DVD Architect no longer in development?

[Steve Rhoden]

I am sure whomever made that comment does not work at
Sony Creative Software, nor represent them.

Steve Rhoden
(Cow Leader)
Film Editor & Compositor.
Filmex Creative Media.
1-876-832-4956

[John Rofrano]

[Mark Krueger] “I just read on a thread where someone said that Sony is no longer developing DVD architect. “

It’s true there hasn’t been an update in a while but they are still selling it with Vegas Pro 12.0 so it’s still a supported product. What more would you like to see added to it? It’s a good basic DVD authoring tool.

~jr

http://www.johnrofrano.com
http://www.vasst.com

[Ken Mitchell]

It would be nice if they added the create to flash feature that Adobe has in Encore.

[Steve Rhoden]

I think they can make further development for DVD Architect.

Steve Rhoden
(Cow Leader)
Film Editor & Compositor.
Filmex Creative Media.
1-876-832-4956

[Graham Bernard]

Its Graphics manipulation could very well be overhauled. Much work to do there.

1] I want to throw a 3 Layered PSD at it and it just deal with making a Button. The naming of layers is archaic. I just want it to work.

2] I want to be able to move text boxes the way I want to. The same way I move the Graphical items using Transformation. I’d like to apply FX-ing to the Text.

3] I would like a similar Project Media pane as in Vegas. As it uses Graphical assets, how about Thumbnails of the Graphical assets? Or even the MPGs?

4] Mouse Thumb-wheel to make the Timeline Cursor work? My CSP does it. Maybe this is a Preference option?

5] Timeline Sync to the Crop and Adjust Pane Timeline. Really find that frustrating.

6] “Take” options to the Audio Timeline. I’d like to Audition Sound Tracks?

7] More of a Bug than an Idea: Preview on 2nd Monitor. I used to have this but it is broke. I can Identify my 2nd Monitor taking the feed – 1 and 2 – but no Preview. Also, I can Preview on my External CRT! But not on the 2nd Monitor.

8] I’d like to have more control of the Graphics that would take the place of say, the Underlining: Navigate from one Button to another and be able to easily elect for “another” type of underline – maybe an underline of my own making? Like a “swish . . . . ”

Thanks for asking John!

Grazie

[Nigel O’neill]

[Steve Rhoden] “I think they can make further development for DVD Architect.”

My biggest beef with DVDA is that it still appears to run as a single threaded application. When creating a DVD image or whatever, only 1 core in task manager shows up as being busy, the rest are idle. When you have 4, 8, 12 or 16 cores at your disposal, looming deadlines and only 1 core is busy, it makes you wonder how much quicker things would be if all cores were being utilised.

[Steve Rhoden]

All solid suggestions Graham, those are some of the features
that warrants further development and improvement.

Steve Rhoden
(Cow Leader)
Film Editor & Compositor.
Filmex Creative Media.
1-876-832-4956

[Mark Krueger]

Glad to hear that Sony has not abandoned this software. I don’t know enough about what is out there to compare it to. I am generally happy with it… would be nice if it were a bit faster… addition of more backgrounds….

[Gilles Gagnon]

I agree,
it seems odd that no updates have emerged alongside the Vegas Pro evolution.

Gilles

[Steve Rhoden]

I assume they had their hands filled with Vegas and Soundforge,
and will soon now follow with development for it.

Steve Rhoden
(Cow Leader)
Film Editor & Compositor.
Filmex Creative Media.
1-876-832-4956