Alternative to DVD Studio Pro?

[Bobby Mosca]

I think Encore is bundled with Adobe’s production suite, so I’m not quite ready to completely jump ship and invest that much.

[John Pale]

Just keep using DVDSP. It hasn’t changed much since Studio 2… nor has anything in the DVD spec.
Clone your drive, as has been suggested, as insurance.

You can still do you encoding in Compressor 4, and author in DVDSP.

[Adam Ashby]

Encore comes with Premier Pro. You cant buy Encore as single app. Its big pluses are its integration PPro, After Effects, and Photoshop. DVDSP is slicker and easier to use, but Encore is still pretty cool, plus it authors BlueRay.

[Eric Pautsch]

Encore doesn’t come anywhere close to DVDSP in functionlity. The only option is keep using DVDSP or head over to PC and buy DVD Lab or Scenarist.

[Chris Conlee]

Adobe Encore works well. Just did a Blu-Ray with several menus and whatnot. I’m getting the hang of it; very similar to DVDSP, actually.

Chris

[Anthony Mouchonnet]

I am used Encore for BRD but DVDSP for DVDs. I had several problems in Encore when I was making a DVD from a BRD based authoring.

[Alexander Kallas]

[Bret Williams] “It’s just the installer you’re going to have a problem with. I would just clone your snow leopard drive so you can always copy over any apps like DVDSP if your Lion system gets corrupted.
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…..except copying DVDSP from your cloned drive onto your new boot disk won’t work, you need an installer.

Cheers
Alexander

[Bobby Mosca]

Okay, so here’s what I’m hearing:

I can keep using DVDSP on Lion if it’s already installed when I eventually upgrade the OS… probably. This has the ring of uncertainty and of course, it’s temporary.

I can spend the money for Premeire to get Encore, which feels like buying a car for the sweet rims.

So if we’re saying, in the long run, I’m basically stuck using iDVD, I might jump off something.

[Chris Kenny]

[Bobby Mosca] “So if we’re saying, in the long run, I’m basically stuck using iDVD, I might jump off something.”

Heh, iDVD is also semi-retired. It’s still included with iLife ’11, but it didn’t get an update, it’s not sold in the App Store, and there probably won’t be a new version.

Apple didn’t kill DVDSP because Apple doesn’t care about pros… they killed DVDSP because they don’t care about discs. The same logic applies to the consumer product.

I’d say there’s an 80% chance the next round of MacBook Pros (which are, remember, Apple’s best-selling model line these days) won’t even have built-in optical drives.

I understand why Apple is killing DVDSP, but it’s kind of annoying. Encore is quirky as hell, in my experience, and is the closest thing to a reasonable alternative on the platform.

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[John Pale]

[Bobby Mosca] “Okay, so here’s what I’m hearing:

I can keep using DVDSP on Lion if it’s already installed when I eventually upgrade the OS… probably. This has the ring of uncertainty and of course, it’s temporary.”

Clone your boot drive now with DVDSP on it. Even if Lion or some future OS won’t work with DVDSP, all you have to do is boot off that drive and you can make your DVD.

Otherwise…you have to start looking at Bootcamp and PC alternatives, if you don’t want to use Encore.