by Steve Grisetti » Sat Jan 26, 2013 6:31 pm
The quality of the output should be pretty much the same. They all use the same Main Concept MPEG transcoder.
Sony Vegas Movie Studio does not have DVD authoring capabilities. Some of the newer versions of Movie Studio can burn a DVD -- but this will be the movie only, with no menus.
DVD Architect is designed to author DVDs and BluRays exclusively. It's a very powerful tool which allows you to create multiple levels of menus and custom design their looks. It's not a video editor: It's designed to have finished video editing projects handed off to it so you can create menus.
Premiere Elements includes a relatively basic disc authoring system. You can create a two-level DVD or BluRay menu: a main and a scene menu. That's all. it comes with a limited number of templates and a limited number of ways for you to modify them.
Does that help?
Sony Movie Studio is pretty much a video editor only.
Premiere Elements is a video editor with limited disc authoring tools.
DVD Architect Studio has almost no video editing tools -- but it can take finished video projects and designed as advanced a disc menu as you'd like for them.
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