New Features coming up

bStro wrote on 8/21/2006, 2:08 PM
Vegas 7 & DVDA 4 available in September (probably being announced / released during a New York event which I've forgotten the name of).

Most of the new Vegas features / enhancements look beyond my needs (I haven't even got a DV camera at the moment (had one, it died) let alone an HDV one or a Decklink). But the new DVDA features look cool -- most of the stuff people have been asking for.

Scripting
Buttons on video
Graphical subtitles
Random playback

And "Keyframeable transformations, crop, and effects," which is starting to sound dangerously close to turning DVDA into an editor, if you ask me.

Maybe they'll finally let us buy / upgrade DVDA without buying / upgrading Vegas...? Unlike the last two upgrades, I definitely can't afford to buy this one on Day One of the release.

Rob

Comments

JJKizak wrote on 8/21/2006, 2:22 PM
What about Bluray and HD-DVD?
JJK
TheHappyFriar wrote on 8/21/2006, 7:47 PM
where's the features listing?
ScottW wrote on 8/22/2006, 6:26 AM
They already have a product for Blu-Ray:

http://www.sonymediasoftware.com/news/ShowRelease.asp?ReleaseID=634&CatID=

I personally think it unlikely that you'll see support anytime soon for HD-DVD authoring. I just can't see Sony lending any support to the format unless it wins the format war.

As far as DVDA and Blu-Ray go - given the current cost of burnable media and the lack of reasonably priced players, I don't know why people are so interested in the format. Heck, given DVDA's track record with burning media correctly, I am not going to even think about making $20 coasters for a long time.

Now, maybe if I could author Blu-Ray but burn to a DVD which would play on a reasonably priced Blu-Ray player (assuming my project was small enough) I might consider it strictly for learning; not sure how much there would be to learn though, since I expect that the first pass at authoring for the masses will be pretty simplistic.

--Scott
bStro wrote on 8/22/2006, 6:42 AM
They cut down the "teaser" page so that it doesn't list the new features anymore. Guess maybe someone jumped the gun earlier. I was a bit surprised to see it before the new version was announced / released.

Rob
TheHappyFriar wrote on 8/22/2006, 6:56 AM
boy, two sucky things in your post. a) $50k for us to author blue ray & b) another person beliving sony will tell us we're SOL on HDDVD.

you're right, odds are we aren't going to be doing it any time soon, but with Vegas 4 what was the point of 2048x2048 max res? Because we COULD use it IF we needed it. Now the there's the huge difference between the "indy video profesional" & the "studio" that was there before DV & home DVD authoring came in to being.

i'm betting NOW we will see the downside to Sony buying out SF. Instead of a feature rich set of software we'll have sony friendly software that works to make sony have a one up on their competition & not give us (the consumers) the one up on OUR competition.
ScottW wrote on 8/22/2006, 9:40 AM
Sony's strength isn't in web page authoring (which is basically what I understand authoring for HD-DVD is like); my guess is that Dreamweaver (or something similar) will end up being the prefered HD-DVD authoring WYSIWYG.

--Scott