PC DVD Authoring Software

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Question for PC vidders: what DVD authoring software do you recommend. The software needs to be able to import m2v & wav files and create a menu and then export the final product into a fully blown VIDEO_TS folder (will burn it with a different application). Am not looking for a complete/high end video editing or DVD burning software - just a trial version of an app that can author a basic, no frills DVD menu with already exported MPEG-2 files.

I've tried the trial version of TMPEenc Author - but it has a hard time accepting many of the m2v files (complains about missing video sequence headers etc). I swear this was easier on the Mac, but that would be a small lie..... but only a small one.

DVD Authoring Question: 16:9 Source

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Some DVD authoring programs (IDVD, Ulead) cannot handle both 4:3 and 16:9 (widescreen source).

On some m2v files, the 16:9 screen images are squished vertically to fit the 4:3 format. In the past I was able to manually import the m2v file into my editing software, adjust the widescreen (make the image smaller) so it fit back down into a 4:3 frame and render, then re-export. This takes too much time to do for each vid.

is there a setting we can shoot for (Final Cut or Adobe Premiere or TMPEGEnc) that will export 16:9 images so the widescreen source is pre-adjusted to fit into the 4:3 TV screen?