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Tue Feb 4 10:20:03 PST 2003

Rob,
   The only thing to be said in favor of the Formac Software is that 
it's free for all practical purposes.  Every external DVD superdrive 
that I've seen runs about $399.95.  Then you have to buy authoring 
software, because iDVD won't work.  This stuff's free, so if it does 
what you want...  By the way did you try the new version of the software?
Bob.

Rob In der Maur wrote:
> Bob,
> 
> Please consider this before you spend your money:
> 
> In general Formac has good h/w devices (I own the Studio which is an 
> analog/digital audio/video converter incl. TV and FM radion) but the 
> software they built on top of that to support their hardware just sucks. 
> Their software for the Studio is still not supporting the FM radio 
> capabilities I have in my device and the TV application barely can synch 
> audio/video. I even consider buying ElGato's EyeTv (soon to be available 
> in a European PAL version) even though I spent a lot of money for this 
> Studio device.
> I downloaded the Devideon software to see how it looked (you can use it 
> to decode a small amount of footage to DVD format, without actually 
> having the Devideon hardware device) but it is very simplistic software 
> which does not do justice to the amount of money you spend on the 
> hardware device.
> The good story is that DVD Studio Pro will work with it (it has no 
> problems with external Firewire DVD burners); the bad story is that 
> DVDSP is way too expensive and the even worse story is that iDVD won't 
> support the device.
> We'll have to wait for DVD Studio Express, I guess....
> 
> cheers
> Rob
> 
> On Tuesday, Feb 4, 2003, at 15:56 Europe/Amsterdam, Robert W. Bumala wrote:
> 
>> Chris,
>>   You might want to look at the Devideon Superdrive from Formac.  It's 
>> a Firewire superdrive (Pioneer A05) and it comes with DVD authoring 
>> software.  I don't know of anyone that's using it, has used it, etc. 
>> but it looks interesting.  They're pricing it at what the other 
>> FireWire drives are going for ($399.95).  If you can believe the 
>> marketing hype, their software sounds easy to use.
>>
>> http://www.formac.com/p_bin/?cid=solutions_drives_devideon
>>
>> I'm thinking of saving my coins for one.
>> Bob.
>>
>> Chris Rivera wrote:
>>
>>> DVD Studio Pro is something I was considering so I could use an 
>>> external Firewire DVD-R with  my Cube.
>>> A student discount puts it at $500, so it wouldn't be too bad 
>>> (especially if I don't have to start messing around inside the Cube 
>>> too much.
>>> But has anyone ever actually USED DVD Studio Pro?  I am assuming it 
>>> is overkill for home projects and simple presentation projects, but 
>>> if it is easy to use, that would be OK.  I know it's not as easy as 
>>> iDVD, but how much harder?  Does it come with all the pre-made 
>>> screens and themes?
>>> Anyone have any idea?
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Robert W. Bumala
Circuit Design Engineer Specialist
Lockheed Martin Advanced Technology Center

Lockheed Martin Space Systems Company
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3251 Hanover Street
Palo Alto, CA 94304-1191

Phone: (650) 354-5918
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EMail: Robert.W.Bumala at lmco.com