Digital Home Thoughts: PC Mag Reviews Roxio's MyDVD 8 Premier

"MyDVD 8 Premier is the first version of MyDVD I've seen that integrates applications from Roxio (Sonic acquired the company in 2004). The marriage is rocky, though. Some functionality has improved, but the interface is less intuitive and the workflow more circuitous. Throw in lack of compatibility with previous projects and a crash or two, and you've got a product that's hard to get excited about. I've always liked MyDVD's authoring paradigm, which displays a WYSIWYG DVD menu surrounded by function-oriented buttons for adding content or customizing text. Roxio retained this, and added a Project View you can use to navigate through your work-in-progress. And the product still lets you create submenus, which add navigational flexibility that programs like Adobe Premier Elements can't match."



The review starts out promising and goes downhill quickly from there. He praises MyDVD 8 for having functions that Premiere Elements doesn't include, then trashes it because it lacks certain Premiere functions. I've always been a Nero guy myself, so I have little to no experience with Roxio's stuff, but it's always been my impression that they're relatively comparable programs. The sheer amount of bugs the reviewer encountered though is enough to make be stay far away. That being said, I really think if video editing is your thing, you should really look at a video editing program that can burn DVDs, rather than a DVD burning program that can edit your videos.