Just wondering what program if any, is similar to Macs iDVD for the PC?

Their iDVD program is like a no-brainer way to make dvd's and wondering what the PC equal is?

thank you all!

I don't know if there is a no-brainer DVD tool for PC.

Yeah, starting to see why macs are for the creative folk.

On one hand they can WOW you with the iDVD, final cut pro, motion, while the other 96% of the population are stuck trying to get something to look good with lots of clicks, mouse pull down menus, codecs, compression, import art, etc, etc. It's sort of like, imagine Acid (the music program) or a loop program being used ONLY by 3% of the population and knowone heard or knew about the loops, everyone is dazzled.

It's like a template never seen.

Makes you wonder and in comparison, makes my windows machine feel soooooo, IBM Data entry tool!

I think the closest thing I have found is the combination of NeroVision and Nero Recode. Still nothing compared to iDVD and iMovie, but not too bad either.

I've used the ULead DVD Movie Factory Software and found it very easy to use. It's a pretty nice piece of software.

Haven't used iDVD but it is surprising that "iDVD doesn't accept MPEG as its input": http://www.sjoki.uta.fi/~shmhav/SVCD_on_a_...it_convert_MPEG and perhaps any MPEG editing is not supported as well. There are many links to such Mac tools in the URL above.

On the PC side, there are many tools such as TMPGEnc Express, DVD author, MPEG editor as well as Womble, Videoredo that can quickly do MPEG edits and authoring of DVDs; in many cases without time consuming re-encoding. Look for those tools here: http://www.videohelp.com/tools?

I know exactly what you mean.

True story.

Friend of mine a bartender, buys a PC, then he buys my Geforce 6200 and starts to edit film.

He then decides to splurge for a MAC Dual G5 and uses iDVD for his videos using the ever so simple templates. Then, he gets a few jobs for shooting wedding videos and makes some decent money. He then gets final cut pro and motion and makes even more money. He and his wife move from Los Angeles to Kansas (where he's from), he becomes the in-house editor in charge of production, they buy a house and now have one child, a home and a dog. All this within two years from switching to a MAC.

You could argue the same can be done on a PC, but as you mentioned and I agree, having a MAC to outsiders looking in, most who use PC's, never have seen the EASY to use templates so it gives the appearance that you, the mac user, are in a crowd above the rest with your sophisticated menu's and movie programs and authoring.

For the PC though, I still think PC has more applications and plug ins for audio work, but for video, though limited, they have their stuff together.

Well, the reason why it won't accept MPEG is because iDVD expects you to edit with iMovie/Final Cut and then export it to iDVD.

anyone here ever use DVDLab? I've used it for a while now and absolutely love it (even over iDVD)... works well under Wine/Crossover as well.