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Summary: DVD Complete by Dazzle Multimedia
Review: ... The Good: This program is probably the easiest to use and I would recommend it to anyone who is a computer neophyte. It's the fastest way to generate DVD Menus. I especially like how you set the linking of the arrow keys on the remote control; very well done. The Bad: This program is extremely limited in what you can customize with it. The button thumbnails for the menus are effectively not customizable. Motion menus MUST be generated based on the chapter marker which they link to. The strength of the program relies on the "Wizards", however there is no facility to make your own custom wizard. Also, of course, you have the infamous Dazzle tech support to deal with (which is no better today than when you bought your last Dazzle product. Why the heck did I buy another Dazzle product? I'm too stupid to learn so I deserve what I bought.) Even Worse: One of the things that iritates me the most of this program is that it takes A LONG TIME to generate the DVD. Most other programs build up the DVD images quite quickly whereas DVD Complete TAKES 1h 35min to build a 2hr DVD, and then however much longer to burn it. I'm not talking about encoding either, this is simply taking the MPEG2 file that I've supplied to DVD Complete and building the DVD image from that. So all together it takes over 2hrs to burn a DVD at 2.4x speed. Not very good folks. Much worse than competing products. You'd never know this by their demo because they limit the demo to only 300MB of video. ...
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Summary: DVD In-Complete
Review: ... The Good: This program is probably the easiest to use and I would recommend it to anyone who is a computer neophyte. It's the fastest way to generate DVD Menus. I especially like how you set the linking of the arrow keys on the remote control; very well done. The Bad: This program is extremely limited in what you can customize with it. The button thumbnails for the menus are effectively not customizable. Motion menus MUST be generated based on the chapter marker which they link to. The strength of the program relies on the "Wizards", however there is no facility to make your own custom wizard. Also, of course, you have the infamous Dazzle tech support to deal with (which is no better today than when you bought your last Dazzle product. Why the heck did I buy another Dazzle product? I'm too stupid to learn so I deserve what I bought.) Even Worse: One of the things that iritates me the most of this program is that it takes A LONG TIME to generate the DVD. Most other programs build up the DVD images quite quickly whereas DVD Complete TAKES 1h 35min to build a 2hr DVD, and then however much longer to burn it. I'm not talking about encoding either, this is simply taking the MPEG2 file that I've supplied to DVD Complete and building the DVD image from that. So all together it takes over 2hrs to burn a DVD at 2.4x speed. Not very good folks. Much worse than competing products. You'd never know this by their demo because they limit the demo to only 300MB of video. ...
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Summary: Dazzle DVD Complete
Review: Dazzle DVD Complete will not capture video with the Dazzle DVC II
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Summary: Don't buy any Dazzle products!
Review: Dazzle was purchased by Pinnacle Systems, Inc. Although the contents will indicate that 24/7 phone support and online support is available, Pinnacle offers no support for Dazzle software. If you have any problems, you're out of luck. However, they will try to sell you their own software.
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Summary: Buyer Beware
Review: I downloaded the full version of DVD Complete from Dazzle's website ($$$$$). After numerous feeze-ups as I tried to add small clips to this movie making/burning software, I finally called tech support (several times). Nice people, but they admitted this is a new product and not really fully de-bugged, and I've never been able to get it to work. I dont know what other software can do the job better, but this one is definitely not the one, at least with this user (Windows XP user). It seems this whole family of software generally is where CD burning software was a few years ago -- lots of headaches. So the problem may be systemic, and not confined to DVD Complete alone.
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Summary: Buyer Beware
Review: I downloaded the full version of DVD Complete from Dazzle's website ($$$$$). After numerous feeze-ups as I tried to add small clips to this movie making/burning software, I finally called tech support (several times). Nice people, but they admitted this is a new product and not really fully de-bugged, and I've never been able to get it to work. I dont know what other software can do the job better, but this one is definitely not the one, at least with this user (Windows XP user). It seems this whole family of software generally is where CD burning software was a few years ago -- lots of headaches. So the problem may be systemic, and not confined to DVD Complete alone.
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Summary: Excellent program
Review: I have tried many programs but have yet to find a product as good as this one. It is fast and creates good looking menus without any hassle. For the price, this is the best product for DVD authoring. I haven't had any of the problems that are stated by other reviewers. The product is also being upgraded from time to time (which will make this product even better than it already is!).
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Summary: The Worst Usage of Money Ever
Review: Please, please do not buy this software. You may wonder why the company that made it went broke. Well, it's because of how utterly horrible this thing is. I finally was able to get my video onto my computer. Whenever I opened it, it crashed after 6 minutes. Video randomly merges with images. This is the worst program ever written. A paraplegic gorilla randomly flailing about on the ground in some god-forsaken rainforest has most likely written a better program than this one. Please, for my sake and especially for yours, do not buy this.
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Summary: The Worst Usage of Money Ever
Review: This product provides motion menus, overtures, slide shows, complete printing of disc, jacket, etc. and nice templates for the DVD itself. It is rated highly by Cnet and PC Magazine as editor's choices. On the other hand: Dazzle was just bought by Pinnacle, and all web resources, and support, has been withdrawn. Caveat Emptor, therefore, until it re-appears from another company (it is not clear that Pinnacle bought rights to this software, which was not written by them). Revision: This product was bought by 321 software and is now called DVDXMAKER.
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Summary: Superior template based product
Review: This product provides motion menus, overtures, slide shows, complete printing of disc, jacket, etc. and nice templates for the DVD itself. It is rated highly by Cnet and PC Magazine as editor's choices. On the other hand: Dazzle was just bought by Pinnacle, and all web resources, and support, has been withdrawn. Caveat Emptor, therefore, until it re-appears from another company (it is not clear that Pinnacle bought rights to this software, which was not written by them). Revision: This product was bought by 321 software and is now called DVDXMAKER.
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