Very informative thread.
We don’t do blu rays where I work. But on a random day and for a trusted client and friend we decided to try out encore and our new bluray burner… lets just say we’ve encountered every problem in this thread.
Ultimately we abandoned the project and went back to tape out put. But it was hell. We are mainly an online / vfx house so authoring blurays and doing surround sound mixes is not our usual cup of tea.
Encore was hell.
Though I will give Final Cut Pro 7 props for its 1 click blu ray burn which actually was fairly painless… as long as you don’t want to customise a single thing and leave it as is.
I dragged the project home to my meager (at the moment) PC and checked out encore on the PC side and it seems to be a touch more stable than on the mac. I was at least able to get the blu-ray to play which was a big change from the endless errors on the mac.