Rivergate Software Inc. - makers of DVDAfterEdit

This is a release for Mastering Edition only, which fixes a bug in the ISO Directory back pointers. This bug prevents proper playback of DVD's pre-mastered with DVDAfterEdit in Yamakawa DVD players, which rely on the ISO rather than the UDF Directory. This is not a problem for most other DVD players.

Thank you Robert Schneider of GLS Studios and Peter Sabath of X-Protect for providing us with a detailed description of this problem.

Releases 3.0.3 and earlier have been removed from the download page.

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 practice 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.