The only GOOD THING that I have seen of AVID is this FORUM.do you think that it will last until AL8?.we'll see. If I dont receive help with this issues I will be joining the guy who wrote a review and said this was his last $200 donation to this people for a 10cents CD-ROM. In the meantime I am going Back to my trusty LE5.5 (with my single DVD menu) until I receive help with this.or it is a complot of the AVID guys that made AL7 another Pinnacle Studio cuality product to make us purchase their 'PRO high end' software.Probably thats why they bought their more affordable and best selling sofware company competitors. told me) to fix that BAD DVD CUALITY That I am getting with AL7. If somebody can help me with this I would appreciate it,probably is the twistting of some settings here and there (onlike the Avid rep. This AVID People wants to recover FAST what they paid to the former Owners!

I talked about this issues with a Pinnacle/Avid tech rep.and could not help me to resolve this if I dont PAY $50 dlls first. ***3.-***The MAYOR ANNOYANCE that I have found in AL7 besides the 2 previous is that it wont give you the LE5.5 option of FAST or GOOD encoding (good is 1/3 slower than fast ) in the same IPB window,any one knows where it is if even exist in AL7? In AL7 I can output to DVD a 1 hour proyect in 2 hours as opposed to 4 hours in LE 5.5 (good encoding) but if you are a PRO and make your living out of this you want the BEST CUALITY for your customers and 2 hours for a MUCH BETTER DVD is of no relevance.(besides I Burn at Night when I am not working) ***2.-***LE 5.5 Offers the Kbit/s up to 9800 contrary to the 8500 in AL7.Other programs onlike ProShow Gold the output to DVD HQ(High Cuality) has 9716 Kbit/s as standar and gives Professional results as LE 5.5 when at 9.8 Mbit/s,The Only drawback of this is that you only can fit 1 Hour of video in a sinle layer DVD wich is fine for me, if I wanted 2 hours I then would use a Doble Layer DVD.(thats why there where invented,if you not aggre with this try to burn a Hollywood feature DVD in the exellent program DVDX Copy in one single layer DVD and the program ussually will tell you that will split the movie in 2 discs) To my understanding a larger GOP gives you better cuality right? ***1.-*** In LE 5.5 When you want to make a DVD you go> burn to disc >export to DVD>DVD Image 1.and then you have the options in IPB settinngs of max.

Pinnacle studio 22 downgrade