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Contributed by: holle2 Friday, February 17 2006 @ 12:31 AM PST

Product Platform: MacOSX

Used Product For: Over One Year

Recommend Product: YES

Great Tool for the Pro DVD Artist but the most things you can do with the Freeware myDVDedit. Only if you have a SCSI DLT Drive this tool makes sence because then you can proof and check for errors. Well for me much overpriced.

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I don't think so - troy2000--2008

While myDVDEdit is a remarkable freeware tool, it offers far less possibilities than dvdAE and I can't recommend it as a professional authoring tool. It has far less error checking and allows to change things that produce out of spec DVDs without any warning, while dvdAE IMHO does bullet-proof error checking. This a very important advantage to professional authors: you can save the price of it on one single glass-master that was NOT ruined by your own mistakes!
Then it will help you extensively with complex copy-and-paste operations in re-authoring. While myDVDEdit would handle some of these, you might have to do literally thousands of such operations by hand with it.
While the above will be true even for the standard edition, the mastering edition does much more for you than just support SCSI-drives (remember: DLT tapes are still the only really safe method to send your master for replication). It'll help you with correct dual-layer break placement, hybrid content (DVD-ROM), tape checking, reading back projects from tape for later changes and much more.
BTW, I'm the author of three of the leading books on DVD-authoring in German and not connected with the manufacturer other than being a long-time user of dvdAE.

Hope this helps.

Uli Plank

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Wednesday, June 28 2006 @ 09:26 AM PDT

I don't think so - troy2000--2008

While myDVDEdit is a remarkable freeware tool, it offers far less possibilities than dvdAE and I can't recommend it as a professional authoring tool. It has far less error checking and allows to change things that produce out of spec DVDs without any warning, while dvdAE IMHO does bullet-proof error checking. This a very important advantage to professional authors: you can save the price of it on one single glass-master that was NOT ruined by your own mistakes!
Then it will help you extensively with complex copy-and-paste operations in re-authoring. While myDVDEdit would handle some of these, you might have to do literally thousands of such operations by hand with it.
While the above will be true even for the standard edition, the mastering edition does much more for you than just support SCSI-drives (remember: DLT tapes are still the only really safe method to send your master for replication). It'll help you with correct dual-layer break placement, hybrid content (DVD-ROM), tape checking, reading back projects from tape for later changes and much more.
BTW, I'm the author of three of the leading books on DVD-authoring in German and not connected with the manufacturer other than being a long-time user of dvdAE.

Hope this helps.

Uli Plank

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Wednesday, June 28 2006 @ 09:26 AM PDT

jonny - jerrymcguire

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Wednesday, November 01 2006 @ 05:46 AM PST

I don't think so - troy2000--2008

While myDVDEdit is a remarkable freeware tool, it offers far less possibilities than dvdAE and I can't recommend it as a professional authoring tool. It has far less error checking and allows to change things that produce out of spec DVDs without any warning, while dvdAE IMHO does bullet-proof error checking. This a very important advantage to professional authors: you can save the price of it on one single glass-master that was NOT ruined by your own mistakes!
Then it will help you extensively with complex copy-and-paste operations in re-authoring. While myDVDEdit would handle some of these, you might have to do literally thousands of such operations by hand with it.
While the above will be true even for the standard edition, the mastering edition does much more for you than just support SCSI-drives (remember: DLT tapes are still the only really safe method to send your master for replication). It'll help you with correct dual-layer break placement, hybrid content (DVD-ROM), tape checking, reading back projects from tape for later changes and much more.
BTW, I'm the author of three of the leading books on DVD-authoring in German and not connected with the manufacturer other than being a long-time user of dvdAE.

Hope this helps.

Uli Plank

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Wednesday, June 28 2006 @ 09:30 AM PDT