'Q' DVD-Author

'Q' DVD-Author's goal is to provide a complete DVDAuthoring solution for Linux with the emphasis of ease of use and a complete set of functionality.

Features:

• You can generate the main menu.
• You can generate Sub Menus
• You can generate Buttons
• You can scale, color, stretch, twist and shout each object
• You can give each menu multiple sound tracks (not yet perfect though).
• You can import your own layers for Highlighted and for Selected Mask and combine it with the created objects
• You can generate a dvd-slideshow
• You can create a full blown DVD without knowing the command line tools
• You can modify every generated command before executing and generating the DVD
• You can generate MovieMenus
• You can generate MovieButtons
• You can modify the generated xml files within the GUI
• You can contribute to qdvdauthor.

What is new in this release:

• This version fixes a compilation issue with ffmpeg and a UITN64 compilation issue.

What is new in version 2.1.0:

• BUGFIX: Slideshow creation, Fixed auditranscoding for slideshow vids if the audiformat is SAMPLE_FMT_U8.
• BUGFIX: configure script, had issues using the -j switch ( instead of the --cores )
• BUGFIX: Slideshow ialog, Some audifiles caused the [Edit] dialog not treturn tthe calling function.
• BUGFIX: suppress "Not JPEG: /tmp/01.png" message.
• BUGFIX: Slideshow creation, properly init audio-output-sample_fmt.
• BUGFIX: Clone ButtonObjects would not clone the modifiers.
• BUGFIX: Configurator, Fixed the graphical configurator tool.
• BUGFIX: Crashing bug for ButtonObjects with shadows and overlay objects.
• BUGFIX: Fixed StructureItem when creating a ButtonObect.
• BUGFIX: Crashing bug when changing colors on MaskObjects after using the button-dialog.
• BUGFIX: Fixed rendering of MaskObjects on Images with OverlayObjects.
• Added possibility tmodify multiple objects in the TemplateWizard ( required for the ReflectionPond template )
• BUGFIX: Crashing bug when using MovieObjects.
• Added context menu items ta ButtonObject whose main object contains a ShadowObject or an OverlayObject.
• BUGFIX: HDRCreme does nlonger work.

What is new in version 2.0.0:

• This release finishes Undo/Redo functionality and the UndoStackDialog.
• It adds a 16:9 ratio for slideshows.
• It fixes a total of 40 bugs, including multiple crashes and some less severe bugs.

What is new in version 1.11.0:

• Added simple Drag'n Drop support for videos tthe SourceToolbar from anywhere.
• Added manual transitions input tthe ButtonTransitions.
• Added icons tthe structure elements
• Combine Structure Toolbar and Sources toolbar intone.
• Added capability tstore temp images of a render animated menu as jpegs instead of a pngs
• Added transition between menus and SubMenus
• Added transition between menus and VMGMenu
• Added transition between menus and Videos.
• Implement logic for CommandQueueDialog
• DialogButton: improved Transition display. Indicate Transition with red font.
• ButtonObject -> createStructure
• DialogMovie: Add Transition button for all buttons in a DVD Menu.
• Handle [Okay], [Calcel], and [NTransition]
• DialogButtonTrans:
• If coming from menu, change title tRandom transition
• Add Button [Select All] and [Clear All]
• If coming from menu, make dialog multi selection
• Add handling of multiple buttons from multiple menus ta videsource
• Add handling of transitions tchapters of a video.
• Improve generation of start image for SourceFileInfo.
• QRender: Improve verbosity when creating Transitions at -v 5
• Added masks library tbuild system.
• BUGFIX ButtonTransition: Fixed PAL size mismatch between target and generated transition.
• BUGFIX: Fixed crashing bug when opening DialogMovie for MovieObjects.
• BUGFIX: Fixed indentation in xml file if we add comments tit.
• BUGFIX: Crashes at loading, if we have twbuttons tthe Main Menu from a SubMenu. ( DVDLayoutArea )
• BUGFIX: Fixed memory leak with Intor / Extrmovies.

What is new in version 1.10.0:

• Added ButtonTransitions
• Added transition between menus and SubMenus
• Added transition between menus and VMGMenu
• Added transition between menus and Videos.
• Added simple Drag'n Drop support for videos to the SourceToolbar from anywhere.
• Added icons to the structure elements
• Combine Structure Toolbar and Sources toolbar into one.
• Added capability to store temp images of a render animated menu as jpegs instead of a pngs

What is new in version 1.9.0:

• Added Slideshow default parameters tDialogSetup.
• Added Zcech translation thanks tPavel F.
• Added luma directory talpha_trans.tar.bz2
• Improved Subtitles thandle / / / / /
• Added autdetection of multiple audi/ subtitle steams for videsources
• Added RegionDialog tselect DVD region code.
• Added re-render tcontext menu for slideshows
• DVDLayout: Implement context menu for DVDLayout objects.
• DVDLayout: Add cursor keys handling, tmove containers.
• BIGFIX: Fixed DVD size calculations tbe a better prediction.
• BUGFIX: DVDMenu Menu item does not show up translated. Need tre-create the DVDMenu thave propper language.
• BUGFIX: Language setting is not restored when re-starting QDVDAuthor.
• BUGFIX: After slideshow is rendered update the image in DVDLayout.
• BUGFIX: Initial thumb size in DVDLayout is sometimes messed up, only showing the header.
• BUGFIX: QRender stops with more than 3 slideshows trender. Why ?
• BUGFIX: If the videlength is adjusted it does not change the length in the AllSources tab.
• DVDLayout does add more then 5 videos in one row instead of organizing it in multiple rows

What is new in version 1.7.0:

• Fixed issues with "Stretch / Stop / Loop" of MovieObjects.
• Fixed issue with videos > 1000 seconds.
• Fixed issue with SimpleDVD, and ComplexDVD plugins. The system path was set tthe wrong path under certain circumstances.
• Fixed issue with SubtitlesGui. Ubuntu would expand the main window tmax.
• Added display of slideshow length, and audilength tthe Slideshow dialog.
• Add capability topen ChapterDialog with multiple SourceFileInfos.
• Added Alpha transitions tDialogSlideshow
• Added Alpha transition tQRender
• Added Alpha transition tCXmlSlideshow
• Added Alpha transition files t$SYSTEM/slideshow/transitions/alpha/
• Display warning in Dialog, if filters are missing on system.
• Dialog: Display filter preview if avail.
• Add ListCtrl with checks tenable which transitions tbe used (default all, random)
• Added installation option for the alpha transition masks tconfigure.

What is new in version 1.6.1:

• Added --system-path to confiure script
• Added Sytem Path to configurator.
• BUGFIX: QRender. Newer version of ffmpeg changed which caused QRender to core-dump.
• BUGFIX: remove ffmpeg link in the qrender directory.

What is new in version 1.6.0:

• Simplified build process through command line, and GUI.
• Added Audio Support for Slideshows
• Added Support for short VIDs to Slideshows
• Added Previewer to DialogFiles, so that you can now preview videos from within the Dialog instead of opening an external player.
• Added ffmpeg to all possible creation steps o Improved SubtitlesGui.
• Many bugfixes.