Robot17 opened this issue on Nov 10, 2003 ยท 10 posts
norm1153 posted Mon, 10 November 2003 at 7:37 AM
OhMyGawd! Jeez, I almost choked on my coffee! Now THERE'S a name out of the trash heap! Unfortunately, the Matrox RT2000 came bundled with it, and it was also the only thing going for us wannabe pros, and businesses, at least under $1K or so. What a horrible piece of s**t that is/was! But I was stuck trying to use it--had to use it for the first 3 DVD's I produced - one feature length. Like a fool I upgraded to the SE version of DVDit! (Also unfortunately the exclamation point is part of the product's name, lest anyone mistakenly think I was endorsing the product). That didn't do a damn thing. And you had to pay over $600 to get a version with Dolby encoding/decoding. Otherwise you were stuck with a disk hog .WAV file for the audio. We were finally saved when Adobe's Premiere 6.5 included an MPEG 2 encoder from MainConcept. Then I only had to use the thing for titling, menus and so forth. And believe me, Once I was finished, I made a disk image file, and was done with DVDit---- I just can't do it (place that exclamation point). That sure was a smart move by Apple when they acquired SpruceUp, to take it off the Windows market!! Ah memories, sometimes not so wonderful :) Norm