Looking for the best DVD quality…

[Roman Melekh]

Try Canopus ProCoder with “MASTERING QUALITY, 2PASS_VBR, 8000” setting
or Cinemacraft Encoder with 3 PASS VBR

Author in any software…

[Spaniard43]

Sorry, I don

[Daniel Low]

An encoder like Procoder compresses/encodes the video to an MPEG-2 format. You then take those files into an authoring application wher eyou also create your menus, navigation etc. The authoring application converts (not re-encodes) that material into VOBs which it’ll then burn onto the DVD.

Obviously some authoring application can perform the entire process for you but as you’ve found out they don’t always provide the best quality.

It’s a London thing.