WinDVD Creator 2 Platinum

List Price: $99.99

Features:

• This integrated software solution that offers video editing, authoring and burning -- in one easy-to-use interface
• Advanced scene editing tools let users cut sections from the middle
• OnDisc Editing lets users delete append or record over titles without rewriting the entire disc
• Preview your changes instantly with instant playback of your edits
• Create slideshows and photo albums that use both photos and images captured from video -- then burn them to CD, VCD/SVCD, or DVD

Customer Reviews:

Bad [Posted on 2004-05-11]
This program came bundled with my computer. It is pretty bad. It has limited features and I can't play DVD's on my JVC DVD Player recorded with this software. I tried DVD's and VCD's with programs like Showbiz 2 which is very good and with Movie Factory 3 and I can even play those in the play station 2. Also the video and sound skip a lot and it has pretty low quality. It was a major disappointment so I had to buy extra software. I Chose Movie Factory because it was cheaper, and of the same quality as showbiz,and also included burn now for recording data or music to disc. I even recorded some slide shows of my parent's recent trip to England on Movie Factory and they were very impressed. The program might work for you, but I wouldn't recomend it to any one, try the demos of other software you can download directly from the internet and then choose the one that works the best for you. Most video editing software offer free trials for up to a month.

Very Bad Product [Posted on 2004-06-11]
Save your money, this product don't work. The input from my capture device is choppy and out of sync with audio. Support is worst than the product. would give it a lower rating, but this is the lowest I can give.

Works ok tons of little annoyances [Posted on 2004-10-25]
I wanted to create a slide show with music of my digital pictures. I used it to create a vcd and dvd of the same show. I had a poor experience using this program.

pro:
- I got a working dvd out of it and a marginally usable vcd.
- It was easy to understand.
- I could select when music could start and stop.
- It has a nice timeline view.
- The menu creator was easy to use and made a nice looking menu.
- Preview function so I could see what my project looked like. (Bug alert: if your images are smaller than the television screen size, you might see pieces of the picture that came before it on the right side of the screen. Thankfully, this doesn't happen when you actually burn the dvd or vcd.)

con:
- customized menus did not work in vcd format. I could eventually get the vcd to play, but chapters did not work. (menus do work in dvd)
- no way to rotate pictures while in the program. I had to rotate the pictures using another program then reimport them.
- There was an annoying click at the start of each music file I put in the slide show. The click is not in the original mp3s. I could get rid of it, but I had to do it by hand.
- The program attempts to be visual, so I couldn't enter an exact value, for example, a start time. Instead, I got to click little arrows up and down to try and get the number right.
- setting chapter marks was difficult. Sometimes I couldn't set one for no discernable reason.
- Program liked to crash while inserting music.

Worst ever!!! [Posted on 2005-03-31]
I read a lot of reviews and recommendations but none helped me with the sound sync issue. I would also not give a star but this is the minimum!

This product is great! [Posted on 2005-10-28]
User error is a must for those who had it hang. Or not a fast enough computer. Never hung for me. No hangups here. Works great. I love it. It take a little getting used to and learning the features. But they did a great job.

The only problem is it doesn't work with S-Video. My RCA cable allows me to see the picture. But if I switch to S-Video it's just a black screen and no picrture.

Otherwise great program.

ivnj

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