Best program to use to create a DVD?

#1

I host a yearly Super Bowl party and every year we have a video game tournament before watching the football game. A few years ago I used a program called Studio 8 to create a DVD using footage I recorded with a video camera.

For the upcoming tournament, I’m planning on buying a capture card so I can get high quality video. I’m also going to run a microphone to record everyone talking and add that in as a secondary audio track.

We will be playing Street Fighter along with 5 or 6 other games at the tournament. The DVD set I’m going to make will probably be at least 4 discs long.

I’d like to be able to do what I mentioned above and also add in easter eggs and be able to make everything look nice.

What would be the best program to use to do all of this? I heard the Adobe Premier program is very good but hard for someone who has no experience with it.

#2

Yeah, Adobe Premiere and Sony DVD Architect are the good ones… if you have experience with DVD programs, or video editing programs… or are very good at self-teaching with programs (if you’ve taught yourself to use Photoshop and other stuff with ease). If not, Click-to-DVD is a good program for beginners that makes great looking DVDs, but you won’t be able to make them 16:9. Easter eggs are possible with Click-to-DVD… but they’ll look much better with Adobe Premiere or DVD Architect.

#3

I may just go with Adobe Premier since it is the best to use. I have plenty of time from now until February to read some tutorials and understand how the program works.

I haven’t heard of the Sony DVD Architect, I may check that one out as well.

Thanks