Hi all - just a heads-up about the Rovi plugin demo.
I've been looking for the best solution for DCP creation - my local film club has an NEC projector attached to a DCP server, and they're looking for ways to convert all input to DCP. It'll play DVDs and Blu-rays as well as DCP, but I think they'd like to take advantage of the whole "total program" environment.
Anyway, I was exploring various options of DCP creation packages, and one option was the Rovi/MainConcept plugin for PPro.
I fired up my "demo/testing" project, and imported about 7 minutes of MPG from another job. I wasn't interested in high quality at this stage, i just wanted to see the end result, and provide a DCP on a hard drive to see if it would import to the film club's DCP server. So far, so good. The demo puts a watermark in the top rh corner and limits AAC / Dolby audio to 30 seconds. Fair enough, that's fine for testing purposes. The export went fine and I'll test the DCP import in a few days.
Only problem - the demo watermark appeared on ALL footage in the project - not just the footage in the sequence I was using. I tried an export NOT using the Rovi plugin, but the watermark was still there. I had to exit PPro, uninstall the plugin, and restart PPro. Fine, the plugin and its watermark were gone - but so were my renders of footage - lots of yellow and red lines above the timeline, so now I have to render those sequences again.
It seems to be a good product that does what it claims, but I'm not happy about it affecting footage in other sequences, and having to re-render said footage after removing the plugin. Lucky I only opened a test project, and not a real one.