steve waschka Posted November 30, 2014 Share Posted November 30, 2014 This may be beneath the collective intellect of this group. But I would like to know if I should just give up on the idea. I would like to produce dvd's at the house from time to time in small numbers. I have an older dvd recorder but its compression artifacts have become intolerable to me. I have a medical machine but it has choked and stopped doing dvd.. only does vid files now. So I tried a few programs for the macbook pro. None worked smoothly. Anyone have something that works well they could recommend? I am running out of energy for the trial and error approach. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Premium Member Tyler Purcell Posted November 30, 2014 Premium Member Share Posted November 30, 2014 Umm… Toast works great! You can set the bit rate and it makes menu's + burns right out of the program. I usually encode with Apple Compressor which is part of the Final Cut Pro Suite. It has a wide range of MPEG settings which allow for decent output, far better then any other tool I've used. The hardware encoders like a stand-alone DVD recorder, are garbage. You need a multi-pass system for variable bitrate in order to fit long-form content onto a DVD and make it look good. If you have a mac and can get compressor, I'd be more then happy to toss some settings your way. :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Premium Member Aapo Lettinen Posted December 1, 2014 Premium Member Share Posted December 1, 2014 I personally use Encore CS6 for dvd authoring. not a perfect tool and has some bugs sometimes but quite easy to use especially for simple dvd's Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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