[Chuck Bengele]

I too am having problems with Encore CS3 having the ability to burn a viable DVD.

My computer is used for nothing but video production. I have an IBM Z Pro with twin P4 2.8 processors, 2 gigs of ram, Nvidea graphics card and SATA drives. This system runs both Premiere CS3 and an AVID Express Pro HD NLE software.

I have run the following versions of Encore 1, 1.5, 2.0 and now CS3.

I created a normal SD DVD with “all regions” useable. Encore reported the process complete with no error messages. The disc were Verbatium white printable. The burner is a Pioneer BDR-101A. The disc failed to play on any of the 4 different set top units I have.

I rebuilt the project from scratch and the new DVD still failed to play. I reduced the burn speed and playback failed. I made an ISO file and used it from within ECS3 and while the process showed no error creating the disc the disc still failed to play.

I then reinstalled Encore 2.0 and used the ECS3 ISO file to within Encore 2.0 and burned a DVD and it played fine on all 4 machines.

I have been using these same Verbatium white printable discs for better than a year with no failures or client problems. BTW, the burner is a Pioneer BDR-101A.

In the above process, I left ECS3 installed and used the same DVD burner and another DVD from the same stack of Verbatium blank discs.

I should also mention that I also have a NEC Blu-Ray burner installed on the this system and has been installed since October of this year. I waited for Adobe to come out with Encore and Blu-ray as I really enjoy working with Encore. However, I have not burned my first Blu-ray disc nor have I ever burned any disc on it to date. I do not know why for a few people Encore works and for other, it does not. Why does 2.0 work and CS3 not? ECS3 did not change much beyond adding Blu-ray and Flash, so what is going on?

May be the reason there is not a bigger crowd noise is because not that many people are buying the product. Blu-ray was the reason I stepped forward, however, not many clients are asking for HD DVDs.

I do look forward to any input or suggestions anyone might have to help me/us/Adobe move forward.

Regards,
Chuck