or confused, I'm just trying to get a handle on what I'm doing.

Thanks,

 

Del

[ggrussell]

I'm not familiar with SpeedEdit so I have no idea of it's capabilities. Keep the MPEG 2 bitrate between 3Mbps and 9Mbps. MyDVD defaults to AC3 which is compressed, but the quality is still excellent. Video quality will be affected more before the audio. Keep in mind for best quality, keep video under one hour for single 4.7 disc. A little under 2 hrs for 8.5 disc.

 

You'll know if MyDVD will try to re-encode the video. The preview will show the video during encoding. If it isn't encoding, you will see a gray image with the word MPEG on it.