I’m working with Vegas 3.0 – 4.0 for about a year. Now the time has come to transfer the results to DVD. Of course, my first choice was DVD Architect (hereafter DVDA). Not very good choice I guessed. I’m working with PAL everywhere (from camcorder to TV) and I immediately detected a DVDA’s (and Vegas's) perverted love of NTSC. One has to adjust respective parameter every time in more that one place, Vegas always try to force using NTSC. Well, no great loss without some small gain, so I accurately kill now all NTSC option whenever I meet it in every software. But DVDA annulled even this small gain! When I was preparing my first DVD I carefully examined the GUI and selected PAL. Unfortunately the produced DVD (say DVD+RW) was “crooked”, the picture jerked when the disk played in a DVD player. Examination of the disk with SmartRipper showed it is NTSC (!) disk coded as MPEG1 (!!). My colleagues using Scenarist software laughed at me…
Please, tell me what should I do to begin laughing at Scenarist users? It looks like DVDA incorrectly uses some flags. Maybe I can solve the problem via Windows Registry correction? Tell me where! But maybe DVDA is for NTSC users only? Well, I’ll find another DVD authoring program. But Sonic Foundry’s environment (Sound Forge – CD Architect - Vegas Video – DVD Architect) looks so comfortable! I like comfort!
P.S. DVDA version 1.0c, all the source materials were processed as PAL.
P.P.S. Special question to DVDA team: WHY DVDA accepts program streams only (NOT elementary streams)? And more, WHEN DVDA will accept elementary streams as well?