Tired of using DVD authoring programs that walk you through with a wizard? Offering you little opportunity to customize your project? Without support for some of the better features, like motion menus, 16:9 support, and transitions? If so, then you might want to check out DVD-lab, a powerful new porgram from MediaChance.com.

I think that most of the consumer DVD authoring tools really underestimate users by holding their hands tight while guiding them through the DVD authoring process. In world where I live pre-school boys and girls don't buy DVD burners nor produce DVD movies (yet), they are busy with other things (Fishers Price Little People anybody?). So my question is: Why most of the DVD authoring software tries to appeal to them so badly?

Then there is the higher level of authoring tools which needs months of training and another mortgage to obtain it.

I decided to write a DVD authoring tool which will combine a modern professional interface with easy to use approach, it wouldn't be hard to learn and it will give the user the freedom to create what they want.

DVD-lab is built on a very strong Developer Studio-like model ... and for a very good reason. Unlike any other DVD authoring tool of this kind you can actually totally reorganize the interface to suit your needs. What is beneath is a very powerful multi-tasking engine, which will surprise you with its overall speed and light feel. Scrolling through a movie and adding chapters is a breeze. While you compile the movie you can actually do other things, even work on other DVD. It has integrated menu creation, connection module and DVD burning module.

It doesn't hide from you advanced aspects of DVD creation yet it covers your back. For example it does Auto-Routing for buttons on menu, but you can switch it off and route the buttons as you like.