Menu buttons redux

Roche wrote on 4/26/2003, 1:52 AM
Know this was raised before ... but just wanted to raise again how crazy the menu button response is for DVDA. Love the product overall for most of my authoring, but have now played DVDs on 8-9 different players and menu buttons don't work on any of them correctly.

Conversely, Ulead DVD Workshop and Sonic MyDVD menus worked on all the players the way I would expect.

This is a major usability issue and, to date, the SOFO response doesn't work for me.

Comments

DataMeister wrote on 4/26/2003, 10:04 AM
I think Sonic Foundry will eventually end up fixing all of the problems out there and have one of the best DVD authoring programs around. My initial assesment is that they took the route that Adobe used with InDesign. InDesign version 1.0 pretty much sucked. It was like they released version 1 almost as a prerelease beta. Then 6 months later they released a v1.5 upgrade which really improved things.

I'm not saying SoFo is going to release another version in a few months, but with DVD Architect being version 1.0, I imagine that SoFo was wanting to get it out the door and see what the reponses to it were. Sometimes it much easier to design a perfect product after you start using it in real life.

Given SoFo's track record with Vegas, DVD Architect is probably going to turn out to be quite impressive in a couple of versions. Possibly in the next release depending on how many programers they have working on it.

As a suggestion to Sonic Foundry, it would probably be a benefit to you to hire some more programmers if you need them to make DVD-A 2.0 a full featured product. Especially with Adobe releasing Encore this year and the feature it has.

JBJones
Johannes_H wrote on 4/28/2003, 4:59 AM
I just want to double this.
For sure I DONT want to smash against SOFO, the product has a lot of really good features, but this missing functionality with Menu-Buttons makes it complete useless for me.
How can you all do your work without having the menu button working? I cannot imagine how to do?
OK, you can do really simple "only movie" projects or projects with just one menu. But this can be done with each and every simple tool like Ulead MF2 and all the other. My projects allways have more than one menu and mostly there are 3 levels of menues. So you navigate 2 or 3 levels deep, start at a movie chapter - oh, thats the wrong chapter and press menu - ooops, we are back at the top level menu and start again with the navigation down the tree. Thats not acceptable.

So, how you do your projects with some menues some levels deep?
Feedback is welcome.

Johannes
vitalforce2 wrote on 4/28/2003, 11:33 AM
For SoFo: Sneak a peek at the design of the DVD menu authoring features of, of all things, Pinnacle Studio 8.