Hi,
A couple of features that I would like to see/request (assuming I did not screw up and these features do not exist already
) - no doubt some or all of these have been requested before but search did not help (or I gave up too easily). :
1. Video encoding (e.g. MPEG, AVC, etc. - not an issue for DVD; just HD formats).
2. Also of interest but of less urgency is bit rate (max, avg, cbr, vbr, that kind of thing).
3. Anamorphic option for HD encodes (it is strange that it is not available since some HD discs are encoded anamorphic).
4. Ratings organization - like MPAA etc.
On the reports side:
1. Landscape page mode (e.g. business card size reports waste too much paper in portrait mode)
2. Element orientation (at a minimum 90 degree rotation for things like color coded tabs - e.g. genre tabs at edge of report) - I think there is a strong 'fair use' argument to support this feature in spite of copyright concerns.
3. Conditional image element (like a switch statement - e.g. if subtitle1==English then use English flag; that kind of thing).
4. Index entry for conditions like genre, subtitle, studio, etc.; (like e.g. audio condition, which has track index entry) - of course we do not have a studio condition at this time and, copyright issues aside, that would be a cool report feature. This supplements the existing 'contains' conditionals. This is particularly important for the Genre element. Genre color coding is awkward at best without it.
5. Support for transparent pixels in png or gif images (I could be wrong but they seem to default to white background in the reports I've tried).
6. Feature element with icon option (so it prints icons like the ones available in the standard layout view). Using a condition on features to accomplish this is quite awkward (not to mention I am too lazy to come up with cool icons for the features
)
7. Textual RGB color editing and information in the color picker. Information is available when hovering over a color in one of the tabs but missing for custom colors.
8. Iconic ratings element and condition. I would like to print custom icons for different ratings/rating orgs. Used to simulate this with region encoding for DVD (not perfect) but it is awkward and will not work well with blu-ray or hd-dvd.
9. Row ordering. To support printing double sided reports (like business card or trading card reports) the ability to select left to right vs. right to left ordering is essential; e.g.
front back
1 4 4 1
2 5 5 2
3 6 6 3
10. Multiple conditions or even decision trees (logical combinations of conditions).
I am sure there are some tricks to simulate some of them but they are awkward (or they escape me completely).
Wasn't there a features website with voting capability? If I remember correctly it was wiki or wiki-like. Please point the way.
Cheers.