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Kanst wrote on 4/5/2005, 2:18 AM
IMHO DVDArc3 will be a main bugfix to DVDArc2
jaegersing wrote on 4/5/2005, 4:55 AM
I think you are probably right, but it puts me off buying Sony products again.

sonic one wrote on 4/5/2005, 5:39 AM
yep thats a joke if you ask me.
dvda2 is crap and so will be dvda3
its the first and last sony poduct i will ever have.
a big wast of bucks
great beer coster maker but.
jetdv wrote on 4/5/2005, 7:12 AM
I'm sorry, but I must disagree. DVD Architect has performed admirably on my system. The authoring of the DVD is an easy process. DVDA burns successfully on both of my systems. Obviously this is the case for the majority of owners or these board would be flooded with complaints by many more people.

BTW, when you have burn problems, have you tried different media? I had someone who I started using DVDA and it worked great for them. I suddenly got a call from them one day saying it wouldn't burn - the only think different was that they had purchased a different brand of media. They went back to another brand and all worked well again. So remember that not all DVD media is created equally.

Here's looking forward to the great new features that will be in DVDA3!!!
jaegersing wrote on 4/5/2005, 5:29 PM
I don't burn DVDs directly from DVDA2, so media is not my problem. The main grouse I have is related to the way that it handles separate video/audio streams. If I exit a project and reopen it later, DVDA2 interprets the video files as 16:9 even though they are really 4:3. If a DVD is made from this it goes through an unwanted recompression step to make the output 4:3.

This is a known bug, acknowledged by Sony tech support, and there is a workaround of deleting the video preview files before opening the project. However, this causes delays because DVD2 has to recreate the preview files every time the project is opened.

Maybe if the bugs in DVDA3 affect your workflow you will not be so upbeat about waiting for (and paying for) DVDA4 in order to have them fixed?

Richard