Actually, the answer is YOU CAN'T. This functionality is not currently in DVDA.

The real answer would have been to use SEARCH and you would have found the answer. People get tired of answering the same question 50 or more times a month.

Nobody seems to know the answer.

I agree with Billy on this one. It's not that nobody seems not to have known the answer - we ALL know the answer to that question as it comes up at least 14 times a week.

And even though this is a great forum for getting information - people get lazy and don't want to do a search prior to asking the same questions over and over.

Lastly - I thought for sure this was a forum for DVDA, not DVD Workshop. Or did I miss a memo that went out or something? I mean it is nice that people feel compelled to let us know what is going on with other applications - but....if I wanted to know about DVDWOrkshop I'd go to their site and post questions.

I'm going to go to the "P" forum and ask a question about Vegas and see how I'm received. <wink>

Well I'm a certified Sonic Foundry fan but I still like to know what other products are capable of. As long as it's in context I think it's absolutely right to compare DVDA with others.

To a certain extent yes, I agree. However the one thing I've noticed about this forum that unlike the Vegas forum is the constant din about other DVD Authoring software. For sure I and others have been critical of what in our opinion we think were missing or not that well designed features which is fair. What really is beyond and that's frequent is endless references to product X, Y and Z.

After all, this isn't a public newsgroup or a public forum like VCD/DVD Help. It is a forum for peer to peer support HOSTED by Sonic Foundy, now Sony and we should keep that in mind and stay more focused on how to use DVD Architect.

What I'm saying is in my opinion there's too much of I use such and such because of blah, blah, blah. What anyone uses and why may be useful but on balance a few posters seemed to have gone out of their way to talk about product X, Y, Z and rarely if ever post anything about what the forum is about which is DVD-A.

I wish SOFO would throw us a bone and let us know whether this dog is going to be updated or not soon. As the release of Encore gets closer it is starting to sound pretty appealing. Yes... I know this is not an Adobe forum. I'm not praising Encore since I've never used it, but I would appreciate a glimmer of hope that our investment in DVD-A will pay off with a few really needed improvements soon. If we could even hear that it was going to happen at least we could hold out...

Tom

Wishful thinking. Software companies don't announce WHEN a new release is coming or what it will have until shortly before it IS released. I would think three reasons as least. If the say OK, version two will be released on 10/1, then sales of the current version will take a hit, everyone waiting for the new release. Second, what happens when they say 10/1 and it turns into 11/1 then 12/1 or later? Of course that's typical with Microsoft that hasn't ever released a version of Windows on time yet. SoFo isn't a 800 pound gorilla like Microsoft is. Third, what if they say the new release with have X, Y, Z, features and for whatever reason they decide to pull a feature? Then they have egg all over their face for promising something they can't deliver on.

I agree that this is not a misc. DVD forum and admit I am very guilty of making comparisons between DVD-A and other programs. Won't do it again. However, as I have paid for two (2) instances of the DVD-A I sure do hope the next version will be feature packed to meet even Billyboy's exacting standards becasue if that is the case, DVD-A 2.0 will be an excellent tool.

Peter

Ah... but they've already done that with DVD-A verison 1 :) I am a major fan of SOFO software (I have several packages), but I don't think that DVD-A represents them well. I would think they would be wanting to fix that problem before yet another big competitor comes out with something that might hurt them. I probably wouldn't care and just quietly use something else except that, like I said, I am a huge SOFO fan and if DVD-A just had a couple of things fixed there would be no reason to switch. It was acknowledged in this thread and MANY others that the lack of end actions is a significant, well, um, lack in the product. Many people consider this to be a "basic" feature that is missing froma high end product. That's a little different than not just having some high end feature.

Alas, you are correct though. I've been in the software business for many years and I understand the dynamic. There are two processes at play ... 1) Introduce too late and people will move to a better product 2) Introduce too early and people will hold you to your promise and be angry if you don't release on time.

Tom