neil wilkes
2K Club - QQ Super Nova
The only trouble with DAC is the expense - if you can find a copy for sale.
There is an, ahem, educational version to be found but the version is 3.0.5 whereas mine is 3.0.11 and 3.0.12 with a unified Command Edit/Author GUI and the old version has separate things for these, and documentation is very hard to find. It is well worth persevering - there is a lot that is far from obvious & simply cannot be deduced as it works by using 6 (or 7) separate applets instead of having it all "under one roof".
There are specific project folder structures that must be adhered to (or the compiler will not find the files) and very strict naming protocols for all graphical assets (same reason).
However - once done & learned it is incredibly flexible, ultra-stable - it works with XML files & never touches the actual assets so almost no resources used, but there is likewise no way at all to preview but when you do compile for testing you can do a minimal compile and truncate the actual audio down to as low as 10% which is ideal for faster compiles when all you want to do is test the navigation - allowing you to use an RW disc instead of wasting DL discs and best of all you get full access to the specs, allowing all sorts of fun to be had.
2nd hand copies can be found - they are out there - and I will probably be getting myself a second seat soon too.
If time permits later this year I will try & get my head around the educational build & see about a basic guide. For a "quick & dirty" disc, it is as fast as Chrome is to use. It's only when you start getting into the graphical possibilities it gets confusing. One of the things I really like about it is that as long as you remain in the 9 group limit you can import audio once but use it several times without duplicating it on the disc (Chrome cannot do this because it imports the audio streams directly into the groups) so you can have multiple playlists - say "original running order", "alternate running order", "ballads" or whatnot but only have each track written to the disc once - this is how discs that had both linked lyrics & slide modes were done.
Getting back OT, I will make the time to see if I can work out why Chrome has this bug - is it for the imported Video_TS, or in the main Lossless section as well?
There is an, ahem, educational version to be found but the version is 3.0.5 whereas mine is 3.0.11 and 3.0.12 with a unified Command Edit/Author GUI and the old version has separate things for these, and documentation is very hard to find. It is well worth persevering - there is a lot that is far from obvious & simply cannot be deduced as it works by using 6 (or 7) separate applets instead of having it all "under one roof".
There are specific project folder structures that must be adhered to (or the compiler will not find the files) and very strict naming protocols for all graphical assets (same reason).
However - once done & learned it is incredibly flexible, ultra-stable - it works with XML files & never touches the actual assets so almost no resources used, but there is likewise no way at all to preview but when you do compile for testing you can do a minimal compile and truncate the actual audio down to as low as 10% which is ideal for faster compiles when all you want to do is test the navigation - allowing you to use an RW disc instead of wasting DL discs and best of all you get full access to the specs, allowing all sorts of fun to be had.
2nd hand copies can be found - they are out there - and I will probably be getting myself a second seat soon too.
If time permits later this year I will try & get my head around the educational build & see about a basic guide. For a "quick & dirty" disc, it is as fast as Chrome is to use. It's only when you start getting into the graphical possibilities it gets confusing. One of the things I really like about it is that as long as you remain in the 9 group limit you can import audio once but use it several times without duplicating it on the disc (Chrome cannot do this because it imports the audio streams directly into the groups) so you can have multiple playlists - say "original running order", "alternate running order", "ballads" or whatnot but only have each track written to the disc once - this is how discs that had both linked lyrics & slide modes were done.
Getting back OT, I will make the time to see if I can work out why Chrome has this bug - is it for the imported Video_TS, or in the main Lossless section as well?