Here are some key features of "Sony DVD Architect Pro":

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. It''s 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, director''s 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:

· 1 GHz processor
· 250 MB hard-disk space for program installation
· 1 GB RAM
· OHCI-compatible i.LINK connector/IEEE-1394DV card (for external-monitor preview)
· Windows-compatible sound card
· Supported DVD-R/-RW/+R/+RW or BD-R/-RE drive
· Microsoft DirectX 9.0c or later
· Microsoft .NET Framework 3.0 (included on application disc)
· Apple QuickTime 7.1.6 or later


What''s New in This Release:

· Burning to Blu-ray Disc
· Full-screen previewing to secondary Windows display
· Support for opening MPEG-2 and AVCHD video files
· Support for using AC3 and PCM audio with HD video
· Support for creating .iso files and burning to DVD or Blu-ray Disc