Anyway, I'll weigh up whether to go through the learning curve of installing a Windows partition on my Mac or buying a cheap Windows laptop. It's a shame there are no decent Mac solutions - which is surprising as most creative pros I know use Macs as first choice. Many thanks for your very helpful reply Neil. This is the tool I use the most, and it gets use on literally every Video_TS authored now and it allows you to trace and rewrite (if necessary) every instruction on the authored title set as well as adding extra should it be needed and all without having to go through the hassle of recompiling. If you used exFAT as the external HDD file format (or else a copy of another lifesaver of a PC tool 'Mac Drive' which allows me to read a mac HFS+ system as easily as an NTFS one and work from both) then you would be coveredĪnother (again, Windows only) invaluable DVD authoring tool that is absolutely invaluable is PGCEdit.

You could create a very small Windows partition on your mac to run this (my BD-J code writer has a Windows partition on his Mac Book to test his code as well as to actually create in Scenarist BD (which also does not run on mac OS) and this causes no issue for the Mac side of the system. No, it doesn't - but it will run on any Windows system from XP onwards, specifically Windows 7, Vista or XP (32 or 64 bit editions) but I have heard of it running on W10 as well.

There is also a fully functional trial version available as well, and for straight DVD-V I cannot say enough good things about it. This does carry it's own built-in menu creation & layout tools as well as importing a layered PSD as well as separate TIF and BMP files and it really does work seriously well, with remarkably few issues as well as being seriously stable.

So if you could let me know what you need to do, I will be happy to recommend.įor regular DVD, you will have to go a long, long way to beat Media Chance Labs DVD-Lab Pro 2. What to recommend all depends on exactly what you are needing to do - is the intended output for Blu-ray or DVD-Video?Īll menu editing & creation should ideally be done in PhotoShop (this is how we do it, anyway) and authoring tools should ideally be treated as just that - assembly tools and not editors, otherwise you will (sooner or later) run into serious problems with 'ghost assets' due to the abstraction layer nature of all the cheaper authoring tools.

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