Automatically shut down the PC and notification sound when finished

Topaz Video AI Ideas
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It would be great to have an option before starting to process a video that says:

When finished:

* Shut down
* Suspend
* Restart
* Close program

Many times I have left my PC on for several hours, and while I was away from home I had to tell a family member to check if VEAI had finished processing the video and then that family member would shut down my PC.
Another alternative is to schedule a shutdown in Windows with the task scheduler, but I never managed to get that simple scheduled task to work.
This is a bit annoying, there should be an option to choose to have the PC shut down (Or any of the other options) automatically after finishing processing a video.

PS: It also occurred to me that it would be nice to have a notification sound when the video finishes processing, so that the icon in the taskbar flashes orange like any other program in Windows. This would be very useful as I often let VEAI process a video in the background while I do other things with the computer and I don’t realise when it is finished or not.

2

I’d like this too as leave renders overnight. StaxRip has this feature and works well.

3

It’s not something super complicated to program, it requires a simple line of code, in C++ it would be something like this for a shutdown:

system("C:\\Windows\\System32\\shutdown /s /t 0");

If the development team reads this, they should consider taking 5 minutes to make such a feature in the program. I’m not a professional programmer, I am a student and I know the basics, but I know that doing something like this, that a program shuts down after doing a certain action.

It is something super simple that would considerably improve the “user’s quality of life”. Which is very important and I see that many software developers don’t take into account the user’s quality of life. Which is a big mistake, because if your software is tedious, or has features that people would like to have, they will stop using it.

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