Product Description

Item #: 39996F. Your own captivating home movies, multimedia photo albums, and music compilations-complete with dazzling menus, special features, and custom soundtracks - with DVD Architect Studio software you can swiftly create professional-looking DVDs, even stunning widescreen productions, on your home computer. Simply drag and drop to start building your next blockbuster.

Product Description
DVD Architect Studio ( v. 4.5 ) - complete package
Category: Creativity application
Subcategory: Creativity - multimedia authoring, creativity - video editing & production
Version: 4.5
License Type: Complete package
License Qty: 1 user
License Pricing: Standard
Platform: Windows
Distribution Media: DVD-ROM
Package Type: Retail
OS Required: Microsoft Windows XP, Microsoft Windows 2000 SP4, Microsoft Windows Vista
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Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #2250 in Software
• Brand: Sony
• Model: SDVDAS4500
• Released on: 2008-05-06
• Platforms: Windows Vista, Windows XP, Windows
• Format: CD-ROM
• Dimensions: .90 pounds

Features

• Import audio, video, and stills from an extensive range of formats
• Easy to use menu-based and drag-and-drop interface for DVD design and authoring
• Create picture slide shows and music compilations
• Still and motion menu creation
• Text editing and shadow effects

Customer Reviews

A very versatile DVD design program for the bucks.
This program does not come with a fancy video editor nor is it a suite of tools. That's why you get more bang for the buck. If you already have other tools, such as Sonic EMC or Premiere Elements you get video editors and other tools, but neither of those create the DVD as well as DVD Architect.

For example, Premiere Elements allows you to create automatically chaptered movies by allowing you to but chapter marks in the movie editor, but it does not allow you to create a DVD with more than one movie. It has a nice video editor, but a very weak DVD authoring tool. Sonic EMC allows multiple movies and slide shows, but does not create chapter marked movies.

DVD Architect allows both and a lot more. You add setups for sound tracks and easily create a tree of menus of practically any structure you want.
You can access DVD virtual commands in a limited way through the scripting tool. It could be better in that area.

If you buy Vegas Pro 8, you get DVD Architect with it and you have a great deal more power than any of the lowest price Video/DVD authoring combos.

I chose Vegas Pro 8 with DVD Architect because I was looking for a mid-priced tool (half the price of Premiere Pro), which is far more versatile than the low end packages. Although it may not be as powerful as Premiere Pro or Mac's Final Cut, it does a great job and you don't have to pay $800 for Premiere Pro.

I would have liked Premier Pro, but it was too expensive for me PLUS it does not yet support AVCHD files from my camcorder.

Sonic advertises support for AVCHD in Roxio Creator 2009, but what they really did was add a converter, which converts all the clips from your camera to mpg files, since the video editor "VideoWave" has not been changed to handle native AVCHD. Each step of conversion is a loss in quality. Sonic EMC also does a very sloppy job of batch processing the files so you can't walk away and just let it convert everything. You must select a folder every time it finishes a clip. Having 30 years of programming experience, that could have been done better by simply modifying the batch loop.

I still like the Sonic suite because it has a lot of useful tools that are not included with these other programs.

If you have an earlier Sonic Video Wave or EMC 8 or 9 and don't want to spend the money, you might find an AVCHD converter online for free or very cheap, which essentially accomplishes the same thing.

Bottom line: You get what you pay for and when you hold your budget, you have to compromise one thing for another.

Produce good DVD quality
I've been using Nero vision express 4 (free) to transfer DV video to DVD and I am not satisfy with the DVD quality after transcoding. I tried other free tools such DVD flick and DVD styler, and didn't get any better. DVD architect is very powerful, and yet produce very good DVD quality. The rendering time seems longer though, but I believe best quality is more important than quick transcoding.

This is a DVD authoring tool, as such, it doesn't provide fancy video editing. People need to understand this before complaining about lack of video editing features, etc.
The tool isn't intuitive, but it has the "show me how" tutorial which is helpful. Overall it's quite easy to use once after you read through some of the tutorials and
I was able to start burning DVD within 15 min. of first install. (Nevertheless, I never need to use help/tutorial for other software so this knocks 1 star down)

Overall this is a powerful DVD authoring tool that produces high quality DVD.
I am using the trial version now but plan to buy the Vegas Studio suite which only cost slightly more but includes a powerful video editor and this DVD Arcthitect Studio tool. Another good thing about this product is that you can try for 30 days free.

RU Guys kidding me?
Most of these crappy DVD creators are terrible. This is the first one that did what I wanted and more. Look on Youtube for a tutorial on making DVD menus. I edit videos in Camtasia Studio but you can just throw together clips however you want. I really liked being able to use a video as the DVD Menu background. When you add text and movies, it looks awesome. You can even play a song in the background. I also wanted a longer song selection so I opened up Cakewalk Music Creator and threw a few mp3s back to back and made it all one track.
I used 1280x720 HD MP4 video and it looked great when I played it on a 60 inch HDTV. Make sure you use the 16:9 option for widescreen videos or it will get stretched on HDTVs.
Just keep in mind this is the second step in creating a DVD. Camtasia is better than the full blown Sony Vegas and half the price. I haven't tried the cheaper versions of Vegas but at the very least get one of those.
One great feature is you can test the DVD out every time you do something. It will show you the safe zones in case someone uses a zoomed in widescreen option or something. It also can just make the DVD directory and you can open the main IFO file in VLC or something to test it out one last time before you burn it. I burn with Burnaware Free picking the Video_TS folder and it always plays in every player.