Invisible wrote:
> BTW, any ideas about *good* DVD authoring software? My drive came with 
> some freebie that works, but it doesn't work fantastically well...

When I looked around for DVD authoring software for turning camcorder 
stuff into DVDs, I found ULead to be the only version that actually 
didn't compress everything so poorly it was unwatchable. ULead "fair" 
quality was better than anyone else's "best" quality. I suspect ULead is 
the only one that actually implemented b-frames at the time.

If that's what you're doing, I'd suggest getting a clip with lots of 
motion and another with lots of flat area, then trying out all the free 
trial versions of stuff to see what the quality is like. I used a video 
of sun sparkling off an open tank of water, and then looking into the 
tank of water to see the turtles and such swimming. Gave a good pair of 
images, with lots of random motion and lots of subtle contrast 
differences, both of which are hard for mpeg to compress.

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