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Consumer Editor Reviews - Authoring

Authoring

Adobe Premiere Elements

Magix Movie Edit 10

Pinnacle Studio

Ulead VideoStudio

Interface to editing

 Final production step.    

Integrated.  As a final step, you click Share then Create Disc and wizard appears. You can work with the video coming in from the timeline or add other videos or VS projects.

Navigation options

       All sequential menu; no submenus or custom navigation
Chapter point insertion Insert manually.     Automatic at scenes or manual

 

Menu Design:

Adobe Premiere Elements

Magix Movie Edit 10

Pinnacle Studio

Ulead VideoStudio
Template quality       Templates are OK, not iDVD in quality, but not cheesy either.

 
Text options       Text controls are still clumsy; you click the title, a box appears where you input text and choose fonts. Studio’s is much nicer.
Video background       Yes
Audio background       Yes
Insert custom still image       Yes
Layout/Frame/Button Customization      

You can customize menus by choosing button layout, scene frame and navigational buttons, but can’t manually move scene frames around.

         
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Encoding:

Adobe Premiere Elements

Magix Movie Edit 10

Pinnacle Studio

Ulead VideoStudio
Dual layer        
Fit to disk      

Yes. Click Fit & Burn icon, and the program computes required data rate and burns disk.

Dolby Digital Audio      

Yes
Avoid recompression      

Yes
       

 
Lose points:        
Insert data directory       Yes
Other      

Still can’t save the DVD project; if you insert chapter points, choose thumbnails, insert chapter titles you lose it all when you finish burning which is silly.

         
         
         
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Summary

Adobe Premiere Elements

Magix Movie Edit 10

Pinnacle Studio

Ulead VideoStudio
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Pluses:

  • Very simple, wizard based

  • Fit to disk

  • Good range of customization options (but not manual placement of button frames)

  • Fit to disk

Negatives:

  • Can't save DVD project information like chapter points and button labels.
         
         
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