Adobe Encore joins Apple DVD Studio Pro

[Lance Bachelder]

The DVD spec has never changed/evolved like Blu-ray has so any authoring app that will run on your OS is fine as long as standard DVD’s exist. What updates would Adobe make to Encore for regular DVD’s?

Now I was always hoping that Adobe would update the Blu-ray side of things for fully 2.0 compliant mastering including animated menu’s and BD Live etc. But it looks like that’s not happening and will remain in the realm of the big bucks/industry standard authoring app’s like Bluprint:

https://www.sonycreativesoftware.com/bluprint

Lance Bachelder
Writer, Editor, Director
Downtown Long Beach, California
https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1680680/?ref_=fn_al_nm_1

[Craig Seeman]

[Julian Bowman] ” This brave new hi-tech cloud based future fails to take into account a lot of people have crap broadband.”

Screeners are still easy to. It’s still easy to burn an H.264 .mp4 onto a disc, The need for authored discs it what’s in decline. It’s very easy to burn a file onto a disc and send it in the mail. That doesn’t require an authored disc. And if you really need an authored disc you can use what’s currently available like Encore CS6. There’s no econcomic reason for developers to invest R&D and QA to update the program though. They’ve taken it as far as economics merit.

[Julian Bowman] “DVD works fine. CD sales still exist. Vinyl still sells. DVD isn’t going anywhere soon”

But it’s not advancing so developers have no economic incentive to advance the software. They exist. Sales are declining. They’re not going to develop until sales near zero. They stop develop when it’s no longer profitable to invest in development relative the sales of the software.

[Julian Bowman] “Not sure why a quick remake can’t be done to simply make it run on the latest OS.”

You can freeze a computer at a working OS.

[Darren Roark]

I myself really dislike overly involved DVD and BD menus. I really just want to watch the film. If I want the extras, I can deal with a simple boring menu. It’s the same as when I see a big loud flash website open up.

It was novel when making the switch from VHS tapes but now it’s just another reason for the skip and mute buttons.