> I'm not sure that your comment accurately reflects my email Jarrod. If > you are meaning to infer that I am some sort of Mac zealot, well, > that's just plain incorrect. Far from it in fact. For the level of > detail that I need to delve into with DVD authoring, a tool like > DVDauthor is not appropriate.
I meant no offence; I used to work quite happily on a Mac myself. You did however come across as a Mac Zealot, I apologize if you don't like being lumped in with them. Based on what I read... and I did say this, I hadn't actually attempted anything yet, it sounded like the tools are all there to successfully create a professional-grade or at least a working DVD. The tools may not be pretty (beauty is in the eye of the beholder and some people think CL stuff is pretty sexy) but they appear to work and work well. > I realize you were not looking for a Mac solution to your original > email but you did ask for comments on what other people are using. You are correct, I did not specify Linux or Open Source as requirements for what I was looking for, that was implied by the nature of this list. I remarked because the same thing happened on /. Someone asked the very same kind of question and all these closed source apps were discussed. It is remarkable that Mac users are more rabid in promoting certain things than any other computer user out there. I also think that while Apple has historically been the best solution for a lot of graphic and multimedia needs but it is not the be-all-end-all and this may not be the case these days. The comment I liked from /. was that with (just about) any of the authoring tools you are locked into a certain way of doing things. A lot of them are templated and you do the task the *same* way every time. I suspect that doing things under Linux will actually end up being more liberating (imagine that!)... if you spend the time to do it. I am not saying that DVDAuthor is the best solution (hell I haven't even scratched the surface in experimenting) but it may be the most *flexible* solution. The one comment I will add is that for the most part it appears that the DVD authoring apps make things simple and quick but not necessarily the best tool for the job. In the end, it is whatever works for you. I am an explorer of sorts and I am not afraid to try command-line stuff if it eliminates a lot of overhead from a process. I can't say for sure what I will be using to do my authoring. It is very likely that I will stick with a couple Freeware apps under Windows (DVDDecrypter and DVDShrink) for creating backup copies of the DVD's in my collection. That is until I work out how to do the same sort of things under Linux. As an aside, both these apps are *supposed* to work under WINE. I am more inclined to do things with DVDAuthor and the tools under Linux to make my own original work. > that clears that up. :-) Authoring DVDs are fun projects and I hope > you find the solution appropriate to your particular needs. I do too, and I hope there are no hard feelings. I appreciate all the input that people provided to my query. I'll keep you all posted on my progress. Jarrod _______________________________________________ clug-talk mailing list [email protected] http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) **Please remove these lines when replying
