Brobear, Am reasonably sure that I followed your (excellent) instructions correctly. Perhaps because I was replacing lengthy titles (previews of comming attractions) is the reason? I must say really like your suggestion for replacing short titles & will continue to use. Thanks again!
I do not use DRM too much, but I think there is a limit to what you can do without enough knowledge. For instance, can anybody just rearrange and remove titles, or do you still need to edit the VM commands manually?? Again, I do not use it too much and I have not tried to do anything complicated with it. The place where DRM wins ease hands down is merging discs. While this is possible in PGCEdit, it will take about 5 minutes and you really have to know something about DVDs to do this. PGCEdit can be fast if you know what you are doing. I wrote a bunch of editing guides and some of them were over 50 pages long, however actual editing time was 15 minutes or less (in some cases under 5 minutes). I cannot give an good opinion on DRM because I have not fully explored it, but I can say that PGCEdit is definately one of the best programs out there. If you combine it with IFOEdit and FixVTS, I do not think there is anything out there that can match its power. For simple blanking and cutting video, I think VobBlanker is the best. The reason because it is free, fast and easy.
I think you struck upon one of the most common factors of the "best" software; user familiarity and preference. A lot of software has some feature(s) that makes it shine. Free and functional goes a long way. When it is good design, even better. Lets agree that the software mentioned is good and leave it at that. There will always be someone who thinks his is better. The discussion on the merits of freeware and retail aren't likely to be resolved either. Me, I'll continue to use both the freeware and retail according to what does the best job for me (user preference).
Thank you. It may be some of the last posting I do on the AD forums. Sometimes I play Devil's Advocate to make a point. I think you may have noticed that one of the things I've tried to get across in the past is that there's more than one way to do a lot of tasks and user familiarity and preference for software dictates a lot about the way in which the tasks are done. As long as there's not too much wasted effort and the output is good, I have nothing against the way a person accomplishes the task. Sometimes some methods are easier, but that's also for the individual to figure out at times. What's easy for one person isn't always as easy for another.
