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Encore Alternative?
Hello,
I was wondering if anyone has had any experience with an alternative to Encore? I am looking to switch to something more recent and something that supports Windows 10. I have looked and looked and all I really have found is Vegas DVD Architect. Has anyone had any experience with this? My main goals are to be able to do menus with motion and audio. I also need to be able to burn DVD and Blu Ray. Any input is very much welcome.
Thank you,
Nick
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I was literally just reading an old forum thread from a few years ago on Adobe’s site about this exact issue. I’ve was using DVDstudio for a long time but switched over to Encore last year when clients started asking for Blu-rays. Unfortunately Encore doesn’t support scripting, which I sometimes need, and it’s still buggy, with no support anymore.
In the thread someone suggested Sony’s midlevel authoring program DoStudio. Unfortunately I just looked and Sony dropped support and sales on March 1. So I’m not sure what our options are anymore between the simple consumer level authoring programs, and the ridiculously expensive Sony Bluprint (from what I hear, price isn’t published).
I do see that Sony is still distributing Vegas DVD Architect, though it seems they sold it to a subsidiary. In any case, I don’t know much about it. Hopefully someone else can chime in.
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I was literally just reading an old forum thread from a few years ago on Adobe’s site about this exact issue. I’ve was using DVDstudio for a long time but switched over to Encore last year when clients started asking for Blu-rays. Unfortunately Encore doesn’t support scripting, which I sometimes need, and it’s still buggy, with no support anymore.
In the thread someone suggested Sony’s midlevel authoring program DoStudio. Unfortunately I just looked and Sony dropped support and sales on March 1. I do see that Sony is still distributing Vegas DVD, though it seems they sold it to another company. Then there’s Sony Bluprint but from what I understand it’s geared towards hollywood users and comes with a price tag to match. I have no experience with any of Sony’s options.
Someone on another forum suggested a European company that has a couple different offering for BDs at different price levels. It’s not a pretty UI, but from what I can tell it might give us all the functionality we need. Depending on the level of software, it’s from 800-3000 Euros. They also offer a BD UHD authoring tool if you’re ready to jump into that realm. https://www.dvd-logic.com
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I’ll check into that, thank you for the information! I downloaded a free trial of The Sony Vegas authoring software, it does allow for BD production. I haven’t used it yet though but I plan to burn my first trial disc tonight. I will look at the Dvd-logic software also. I need something but also I don’t want to spend an arm and a leg for it. If only everyone wanted digital media, life would be way easier, haha.
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The quality of the export is as good as Encore but the UI is pretty nasty compared to Encore.
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Hello.
My problem with Vegas has to do with subtitles.
I cannot have it importing correctly subtitles in Italic.
The software simply ignores how it is formated.Did you stick with it?
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Still using our old copy of encore. It still does what I need it do, and I’ve figured out a workaround for what I had the scripts doing in DVD studio. Though the solution in Encore isn’t as elegant. But I’ve saved the project as a template so that saves me time. My issue is still that Encore can be a bit buggy. On the last blu-ray, I had to recreate the entire project from scratch since a bug caused it to fail on build every time — seems other people have the same issues on the forums.
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