We all know it's stopped developing and rare into usage, we just long for nothing but a dark surface.
Can this be a fulfilled fantasy?
I believe the only way you would be able to do that is to actually change the colors in Windows for each of the various pieces displayed on the screen. But that would then change ALL of your installed programs.
... a dark surface.
That would be good. But there would be I think a big trade off if an update to DVDA were to occur - as unlikely as that may be. As per other threads in the Vegas Pro forum, AC3 is no longer available in Vegas Pro 18 apparently due to licencing issues. If there were to be a new update to DVDA, it would probably follow that AC3 would also be no longer available in an update to DVDA. I think that I can live with the existing background color rather than losing AC3 encoding to DVD and BD.
... a dark surface.
That would be good. But there would be I think a big trade off if an update to DVDA were to occur - as unlikely as that may be. As per other threads in the Vegas Pro forum, AC3 is no longer available in Vegas Pro 18 apparently due to licencing issues. If there were to be a new update to DVDA, it would probably follow that AC3 would also be no longer available in an update to DVDA. I think that I can live with the existing background color rather than losing AC3 encoding to DVD and BD.
You can render to WAV or PCM and re-encode to AC3 up to 640Kb/s in DVDA7.
Also, in Vegas pro 17 if you have the two AC3 DLL files (that the program downloads when you activate it from a previous installation that activated when the AC3 codec was working) you can still activate the AC3 codec in vegas pro 17 if you put those two files in the right spot. Worked for me after you couldn't activate the codec anymore. Although it's sort of useless since it's 192Kb/s max. I just use WAV to DVDA7 to recompress to 256-320Kb/s AC3.
And they said DVDA7 is no longer supported and they can't sell it in any way. The only thing they can still do is activate old copies like on disc, or if you already own it. No more updates, it's a dead program unfortunately.
If you need a new program to replace it, try TMPGEnc Authoring Works 6.
I'm not sure where the problem is here regarding audio for BD. I've been rendering to WAV at 48KHz, 16 bit for my BDs for a long time now. I have DVDAS 5.0 and it never has to re-render the audio.