I'm totally new to this, but I'm wondering, Magix seems to be a low cost way to convert a burn avi files to vcd. I've kinda narrowed it down to 2, Movies on CD & Dvd 2005 and Video Deluxe 2.0 Plus. Both have gotten mixed customer reviews, but other professional reviews all seem positive. Does anyone have any recommendations in the <$50 price range?

-- Reuben Franklin (rf186junk@yahoo.com), February 17, 2005

Answers

TMPGenc (http://www.tmpgenc.net). Nothing beats TMPGenc for converting to VCD. Look at VCD forums at places like http://www.doom9.net and http://www.dvdrhelp.com and you'll see plenty of people using TMPGenc and maybe nobody using the programs you mentioned.

-- Root (root@yahoo.moc), February 18, 2005.

Magix is buggy, but a decent program for editing, once all the bugs are patched. Root is right, tho. TMPGEnc is the best low-cost encoder, no question.

-- Bryan (gryps-innocens@gryphon.zzn.com), February 22, 2005.