ATI Graphics Card Buyer's Guide 2006, Part II

Tools And Software, Continued

The Edit module allows you to arrange and synchronization video, images, sounds and effects. It also offers a selection of transitions and image effects, as well as titles. An audio mixer and voice-over recording feature round the module off, enabling users to add audio commentary to documentary-style movies.

Next, the Produce module lets users convert the result of the previous steps into a Mini-DVD, DVD, VCD or SVCD. Additionally, the movies can also be saved as DV-AVI, Windows AVI, MPEG1 or MPEG2 files, played back to DV tape, or turned into a streaming file. Attempts to switch to the Burn module yield an error message informing us that Power Producer is not installed. Those that want to burn their movies to a disc can use the other bundled program, Power2Go.

Power2Go is a burning program for files, videos, pictures and sounds. The user interface is easy to use, and integrated tools help users with tasks such as erasing rewritable media and audio ripping and conversion. An image recorder saves user-created projects.