MF 6 Plus Does not support HD slideshows with subtitles and

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msv6001
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MF 6 Plus Does not support HD slideshows with subtitles and

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MF 6 Plus HD Power Pack Does not support HD slideshows with subtitles and 2-level menus.
I have spent the whole night trying to resolve very simple task: making Full HD slideshow from photos with simple menus, pan and zoom and simple annotations (shooting date and time, place). I used to make such slideshows for DVD with ULEAD CD & DVD Picture show 4 for 3 years with no problems, and now I want to make full HD slideshows to play on BD player and TVIX HD6500.
Summary of results:
Firstly I have purchased MF 6 PLUS.
It creates subtitles and menu for HD DVD, but:
1) You have no ability to automatically insert date and time from image (this fields are shadowed), but you can automatically insert file name, which can be generated in date and time form by another programs, such as ACDSee.
2) You can add annotations to any photo, but one by one, there is no instrument to apply them to group of photos, so for some hundreds of photos it is not easy task. In ULEAD CD & DVD Picture show you can add same text to any number of slaids with one step.
3) Annotations are added not as subtitle, they are added to resulting mpeg file
4) You can not export resulting subtitle, it is mixed to VOB file in DVD or to EVO file in HD DVD (but I have no HD DVD player (only BD), and my TVIX does not support .IFO and .EVO for HD DVD) .
5) I can not make chapter menus (I have tried anyting: making chapters in slideshows, changing slideshows to mpeg files, produced from them). All the times knob ¡§create chapter menu¡¨ in the advance setting was shadowed.
Then I have purchased HD Power Pack. Results of my researching:
1) All new added formats (Blu-ray, AVC HD and ¡§HD DVD on standard DVD¡¨) does not supports subtitles (knob ¡§edit subtitle¡¨ is shadowed).
In conclusion.
I understand, that it may be not so easy for developers to release working with subtitles in new HD formats, but why not to repeat features, that was released in ULEAD CD & DVD Picture show:
1) Automatically embed date and time from photos in movie file, not in subtitle.
2) Add annotations to group of photos.
3) Create 2 or more levels menu.
Also, if You know how to make Full HD (BD or AVCHD or HD on DVD) slideshow from photos with simple menus, pan and zoom and simple annotations (shooting date and time, place), please tell me.
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