DVD X Maker

Product Details

• Shipping Weight: 8.8 ounces
• ASIN: B0000C7EO6
• Date first available at Amazon.com: April 2, 2010
• Average Customer Review: 2.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (8 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #22,364 in Software (See Top 100 in Software)

Product Description

From the Manufacturer

DVD X MAKER turns your collection of old home videos into dazzling, crystal clear DVD movies. Keep your precious memories alive forever! Produce, direct, create, burn and share exciting big-budget Hollywood-style DVD movies with DVD X Maker.

Built in wizards make it easy to create stunning credits, menus, chapters and more! Add overtures and even make disc labels, jackets and jewel cases, too. Turn your home office into a Hollywood studio! Make favorite times with family and friends come alive again.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Even better than I had anticipated!!, February 25, 2004

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Ryan Platt (Edmonton, Alberta Canada) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: DVD X Maker (CD-ROM)

Wow, I am impressed. I was expecting this product to be just another DVD creation program that would not be as good as advertised, but I decided to buy it directly from 321 Studios through a website download, because they offer an unconditional money back guarantee (no risk at all since it was a download).

I first tried using DVD x Maker to capture my video from my digital camcorder (through my ATI all-in-wonder video card). Worked great. However, keep in mind that with this software you cannot do any video editing besides "trimming" the start end end of the capture. For this reason, I am sticking to my old software (Ulead Video Studio) to to my capturing, editing, etc.)

DVD x Maker, however, seems to be a very powerful program in terms of what it allows you to do with the actual creation of the DVD (menus, overtures, music, etc.) My resulting discs look great on my TV afterwards.

Now when it comes to MPEG-2 compression, I am normally very picky with the quality because I play my DVD's on an HDTV so all defects are apparent. Before I bought DVD x Maker, I was using one program to capture (Ulead Video Studio), one to do the MPEG encoding (Tsunami MPG Encoder), and one to burn the DVD's (Sonic MyDVD). After researching the subject, I had decided that the Tsunami software did the best job of MPEG-2 encoding. However, it took my computer (2.4GHz) about 35 hrs to encode a 2-hr home video. DVDxMaker will do the same job in about 4 hours, and yield equal (if not better) results. Not what I expected at all.

My menus look great. The provided themes allow you to quickly create a great professional look, easily, and even add chapter points wherever you want. And all your menus can have motion thumbnail images, or even the full screen! Looks excellent. And what's great is that even when you load one of the pre-made templates for menus, you can completely customize it yourself if you so desire, by adding/removing/repositioning buttons, changing text fonts, adding text boxes, changing music, background images or video, etc.

When I bought DVDxMaker I thought I would probably be retuning it for the money back guarantee, but I was wrong! This is an excellent program for MPEG-2 encoding, DVD menu creation and burning. However, you might still want to stick to another of your favorite programs for the capturing if you have problems with DVDxMaker, and definitely for the editing process if you need to do anything more than trimming off the beginning and end of your video clips.

Another great feature is the way it can generate DVD labels, jewel case inserts, and DVD case jackets using the same (or different if you wish) theme of the menus you used on the DVD itself. This makes the DVD case look professional because it matches (theme-wise) your DVD menus. And these DVD printouts are just as customizable as the menus.

I would recommend this to pretty much anyone, regardless of whether you are a beginner at creating DVD's, or have done it before, as long as you keep in mind that you may still need to use other software for video editing (re-arranging clips, adding text, special effects, etc)

5 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars how bad can it [ just bad], January 3, 2004

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richard hunter (sun city west, az United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: DVD X Maker (CD-ROM)

got a 321studio x maker, boy did deliver. an how it delived? let me tell you. help, what help! after about a week just removed it. could not get it to copy a movie, could not get any help from 321 studio. went an got windvd creator 2 platnum at amazon at half the price. down loads from dv recorder [sony] burns moveis to dvd or to vcr

6 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Not what I expected, January 2, 2004

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"spoonz923" (Davenport, IA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: DVD X Maker (CD-ROM)

Ok, got this product in hopes that I could capture some video footage from my Sony Digital 8 handycam. After purchasing the software, found out that I needed to get a capture card to make it work.

Afterwards, I looked at the editing features. Basically, how you take the video is how your video is basically going to look. The features are rather poor, and the "special" editing tools are near non-existent. All this program really does is create menus, add your video, and allows for special stuff (ie outtakes, alternate endings etc.) that you can add in. It does not allow you to edit your video files like adding a fade or transition stuff.

I just ordered Screenblast Movie Studio. Hopefully that will be better for me. As for DVD X Maker...was not what I was looking for.