DVD Architect Pro 5 & BluRay & FCP

[John Rofrano]

> Is the new DVD Architect Pro 5 easy to use?

Yes, it’s all drag and drop.

> Does it make menus with buttons that work?

Yes, and you can create your own buttons and themes and even import Photoshop PSD files with buttons and overlays.

> Will it burn the disc or do I have to use Toast?

For Blu-ray it creates an ISO file and then burns that to disc for you as long as you have a DB burner.

I use DVD Architect Pro 5.0 all the time to make Blu-ray discs. It works fine and is very easy to use. It can even preview the disc on a secondary monitor without having to burn it.

I don’t believe you can purchase DVD Architect alone so you will have to buy Vegas Pro 8.0 in order to get it. I assume as an FCP user that you are on a Mac and that you understand that DVD Architect is Windows Only software

~jr

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[Kert]

If you are running an Intel MAC, install BOOTCAMP with XP or Vista and you can run Vegas 8 and DVDA within Intel MAC. I have done it, it works.
JK

[Marc Savereux]

I have to disagree with the assesment that DVD Architect is easy to use.

I have both Vegas Pro 8.0 + DVD Architect Pro 5 and Pinnacle Studio Ultimate version 12, and creating a DVD project is much simpler in Pinnacle Studio Ultimate version 12 than it is DVD Architect Pro 5.0.

Drag & Drop does not mean intuitive in the case of DVD Architect Pro 5.

[John Rofrano]

> Drag & Drop does not mean intuitive in the case of DVD Architect Pro 5.

Yes, it is all relative to your frame of reference. The last time I saw Pinnacle Studio was around version 8 but back then you authored your DVD from the timeline. To me, that is the most unintuitive interface I could imagine. A DVD is hierarchical and authoring it on a linear timeline made no sense to me. But some people love it… so it’s all a matter of reference. 😉

By comparison, I opened Adobe Encore CS4 and it presented me with a blank interface. I was clueless as what to do next. I eventually figured out that you had to select new menu and then import your assets before you could use them and then drag and drop but it was not intuitively obvious.

In DVD Architect you start with a menu and a title. I change the title, drag my move onto the menu and press Burn. It doesn’t get any easier than that! (OK, maybe Ulead DVD Movie Factory is easier because it’s all “wizard” based) lol.

Point well taken… “one man’s intuitive interface is another man’s blank screen”.

~jr

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[Robert Billie]

Can anyone help me? I’m trying to use DVD Architect 5.0b to make a Blu-ray disk. I have MPEG-2 files which are 1920×1080 23.976 fps 18mbps bit rate. I chose Blu-ray as my disk type, 25GB media, I select prepare, all indications say I’m about to prepare a 21GB blu-ray disk but all I get is a 3.89gb .iso file and it only takes 20 minutes. What am I doing wrong? I burned the file to a standard DVD to see what I got and all I have is a very stuttered 10 minutes of the video in what looks to be dvd quality and pretty much all of the audio. I absolutely selected Blu-ray disk through the whole process. I burned the .iso to DVD in another session.