You’ll have to wait for Larry to chime in on that. I believe There are ways to reprogram the abstraction layer. Blu Streak was originally intended to produce a CMF image for replication…another thing Encore will not do. Ive been using Scenarist for years so I cant say for sure. There’s really nothing on the Mac. Have you look at DVDLogic’s suite of tools?
What’s your budget? I’d go with Cinevision if you can afford it. Netblenders site has list of compliant encoders….I’d start there. Be careful with DoStudio these days…..Sony bought them up
Not for encoding but for the extraction. Never had issued with Streamclip myself. It’s the most used ans supported tool for this kind of work….. on the Mac anyway