The Future of DVD-A

dsanders wrote on 2/20/2003, 3:07 PM

Many of the existing DVD Authoring packages come in many flavors. Generally these start with an "LE" or "Lite" version and move from there ending with Hollywood featured version. I was just wondering what Sonic Foundry's plan was for DVD-A. Will the feature set continue to improve - i.e. sub picture definitions, GPRMs, multi language support, region encoding, better navigation control, and so on, or will these more professional features appear in a DVD-A Deluxe Edition?

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johnpete wrote on 2/20/2003, 8:05 PM

Since this is part of the "high end" video package, Vegas 4.0, am assuming they will continue to expand this product as is and maybe offer lower level products later.

As we are all finding out, this is sorely lacking as a DVD authoring tool but its integration with Vegas has a lot of possibilities. I'm sure if we give them good feedback they'll add the kind of features which are required to produce "timeless" DVDs.

I think we're seeing that a DVD authoring tool "isn't as easy" as it looks to produce.

John

jrsunshine wrote on 2/21/2003, 9:39 AM

I am not part of SoFo, but my guess is you will see them trying to get into these other areas of video production. DVD-A is a breath of fresh air compared to the current tired old DVD tools. ULead was certainly on the right track with DVDW and I think SoFo is too. I hope they make DVD-A a premiere DVD production tool and provide years of value as they have with Vegas. I hope for the sake of SoFo's existince that DVD-A and Vegas 4 continue win converts and break the industry snobbery and bias. Vegas is such a great tool.

Roy