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DVD Architect no longer in development?
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[Gilles Gagnon] “it seems odd that no updates have emerged alongside the Vegas Pro evolution.”
Ummm…if it ain’t broke, don’t fix it? 🙂
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As long as we’re wishing… I would like it to be easier to create buttons in Photoshop as Graham said, and easier to create templates. Just this week I saved a template for my chapter layouts and then applied it to all of the scene selection pages, only to find it changed the chapter names on all of my scene selection pages to match the one I had saved! Argh!!! This is not how the normal templates work and I’m glad I caught it before I made duplicates to give to the customer (it was a run of 25 DVD’s).
~jr
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John is correct. I’ve wanted that too.
If SCS wishes to form an early BETA, for registering better user input, I’m up for it.
SONY now have a great option for bashing down the doors on a new slippery sexy DVDA. Are they hungry enough to do it? Let’s see!?!
Grazie
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That was probably me.
They have done occasional maintenance updates, like the recent one bundled with Vegas 12. But little has happened in a long time: DVD Architect 5.0 came out in 2008… the small 5.2 update came out in 2010. This clearly has not seen any active development in a long time.
Do I know that they’re NOT about to release a DVDA 6.0 with hundreds of new features? Of course not. However, having worked in hardware and software development since the 80s, I know what it looks like.
What could they add? How about missing DVD features? How about multiple title sets? Even some little details; some of the more advanced tricks you can do with DVD, like using transparency in various ways, either isn’t supported on DVD, or works there but isn’t faithfully reproduced on the Blu-ray model (what you use to author in DVDA is basically an abstraction layer Sony builds over the “guts” of the DVD and BD standards.. some of the early programs didn’t do this, so while you didn’t have any of the nicer automatic features, you could do anything DVD was capable of doing, which is not true of DVDA).
How about actual Blu-ray features? DVDA has the whole “make a DVD or Blu-ray that look the same” thing pretty well nailed. How about Pop-ups, for example?
And the user interface is ancient… it’s actually a bit more primitive than some of the early tools I used, like Impression. More features, absolutely, but there’s no tree view of the whole project, no way to graphically add things in such a view or introduce an asset without dropping it somewhere first, etc. Play with Adobe Encore a little, you’ll see what you’re missing. Or BluPrint. Or DoStudio.
And those latter applications are also setting limits on what Sony’s ever going to do with DVDA. If they make DVDA too good, how are they going to sell DoStudio? This is exactly the kind of problem that allows suites like Sony’s or Adobe’s to advance much faster than, say, Avid’s, since Avid had to put artificial limits on their lower-end tools to protect the high end saleability, while the companies without a higher program didn’t.
-Dave
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Why? Flash is a dying format.
Sony could put flash into either Vegas or DVDA, but considering how few people are still using Flash, why saddle all users with the license fee?Adobe can afford the licensing since they own Flash.
Steve Mann
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Well, they should just copy Ulead DVD Workshop…pity Corel decided to kill it..
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