Corel DVD Copy 6 Plus takes care of the basics-no fuss, no muss. It certainly does copy DVDs and can do a ton of conversions with no problems.

As far as the more advanced capabilities that the program includes, the story isn't quite as rosy for the time being. While Corel DVD Copy 6 Plus is indisputably powerful, it's not quite the grand, unified encoding powerhouse that it could be. But there's an incredible amount of promise here. We say, give it a little time (at least one update pack's worth) and it should be right up there with the TMPG, discreet, Canopus and Sorenson tools.

System requirements: 1.8GHz CPU (3.0GHz recommended), 512MB RAM (1GB recommended), Windows XP SP2 or Windows Vista, 200MB hard drive space, sound card, DVD burner
Input file support: AVI, MPG, M2v, MPEG-1, MPEG-2, MPEG-4, H.264, QuickTime, ASF, WMV, DVR-MS, 3GPP/3GPP2, DivX, Xvid, TiVo, DVD-Video, DVD+VR, DVD-VR, VCD, SVCD, AVCHD
Output file support: MPEG-1, MPEG-2, MPEG-4, H.264, WMV, DivX, WMA, WAV, DVD-Video, DVD+VR, DVD-VR, VCD, SVCD, iPod, iPhone, PSP, Zune, cell phone

• Straightforward interface
• Support for wide array of formats

• 16:9 encoding problems

A well-honed DVD copier, with video conversion capabilities that are almost there.

Charles Fulton is Videomaker's Associate Editor.

Corel Corporation
1600 Carling Ave.
Ottawa, ON K1Z 8R7
Canada
www.corel.com

$50