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PD7 Observations and Issues
Wildview [Avatar]
Newbie Joined: Oct 25, 2007 14:49 Messages: 32 Offline
[Post New] Jun 03, 2008 10:05
I’ve been using this software for a bit now and it’s pretty well designed and has about everything you could want all in one unlike most other DVD authoring software . I have noticed a couple issues though that just wanted to post mainly for the developers.

1. I have noticed sometimes that the timeline plays out of sync even after creating a disk. For example, I had problem where I had a couple of photos with transitions in between followed by an mpeg video. When the second photo in the timeline was visible it started playing the audio from the video clip before it was even to that video sequence, so when it got to the video clip the sound and video were out of sync since the sound was playing way before the video. I had to delete all the photos and that video clip and reinsert them and it was ok again. Not sure why this happened. One thing I did do though when I was authoring the disk was select all photos in the timeline and click on duration to globally change the duration on all photos. This is a nice feature by the way that wasn’t in the V6, but this might be where a bug is. Not sure.

2. I have noticed after creating a new menu template, every time I go into my new template just to modify only, it always wants to save it again with a new thumbnail and it create a whole new template. I don’t really like this feature, if it is one, since its creates a bunch of templates every time I just modify it. I hope this gets changed.

Thanks,
Robert

This message was edited 5 times. Last update was at Jun 03. 2008 11:15

Wildview [Avatar]
Newbie Joined: Oct 25, 2007 14:49 Messages: 32 Offline
[Post New] Jun 08, 2008 14:06
BTW,

This is a followup to the timeline playing out of sequence bug listed above. I have reproduced this problem and it's a bug and related with selecting multiple photos and changing the duration. This will throw out the seqence of your audio on video clips that follow in the Timeline. If you change the duration one by one, its ok, But if you select more than one, the play sequence is all messed up. So don't do it until they fix it.

Suggestion - When you fix this bug, please add a check box in the duration dialog to allow users to change all photos in the timeline. Right now its a hassle if you forget to change the default duration setting of 5sec you add a lot photos. Selecting one by one is too time consuming. So please add this if possible in the next service patch.

Thanks,
Robert

This message was edited 2 times. Last update was at Jun 08. 2008 14:09

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