Now available on DVD: your own captivating home movies, multimedia photo albums, and music compilations-complete with dazzling menus, special features, and custom soundtracks.

With DVD Architect Studio software you can swiftly create professional-looking DVDs and even stunning widescreen productions on your home PC.

Simply drag and drop to start building your next blockbuster.

Features of "Sony DVD Architect Studio":

· Professional-Looking DVDs Made Easy
Your own captivating home movies, multimedia photo albums, and music compilations-complete with dazzling menus, special features, and custom soundtracks. With DVD Architect Studio software you can swiftly create professional-looking DVDs, even stunning widescreen productions, on your home computer. Simply drag and drop to start building your next blockbuster.

· Choose a Theme
Select from 44 beautifully designed DVD backgrounds with coordinated menu buttons. You can also import your own images and graphics to create your own custom themes.

· Add your Media
Use the explorer window to select the movies, photos, and music you want to include. Easily author a multimedia project with a movie, slideshow, and music compilation all in one.

· Make Your DVD
Built-in DVD burning makes it easy to share your blockbuster. Produce DVDs in 4:3 fullscreen or 16:9 widescreen formats, NTSC or PAL.

· DVDs made easy
To start building your DVD, simply drag your photos or video clips into the project window. Use the same drag-and-drop motion to place buttons, text, backgrounds, and more to create a professional-looking DVD in minutes. Its the complete DVD experience, fast and easy!

· Professional results
Author DVDs of your movies, slideshows, and music compilations with professional polish. You can include a wide variety of media formats, including standard-definition and high-definition video. Add behind-the-scenes features, directors cuts, outtakes, bloopers, and more.

· Menus, buttons, and subtitles
Create menus for your movies so viewers can jump to their favorite scenes or chapters. Design your own menus and buttons. Freely position text, graphics, and buttons anywhere on the screen. Make titles and captions stand out with effects such blur and shadow.

· Perfect preview
With DVD Architect Studio software you control the DVD experience. Use the virtual remote control to simulate how your project will look on a television screen and how it will function in a DVD player.

· Fast DVD burning
Burning DVDs in DVD Architect Studio software is fast and easy. With built-in support for a wide variety of DVD media formats including DVD-R, DVD-RW, DVD+R, DVD+RW, and DVD+R DL, DVD, you can quickly create a DVD that suits your needs.

· Amazing Tutorials
Show Me How tutorials go beyond the booklets and basic tutorials that other solutions provide. These extraordinary helpers are built right into the software-just click Show Me How to access simple, interactive help on 25 topics. Show Me How tutorials help you spend less time learning and more time creating.


Requirements:

· 800 MHz processor
· 200 MB hard-disk space for program installation
· 256 MB RAM
· Windows-compatible sound card
· DVD-ROM drive
· Supported DVD-r/-rw/+r/+rw drive (for DVD burning)
· Microsoft DirectX 9.0c or later
· Internet Explorer 5.1 or later.
· You have to register the trial version in order to use it.


Limitations:

· Nag screen on exit.
· 30 days trial.

Changes from previous version

· Fixed a bug that prevented the language selection button from being displayed on audio track headers.
· Fixed a bug that caused long ToolTips to flicker.
· Fixed a bug when registering the MPEG plug-in during the installation of certain older versions of Sony Creative Software Inc. software.
· Fixed a focus problem when using the Show Me How tutorials.