Rivergate Software Inc. - makers of DVDAfterEdit

1. Allows multiple selections in the Title Play List and PGC List areas at the top of the right pane. This can greatly reduce the amount of work required to drag cells to PGC's, etc.

2. Copying and pasting of project commands to and from text files has been improved. Previously, cell commands were copied to and from the PGC's, but their callouts from the individual cells were forgotten.

Now, the cell command index and what it points to are captured in the copy operation. On paste, it attempt to paste back into the same index. However, if that command index in the destination PC does not contain the same instruction, it look for the command at any other index of the cell commands. If it finds one, it uses that index. If the original command is not found in the list, then a new command is added to the cell commands and the cell is set to point to that entry.

The idea is that you can delete the cell commands list from the copied text and the cells will rebuid any necessary commands. Under normal circumstances, the indexes will remain the same (because they will match the original list).

The copying and pasting of button commands to and from Nav Packs now uses the Nav Pack number relative to the containing cell, rather than the absolute Nav Pack number. This means that it is now possible to copy commands between projects of greatly differing video sizes, as long as the cell structure is the same. For example, this feature was used to copy the commands from "The Quick and Dirty Guide to Pilates" actual DVD to the Template project built with stills, and then back again.

3. There was an interlock error in making changes from the Format/Copy dialog during pre-mastering. Creating a DLT or DDP image could proceed before the changes were saved to the hard drive, so that the changes were not included in the image. This error has been fixed.

The following are known issues:

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. Sometimes when attempting to Format a new DLT tape, the message "Media in tape drive unrecognized" or "Format Failed" will be seen. Some workarounds are suggested here:
   "Media in tape drive unrecognized"
3. SPRM 7 (PTT) does not update when previewing in Tracer.
4. 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.