No it will not encode AC-3. You can do that in VV.
I have played with DVD-A but it is like Play School.
It is not a serious DVD app. I still use Spruce Virtuoso.
It just pisses me off that Apple killed it. That is one reason
I hate MAC's! The Media Chance DVD app is from the same people
that made Multi-Media Builder. If they even do a half-ass DVD app.
it will still be better than DVD-A

Hmm...."DVD-A like Play School". I don't think so!

Like every new program I have taken some time to get used to its way of doing things. Thanks mostly to the support offered here by guys who always seem to want to offer help, I have now got to grips with its slightly quirky way of working.
This is a first release, and unlike many other software creators SOFO have produced a pretty stable product. Like all their other products, they are pretty quick in fixing any major hiccups that occur. And they don't pretend there not there!!
The fact is, DVD-A is not trying to be an industrial standard DVD authoring app.
If you want that, go and spend thousands on those programs.
I think that SOFO have struck the right balance between creating a program that has professional features but has kept a user friendly interface.
I work in the graphics industry, and I want tools that give me powerful features but don't require me to work with a primitive, ugly, clumsy frontend!
Apple took Spruce because of its capabilities and gave it a pretty user interface.
A very sensible and successful commercial thing to do, and it paid off for them!
The only problem about the Apple Mac platform is you aren't exactly given much choice of software. So if the DVD authoring app on offer doesn't work, your stuffed!
But Spruce software is now a dead-end for PC users.
I would advise people to spend time getting to grips with actually using DVD-A, and just like many of us did with Vegas, I am sure that after a short while you won't want to consider the alternatives any more.
DVD-A has great potential.
Tho only alternatives are either very expensive with very little more on offer, or silly, very limited programs with crude interface and flaky performance.
Until DVD-A came along I was using DVD Workshop.
The best at the time, but was/is still a bit unstable.
I think SOFO could turn DVD-A from a good program into a superb program given time.
After seeing what they can do with Vegas, I for one will give them that time!

Regards
Organism Seven

Here is the show stopper for me.
I have a main menu. Then a button to go to another menu.
Then that menu might have 6 buttons on it to go to 6 other
menus. Once you go to one of those menus I need a button to
go back to the main menu. You cannot do this with DVD-A
If SOFO sorts out the navigation issue then I might look at it
again. It does not allow for much manual control. Maybe they
could code a version that is all manual.