Major Flaw in DVD Architect

StormMarc wrote on 7/2/2005, 11:31 PM

Motion menus made in Vegas (to DVD Architect specs) that look great when played on the Vegas timeline are turned to mush when used in DVD Architect. Note: These motion menus look fine when in DVD Architect preview mode but look terrible once burned to a DVD.

Alternate option of bringing in the AVI file and letting DVD Architect compress at 8000CBR is no better. Note: My other MPEG files (non motion menus)were compressed at 4200-8000 VBR in Vegas and look great.

This problem makes the DVD Architect useless to me and now I must rerender everything for Reel DVD because it requires closed GOPS but can handle motion menus with ease.

Too bad. I thought I had found a good replacement. Sony please fix this.

Marc

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PeterWright wrote on 7/21/2005, 10:22 PM

I think No.1 is closest Scott ;) The edges of the text have an uncrisp, fluffy,compressed look.

As I said, after all the criticism it's received, The Vegas Text Generator produced beautiful looking Titles with crisp clear edges. I would love the Menus to look like that.

plasmavideo wrote on 7/22/2005, 3:30 PM

Peter, I believe your "wooly" term is the best description of what I've seen as well.

Thanks!

StormMarc wrote on 7/25/2005, 12:28 PM

Bump

ForumAdmin wrote on 8/29/2005, 8:07 AM

Thanks to all of you who posted about the issue of menu text not being crisp in DVD Architect.

The reason you are experiencing this is that DVD Architect forces menu titles to be rendered as progressive. This is because some DVD players will incorrectly show the last frame of an interlaced menu if you choose the "Hold" menu end action option. So, for best results, bring your menu video footage into DVD Architect as a progressive AVI file or similar.

In an upcoming update we will add an option that allows overriding this behavior in DVD Architect, so that you can author interlaced menus.

plasmavideo wrote on 8/31/2005, 10:34 AM

Thanks for the explanation and note about the later upgrade!

StormMarc wrote on 9/2/2005, 9:59 AM

Thanks Sony,

Glad to know it will be solved.

Marc

ken c wrote on 9/4/2005, 4:00 AM

Why did it take nearly 2 months for a reply from Sony?

Tech support answers should come in hours (or 2-3 days at worst), not 7 weeks!

Explanation, Sony?

Initial problem reported:
Subject: Major Flaw in DVD Architect
Posted by: StormMarc
Date: 7/3/2005 2:31:26 AM

Sony's answer 2 months later:
Subject: RE: Major Flaw in DVD Architect
Reply by: ForumAdmin
Date: 8/29/2005 11:07:47 AM

Most major software companies, like Macromedia and Adobe, answer their users' tech issues same-day on their forums. What's the explanation for such slow response time from Sony??

Ken

TheHappyFriar wrote on 9/4/2005, 6:07 AM

they posted when they fixed the problem. I don't see ANY problem with that. Much better then "thanks for telling up. Be sure to buy the next .5 update to getthe fix!"

ken c wrote on 9/4/2005, 6:21 AM

It's great that there's so many helpful users here.

ken

plasmavideo wrote on 11/4/2005, 8:09 PM

I'm still getting mushy menus, no matter how I change the settings between progressive or interlaced, anti-flicker or not, and this is with text created in DVDA over a still image, not imported video, so I don't know what, if anything, I'm doing wrong.