VEGAS DVD Architect Steam Edition

The good: Changing media sources (when it works) is pretty easy. The previewing (when it works) is quick, responsive, and helpful. There are interactive, animated tutorials that walk you around the interface. Simple to switch output formats & options. If your media is Blu-Ray compliant, no transcoding/encoding is necessary for the actual movie. Lots of templates if you're into that sort of thing. Keyframing of brightness, contrast and cropping works. I actually made a Blu-Ray. The bad: Fade in and out of a disc intro video works fine in preview, but doesn't actually end up in the exported product. Exporting the video menus takes forever and it doesn't seem to keep anything already generated, so it takes just as long the next time. Tells me I need Quicktime to use an MP4 file. Won't take MKV files. Arrangement/alignment/sizing tools are finicky. Features aren't always well-explained or intuitive. Help and tutorials are limited. You always have to be connected to Steam to use it (naturally, but I hate it). The ugly: Hates the files from my JVC GZ-HM300 video camera no matter what I do, even though they are compliant AVCHD (and work fine with other things) and match the project. As such, it crashes constantly. - Crashes when you click a file to import. - Crashes when you timeline a file. - Crashes when you open a menu to edit. - Crashes when you preview a file. - Crashes when you preview a menu. - Crashes when you return to the main menu while previewing the disc. - Crashes when you "save as". - Crashes when you export to Blu-Ray. - Crashes differently when you export to DVD. - Crashes hard importing m2ts files. Always. - Crashes using a plain extracted 264 stream. - Crashes using a plain extracted AC3 stream. - Crashes when you do anything. - Crashes when you do nothing. - Quite often, it even stays running in the background somewher after it crashes and exits I bought this and Vegas 14 at the same time. They both crash like an alcoholic narcoleptic speeding on the freeway when trying to use my video files, and there doesn't seem to be any way around it without using lossy methods. ***Edit*** - forgot to add, it often errors when previewing, telling me I'm low on memory when it's using like 900MB, and I have 32GB of RAM, and I have hundreds of GB of SSD free. ***Edit 2*** - it also freezes if I go to another program and come back. ***Edit 3*** - This thing was a complete scam. There is ZERO support, the only people in the forums are users wondering why nothing works and getting no answers. No updates in years despite promises made. Most files don't work, even just standard progressive AVC/MPEG4/MPEG2 files, and many files will just crash the program if you try to preview them. The only way to get files that it accepts without recompressing them is to render them from Vegas Pro Edit, which takes forever but makes files 10x the size even just converting from AVC to AVC (and with a lower reported bitrate somehow) so you lose all the disc capacity. You get this message on 99% of working files: "Media is not compliant with the disc format. To avoid recompression, use a compliant MPEG-2 video file." But it gives you NO indication AT ALL why it's wrong, or what it considers a proper format. Literally none. It's a complete crapshoot if your file will load with Vegas Pro or DVDA. Codec support is atrocious. Complete scam.

DVDA is still a Pro-Consumer product ( Big Thumbs Up ) To see what DVD Architect can do ,... play a blu-ray or DVD Hollywood movie disk . Don't watch the movie , stay in the Menu . Navigate the Menu Look at the Thumbnail Buttons , Look at the Settings Menu , the Scene Selection Menu ,...etc That is what you build with DVD Architect ( menus , buttons ) using video , audio and image assets . the assets come from any video editor and paint program . MS13P MS14P originally comes with "DVD Architect Studio" Steam has a better Combo bundle ,... "MS14P with DVD Architect Pro build 7.00.67" aka version 6.0

Otimo para quem ainda usa discos opticos como plataforma audiovisual

i like this software for DVD Creator

I have a very powerfull pc, this crappy sw bombs out permanently and fails to burn blu rays.I also get no support..really a rubbish product..unuasable!!!