DVD Burning: Between Extremes

摘要

You can have DVD burning two ways: simple and limited or arcane and flexible. Or at least that's the conclusion I'm forced to draw after sampling a bunch of retail and shareware DVD-authoring and -editing tools. At retail outlets, you can find any number of tools that will take your photos or videos and build a DVD, complete with an up-front menu system with buttons and a textured―maybe even animated―background. The packages range from very good to merely okay, but all of them have built-in limitations, primarily to keep you from getting lost in the maze of formats, constraints, files types, and all-but-impenetrable mysteries that make up a DVD.