I am a professional videographer. To date, I have two authoring tools and my primary tool has been Pegasys TMPGEnc Authoring 5. My want is to move to MoviePlus as my primary tool. So I decided to try it out for the wedding I shot this past Fri night.
When I shoot weddings, I get many little files to put together - for a full wedding it is generally 150 to 225 files.
I have two 'nits' for the actual composition and editing process.
1. I want the scenes to move smoothly without transitions. I have noticed that sometimes, if they are adjacent with two matching arrows, it is smooth; other times it is jerky and I have to move the clip slightly left until the arrows disappear.
2. I sure wish there was an option which left the playback cursor at the end of the clip instead of it going back to where I started.
The biggest issue I am having that is stopping me from migrating to this product is the menu builder.
1. It seems to be a separate subsystem/product and not integrated into movieplus.
2. Some of the items are in options menus and not the main User Interface (UI). For example, I need to insert my own pictures as backgrounds on each menu.
3. There is no connection between the menu builder and movieplus in terms of data exchange. So it will not take the names of my chapter points and move them into the menu as menu selections. So I have to retype each menu item.
4. There is now introductory wizard that allows me to provide the overall design for the menus - in my case, I would like to specify, no thumbnails and 8 items per page. I would also like to specify here the font information for my title and the font information for each menu item.
5. The setting in one menu don't seem to propagate into the others even when I say 'apply to all' - so I have to redo my fonts setting for titles and chapters on each page.
6. I would like to be able to drag over a series of chapters and do various alignments (top, center, botton, left, right). Or even have it distribute the spacing equally among the various chapters.
7. I did not see a way to specify a highlighted color for when the remote moves to the menu item (for example I use yellow menu items and a green highlighted color).
8. My biggest issue (which is currently a show stopper though I may have missed a way to do this), are the links for the remote - I need the flexibility to manually design for each menu item, it's behavior for all four remote button directions.
These are all things I am used to and can do very easily in TMPGenc Authoring.
Joel
When I shoot weddings, I get many little files to put together - for a full wedding it is generally 150 to 225 files.
I have two 'nits' for the actual composition and editing process.
1. I want the scenes to move smoothly without transitions. I have noticed that sometimes, if they are adjacent with two matching arrows, it is smooth; other times it is jerky and I have to move the clip slightly left until the arrows disappear.
2. I sure wish there was an option which left the playback cursor at the end of the clip instead of it going back to where I started.
The biggest issue I am having that is stopping me from migrating to this product is the menu builder.
1. It seems to be a separate subsystem/product and not integrated into movieplus.
2. Some of the items are in options menus and not the main User Interface (UI). For example, I need to insert my own pictures as backgrounds on each menu.
3. There is no connection between the menu builder and movieplus in terms of data exchange. So it will not take the names of my chapter points and move them into the menu as menu selections. So I have to retype each menu item.
4. There is now introductory wizard that allows me to provide the overall design for the menus - in my case, I would like to specify, no thumbnails and 8 items per page. I would also like to specify here the font information for my title and the font information for each menu item.
5. The setting in one menu don't seem to propagate into the others even when I say 'apply to all' - so I have to redo my fonts setting for titles and chapters on each page.
6. I would like to be able to drag over a series of chapters and do various alignments (top, center, botton, left, right). Or even have it distribute the spacing equally among the various chapters.
7. I did not see a way to specify a highlighted color for when the remote moves to the menu item (for example I use yellow menu items and a green highlighted color).
8. My biggest issue (which is currently a show stopper though I may have missed a way to do this), are the links for the remote - I need the flexibility to manually design for each menu item, it's behavior for all four remote button directions.
These are all things I am used to and can do very easily in TMPGenc Authoring.
Joel