Rivergate Software Inc. - makers of DVDAfterEdit

1. The Apple link for downloading the QuickTime MPEG2 Playback component changed. Now there are two versions, one for QuickTime 6 and one for QuickTime 7. The link is given in a dialog box if the component is missing.

2. There was another bug in saving when the automatic "Fix Sectors" command discovered a problem after the title manager was already saved. This could result in the fixed values not being saved on the disk, which in turn could lead to improper values on a DLT or DDP image.

3. Bugs when importing multi-angle video and broken time maps have been fixed.

4. Audio and sub-picture streams now allow editing of the "Stream available" flag. This can be very useful for doing some neat things, which Michael Lazar will explain later in these release notes and in the discussion forum.

5. DVD's can have Titles without Chapters (PTT's). Tracer has now been fixed to jump the beginning of the PGC in this case.

The following are known issues:

Standard/Demo/Mastering

1. The program will not open certain Hollywood Seamless Branching releases, such as "Terminator 2 Ultimate Edition", and Alien 2004 "Quadrilogy" box set, Pal region 2 versions. This is because they use a method that, while it does not technically violate the DVD Video Spec, was unexpected and not allowed for by the program. This error will never come up in DVD's authored by by commercially available authoring systems.
2. RECOMMENDATION : It is good practise to trash the project preferences whenever opening a fresh re-build of a project. This ensures that all the correct "pre-flight checks" are made before you continue working.
3. SPRM 7 (PTT) does not always update correctly when previewing in Tracer.
4. Tracer may freeze at the end of a motion menu where the Cell Playback Mode is set to "Continuous". Workaround - Select the motion menu's cell in the Left Pane. Change it's "Cell playback mode" to Go "VobUStill", then re-select "Continuous". This issue should only affect Tracer, not the final behaviour of the disc.
5. Tracer may hang when trying to execute button commands such as "Jump VTS TT 1 PTT XX"
6. A forced button number of 63 should activate the last selected button in a PGC. Tracer does not reflect this behaviour correctly
7. Drag and drop in the Title Map Editor is not working correctly, and may cause DVDAE to crash. WORKAROUND : Perform all Title PGC editing using the contextual menus in the Left Pane.
8. In Step or Stride, Tracer will pause video preview when it encounters a Break command.WORKAROUND : Click the Play button to resume video playback. Confirm the command works as expected by testing in Run mode.

Mastering Edition Only

1. If Macrovision copy-protection is set in the Format/Copy dialogue, but CSS is disabled, the tape will be written without Macrovision. WORKAROUND : Write the DLTs with CSS and Macrovision. Ask the replicator to ignore the CSS flag and write the tapes without CSS.
2. Sometimes when attempting to Format a new DLT tape, the message "Media in tape drive unrecognized" or "Format Failed" will be seen. WORKAROUND: Media in tape drive unrecognized
3. Choosing DLT as the Source of a Compare operation on a dual-layer project may cause a failure even though the tapes have been written correctly. WORKAROUND: Always choose the DLT drive as the Destination for compare operations.
4. On some systems DVDAfterEdit ME may crash if there is insufficient disk space for a restore operation.
5. DVDAE may crash when trying to write a DLT or image if the project is not also open in the main program window. WORKAROUND : Always open the project in the main window before writing projects.
6. ( Fixed in release 3.05d1 ) Some "Plant Direct" DDP images split the DDPID information between the DDPID and the DDPMS file. DVDAE cannot restore this type of file yet. WORKAROUND : Using the terminal, then you can join the two MAIN.DAT files into a single .img file using this command: cat MyPath/Layer0/MAIN.DAT MyPath/Layer1/MAIN.DAT > /joinedMAIN.img - which you should then be able to mount in order to get the files out. MyPath is the path to your enclosing folder.