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The infusion of pro and amateur DVD creation tools into the authoring mix continued in the CeBit and NAB-fueled mishigoss of March and April, a spring training of sorts for the digital video world. On the pro scene, Apple announced DVD Studio Pro 1.5, a major upgrade to the more sophisticated of its two authoring offerings (the consumer software, iDVD, was updated some months back). The new version offers support for OS X and Pioneer's new A04 DVD-Recorder (which Apple calls the SuperDrive), and continues to fit somewhere between high-end studio solutions like Creator and Scenarist and semipro to amateur solutions like DVDit! and iDVD.
On the amateur side, MedioStream debuted the latest version of neoDVDplus, with new features like "Direct-to-Disc Recording" and "Smart Buffering," and announced new bundling arrangements for neoDVDstandard, including Sony's second-generation DVD+R/RW drives. Sonic Solutions, meanwhile, announced MyDVD 3.5, with a host of new features of its own.
Sonic maintains product offerings at all levels of the DVD authoring world, from the highend Creator and Scenarist studio-ready hardware/software solutions to Fusion and the middle-range Producer and ReeIDVD, corporate tools in the DVDit! family, on down to the MyDVD consumer software found in DVD recorder...