Features you'd like to see in a DVD Architect update

Sticky Fingaz wrote on 12/30/2004, 4:08 PM

Hopefully the fine folks at Sony read this and will see what their customers want. DVD Architect 2 is the best DVD Authoring program I have ever used, however a few things would make it flawless to me:

1) Dual layer support (duh)

2) Delayed buttons (that is where I can tell DVD Architect to not allow a button to be visible until X amount of seconds...seems very easy to impliment as well as making the program so much more professional with it).

Some other features I'd love, but aren't life changing:

DLT writing (this makes it 100% professional in my opinion), VBR encoding and well, I can't think of anything else. Other than that the program is flawless.

What's everyone else's opinion on what they'd love to see in an update?

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cworld29 wrote on 3/15/2005, 11:53 PM

I think the confusion with this is that people want to be able to animate the image. If we could animate the button mask along with the thumbnail we could do this.

When people say you can already do this they refer to the fact that there is an animated button set in the themes. Notice that the images themselves are not animated just the color. You can do this.

So basicaly what we need is animated button masks. I think this would give us the functionality we are looking for.

J.B. Nystrup wrote on 3/16/2005, 9:11 AM

"Other than the fact that DTS provides lots better audio quality. I wouldn't say "Generally, if" - dolby is required, DTS is optional."

I totally agree. Anyone who'd payd attention to soundformats would know, that DTS provides superb audio quality compared to dolby.

Untill dvd architect supports dts I would not even consider it as a semiprofessionel authoring tool.

Kanst wrote on 3/16/2005, 10:43 AM

About multy line subtitles: pressing main keyboard Enter create a new text line!
Needed
1. Changing subtitles color for every word (for creating karaoke subtitles).
2. Encoded DTS audio support (may be optional DTS encoder).
3. DVD-AUDIO (may be optional MPL encoder)
4. Reading and remuxing VOB streams
5. Bugfix incorrect aspect ratio preview after opening previously saved project with elementary video streams (m2v ets)
6. Time delayed menu buttons
7. Start animation of only selected menu button
8. Setting an unical menu background picture (may be jump to next frame of background video) for each selected button
9. Setting In&Out points for menu background video
10. Playlist creation tool
11. MPEG1 audio & video support (for make DVD from old VCD material without video re-encoding)
12. Full control encoder settings (including 2-pass VBR)
13. Dual layer media support
14. Full anamorfic widescreen video support
15. Overlay for preview through video out of graphic adapter

think that's all yet

Kanst wrote on 3/23/2005, 11:16 AM

16. Creating DVDs with both Pal & NTSC videos.

bStro wrote on 3/23/2005, 12:28 PM

Creating DVDs with both Pal & NTSC videos.

Not gonna happen, since this isn't supported by the DVD-Video specs.

Just use DVDPatcher on one of the files to make DVDA think it's a format it's not.

Rob

Kanst wrote on 3/24/2005, 11:06 AM

I try it once, but has a problem while previwing in Architect.
Finally made parts in DVDArc, then merge in IfoEdit, but with a simple menu.

bStro wrote on 3/24/2005, 11:12 AM

Yeah, I got that, too. It only seems to show up in the preview, though. Final DVD was okay.

Rob

Kanst wrote on 3/24/2005, 11:42 AM

Yes, I know. But without preview so hard to put markers for episode selection menu. Thus
17. An ability to read marker's timepoints from external .txt or/and .ifo files.