Be careful about the points below when updating the program.
About the operations in the new version, please refer to the User's Guide.

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Attention on 2.70.02.00
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 1. User's Guide update
    Important Modification : Frame rate setting on Adobe Premiere (plug-in)
    When you convert 24 fps source file into NTSC video, you should set 
    frame rate as 23.98(24) fps on Adobe Premiere.
 2. QuickTime movie play on Video trimming window (standalone)
    Backward playback and changing playback speed functionalities are also 
    provided. 
 3. Enabled to specify a template in plug-in version (plug-in)

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Attention on 2.70.01.00
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 1. Automatic resolution conversion in DVD/SVCD/VCD mode
    When DVD/SVCD/VCD is selected in encoding mode, frame rate and frame size
    are automatically converted to fit to the target standard. If you do not
    want to change them, please choose MPEG-1 or MPEG-2 mode.
 2. Addition of DVD mode
    "DVD Video compliant" option in 2.67 was removedCand DVD mode was added
    to encoding modes. If you use "DVD Video compliant" option in 2.67 templates
    or ecl files, some parameters are automatically changed in 2.69. Please read
    readme.txt carefully in advance.
 3. Addition of 1st pass of VBR mode
    It is provided to create a video information file for multipass VBR. This
    mode allows you to specify minimum and average and maximum bitrates.
 4. Change of the name of "Bias"
    It was newly named "V/C". (VBR/CBR: setting for fluctuation of the bit allocation)
    And it became available outside the VBR bit allocation window.
 5. Number of encoding passes
    You can specify up to 99.
 6. Chapter list
    Chapter list window was added, and you can save/load a chapter list
    to/from file on the window. (You can also set a chapter on File setting window.
    However, you cannot save/load a chapter list to/from file on File setting window.)
 7. Addition of "Encode the last frame as an I frame" option
 8. Adaptive quantization matrices switching for multipass VBR
    Quantization matrices are adjusted automatically when multipass VBR.
    (You can disable the operation.)
 9. Field order
    An option of outputting buttom field first stream was provided.
10. Offset line
    "Upper field first" option of 2.66 is equal to the combination of 2.70 settings
    "Output top field first stream" and "Offset line" 1.
11. Addition of blanking functionality
12. Addition of 3:2 pulldown functionality
13. Addition of functionalities on inverse 3:2 pulldown setting
    "Auto 2-pass detection" and "Threshould setting" are added.
    The currently referred field is combined to the previous and next fields
    and the combination pictures are displayed on the two viewer windows.
14. Change of Dithered quantization
    Y and C parameters should be set for dithered quantization.
15. Addition of functionalities on Quality setting
    "High boost filter", "Auto block scan oeder"C"Fades on a static scene",
    "Black screen" and "Monochrome"
16. Action when finished encoding
    You can set "Shut down the system" or "Play sound" as action when finished.
17. Log output
    Log output setting has added in the "Outputs" of "Options" menu.
18. Save/load template to/from file
19. Reuse of the last modified parameter setting