Making DVD's from finished projects?

Zon wrote on 2/7/2005, 9:57 PM
Hi guys, thanks again for all the help with Vegas. I've downloaded the demo, and I'm slowly but surely falling in love with it.

I've decided to purchase the full package next week, but I'm curious about tools for creating DVD's from finished projects? Do you guys recommend DVDA, and if so, is it possible to find it as a seperate package? If you don't recommend DVDA, what tools do you use for creating DVD's?

I'm mainly using this for wedding and event videos, personal projects, etc. and like everyone else, I'm on a pretty restricted budget.

Thanks in advance!
Zon

Comments

Spot|DSE wrote on 2/7/2005, 10:05 PM
You can't buy DVDA as a separate sale, you'll need Vegas to get it. It's a great tool for creating DVDs, very user friendly, and very fast to author with. It's not the biggest, baddest, most feature rich tool, but it's plenty good for most projects, IMO.
Zon wrote on 2/7/2005, 10:14 PM
Thanks Spot!

If you were buying for yourself, would you get Vegas + DVDA or Vegas + something else? I'm on a pretty limited budget, so the "something else" would have to cost no more than about $250ish, which is about how much DVDA seems to mark up Vegas if you buy them together.
B.Verlik wrote on 2/7/2005, 11:35 PM
My advice is to stick with Vegas DVD-A. It has just about anything you need for making DVDs including 5.1 and regular stereo Dolby. It's very simple to use. You'll get a '2 pass' VBR capability when encoding. And DVD-A has just about everything else that other programs have, in that same price range, but very few others include 5.1 Dolby encoding option. All the great help you can get at this forum will apply to Vegas DVD-A too.
PeterWright wrote on 2/7/2005, 11:46 PM
The other priceless feature of the Vegas - DVDA relationship is being able to create and name chapters along the Vegas timeline, and have DVDA automatically import them along with their names.

DVDA is already a brilliant program, and like all this family of software, including Sound Forge and Acid, it will keep on getting better ....