• 1.0 Welcome
• 2.0 What’s New
• 3.0 Known Issues
• 4.0 System Requirements
• 5.0 Installation
• 6.0 DVD Architect User Manual
• 7.0 Demos
• 8.0 Contacting Sony Pictures Digital Inc.

Applicable to boxed products only. If you've purchased a downloadable product, an Adobe Acrobat (PDF) version of the product documentation is available from our Web site.

Notable Changes/Fixes in Version 2.0b

• A bug has been fixed that could prevent burning to -R/-RW media when using the Matsushita UJ-810 drive.
• A bug has been fixed that could prevent burning to -RW media when using the LG/Iomega GSA-4081B drive.
• A bug has been fixed that would prevent saving of chapter markers to MPEG files from the Timeline window.
• A bug has been fixed that prevented preview on an external 4:3 NTSC monitor until you reapplied the NTSC DV setting in the Format drop-down list on the Video Device tab of the Preferences dialog.

Notable Changes/Fixes in Version 2.0a

• A bug has been fixed that caused the Explorer window to lose its Favorites settings if the list was too long. Favorites are now saved in the following file: C:\Documents and Settings\<username>\Application Data\Sony\DVD Architect\2.0\ExplorerFavorites.txt. The file is saved whenever you close the Explorer window or exit the application. You can copy the file to different computers or user accounts to migrate Favorites settings.
  To see this file, you must have the Show hidden files and folders radio button selected on the View tab of the Folder Options Control Panel.
• A bug has been fixed that could prevent text-only buttons from being displayed on a burned DVD when a video was used as the menu background.
• A bug has been fixed that caused projects with 24p menus to fail during disc preparation.
• A bug has been fixed that could cause audio to drop out when previewing files from the Media Explorer window.
• Video performance has been improved during project preview.
• DVD Architect software now checks your project for overly complex subtitles and menu highlight masks before preparing the disc.
• A bug has been fixed that prevented still menus with audio from looping.
• A bug has been fixed that incorrectly considered some menus with text and graphics as compliant. This could result in missing text, buttons, and graphics on menus.
• A bug has been fixed that could cause audio to play back at an accelerated rate on some DVD players when using 24-bit PCM audio.
• A bug that could cause broken or incorrect chapter links when opening a DVD Architect 1.0 project has been fixed.
• A bug has been fixed that caused external monitor preferences to be discarded when using a 16:9 external monitor.
• A bug has been fixed that prevented markers from being loaded from elementary video streams (.m2v) rendered in Vegas software.
• A bug has been fixed that caused DVD Architect to crash when previewing or preparing a disc while the application was building peaks for an AC-3 file.
• A bug that caused DVD Architect to recompress some compliant media when loading a DVD Architect 1.0 project has been fixed.

What's New in Version 2.0

• End actions for menus and media files
• Multiple audio tracks
• Subtitle support
• User-defined navigation for each button
• Enable/suspend of DVD player remote control buttons during menus, media files, picture slideshows, and music compilations.
• Improved masking for buttons and frames (available in the Graphics controls in the Button Properties settings).
• Elementary stream import
• External monitor preview
• Streamlined menu and object properties editing
• Copy media with project during project save
• No encoding of compliant menu pages
• Support for 24p MPEG files and preparation of 24p DVD projects
• Menu transitions via end actions

• If you open a DVD Architect 1.0 project in DVD Architect 2.0, please save it immediately with a new name. DVD Architect 2.0 projects will not open in DVD Architect 1.0.
• If you connect an external DVD burner while DVD Architect is running, the drive will not be available until you restart the application.
• Attempting to access your DVD burner (by browsing with Windows Explorer, searching the drive, or starting an application that scans for available drives, for example) while burning your project can cause burning to fail. 
• External monitor output is for visualizing colors, menu layout, and safe areas only and is not an indication of playback synchronization of the final burned disc.
• The Macromedia Flash (SWF) reader plug-in does not read files saved as Flash 6.0 or higher. Please save your files in the Flash 5 format.
• Flash files that contain Actionscript or motion video will not be interpreted correctly by the Flash reader plug-in.
• If you have a Sony DRU-500a/510a or an LG/Iomega GSA-4081B DVD burner, you may experience problems opening the drive tray after burning a disc. To resolve this issue, right click the drive from My Computer or Windows Explorer and choose Eject from the shortcut menu. The drive tray will then function normally.

• Microsoft® Windows® 2000 or XP
• 500 MHz processor
• 150 MB hard-disk space for program installation
• 128 MB RAM
• Windows-compatible sound card
• CD-ROM drive (for installation from a CD only)
• Supported DVD-r/-rw/+r/+rw drive
• Microsoft DirectX® 8 or later
• Internet Explorer 5.0 or later  

DVD Architect software has been tested with a wide range of drives and should work with most DVD recordable drives.

To test DVD burning with your system, you can download a sample project that has been prepared for burning. This is available on the download page. From the File menu, choose Make DVD, click the Burn button, and browse to the prepared project folder.

1. Place the DVD Architect CD-ROM in the drive. AutoPlay displays an installation menu.

   If you have disabled the CD-ROM AutoPlay feature, click the Start button and choose Run. Type D:\setup.exe, where D is the drive letter of your CD-ROM drive, and follow the on-screen prompts to complete the installation.

2. Click Install, and then follow the on-screen prompts to install the appropriate version of DVD Architect for your computer.

1. Download the install utility from our Web site.
2. Double-click the file, and then follow the on-screen prompts to install the appropriate version of DVD Architect for your computer.

6.0 DVD Architect User Manual

Commercial distribution of the Sony Pictures Digital demos requires written permission from Sony Pictures Digital.

• 1-800-577-6642 (toll-free) in US, Canada, and Virgin Islands.
• +608-204-7703 for all other countries.
• Fax: 1-608-250-1745.

• For a detailed list of Technical Support options, we encourage you to visit http://mediasoftware.sonypictures.com/support/default.asp.
• To listen to your support options please call 608-256-5555.
• Fax: 608-250-1745.

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