Hi:
I recently bought a DVD+R TDK burner and found that it worked fine in producing DVD's that I could play on my two "old" home DVD players.
The issue that caused me enough grief to return it was the fact that the burned DVD's could not give me the quality of images that I see in the commercial DVD's unless I was willing to put one hour of material on the disc.
I was using Pinnacle Studio 8, the 8.51 SE version. When I burned two hours of video, the quality was very poor. I was not impressed that the best quality only allowed me to record one hour on a disk.
I was able to create chapters for my digital home videos but I could not create the sub-sections within the chapters.
The other pain was the fact I could not fast forward through the disk at any higher speed than 2x. If I did, the image would freeze and I would have to stop the disk and scan through the chapters again. Maybe my DVD players are just a little too old??
Maybe an upgrade in Pinnacle Studio (of course for a price) would have resolved some of these issues. Their web site only suggested fancier editing effects as the benefit.
My two pence.
I have found most tools adequate for more common development. The best suggestion is to actually create unit tests (if your language supports it) that help you isolate the problems. Once the test passes, you have solved the bug.
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Hi: I recently bought a DVD+R TDK burner and found that it worked fine in producing DVD's that I could play on my two "old" home DVD players. The issue that caused me enough grief to return it was the fact that the burned DVD's could not give me the quality of images that I see in the commercial DVD's unless I was willing to put one hour of material on the disc. I was using Pinnacle Studio 8, the 8.51 SE version. When I burned two hours of video, the quality was very poor. I was not impressed that the best quality only allowed me to record one hour on a disk. I was able to create chapters for my digital home videos but I could not create the sub-sections within the chapters. The other pain was the fact I could not fast forward through the disk at any higher speed than 2x. If I did, the image would freeze and I would have to stop the disk and scan through the chapters again. Maybe my DVD players are just a little too old?? Maybe an upgrade in Pinnacle Studio (of course for a price) would have resolved some of these issues. Their web site only suggested fancier editing effects as the benefit. My two pence.
I have found most tools adequate for more common development. The best suggestion is to actually create unit tests (if your language supports it) that help you isolate the problems. Once the test passes, you have solved the bug.