Has anyone used it ? Is there a tutorial or guide available online ?

Yes, I am using it, and I like it very much. Has practially anything you would want in a DVD authoring program.

The only manual is the one that comes with the install program. I have it as HELP file, and it's not small, but can be sliced and sent piece by piece. Drop me a line if you want me to send it to you.

Yeah man that would be great.

If you could even post it to the news group that would also be okay. I have included my email just in case.

The interface of spruce maestro is not easy to understand. reminds me of I-Author !!

I am interested in marking chapter points ( I somehow did that ). Then design a menu to show an option for each chapter. Each of this button should be a motion menu. Also the audio needs to be transcoded to AC3 from mpeg2

This is my problem any help will be very much appreciated.

I have been using DVD Maestro for a few months now and just love it - however a few things i.e. like subpicture creation I still don't quite understand and would be very grateful if you could send me the help file.

I would really apreciate the Help file fo DVDMaestro... could you please send me too?

Thanks in advance!

Kim.

PLease help... I need the help file SpruceDVD.hlp for DVD Maestro 2.9.

Could anyone tell me where to find or send me???

Thanks a lot!

Kim

Any of you guys authoring DVD in 16:9 with Maestro and having success on correct auto sensing of the full screen image on a 16:9 TV?

Whilst I have the program I do not have the platform to run it and I would like to be assurred that an update away from W98SE would produce the goods in 16:9 with Maestro

Thanks for any info

Ross,

I always though that Maestro came with the hardware to run it on including MPEG capture and decoder boards.

Where did you get your's ?
How much did it cost ?

Shell

Shell- Guess where we all get stuff to play with before buying!

Its a NT/w2000 platform and regretably does not run in W98SE.

The problems I have with DVD authoring in 16:9 are extra-ordinary, several of us are trying to make this work properly but my guess is now what we are trying to do is not available in the DVD spec as yesterday I had an email in relation to mixed menu formats and the designer of the infoEdit program has said he has not ever found a solution to the problem either as it occurs in the commercial DVD as well.

I just would like to try Spruce's best program and see what it produces because SpruceUp is only 4:3 based and one needs to tweak it with infoEdit to get 16:9 compliance. Thats the story so far.

I would also be appreciative if you could send me the helpfile.

Thanks in anticipation.

Every time I start DVDMaestro i get the message that the decoders for the preview thing are not present.
Which decoders are they referring to and where do I find these decoders?

You need to install the Matrox DVD player or Cinemaster 2000 player. Search for them.

tyee

I would want it too for "educational" purposes.

Seb

Get a DVDMaestro-Conductor User Guide.pdf from:

ftp://130.164.140.50/incoming/DVDMaestro-Guide.zip

Size: 17.9Mb

for the link

Seb

...will Maestro run on Win XP?

Yes, it runs on XP

maestro seems really cool... I had some old version of it and there was no install or anything, just files in a folder and its been running great, no crashes yet and its really straight forward to use....

I was too late! the link seems to have expired, do you know where else I can get the guide or help file?