DVD / Blu-ray creation

the poster has a good option to create bd without encore.

if she figures out dvd interlace and progressive stuff she'll probably be able to provide simple disks to clients, grandparents, etc.

the larger issue, becoming slaves to tech marketing, is complex.

when blockbuster died a lot of urban areas got into cable and internet.

laptops became more thin and lighter with smaller screens ( no bd drive anymore)

graphic cards became just the chip ( not the card anymore cause it's huge ).

Lot's of changes.

I hate to say this but professional film makers don't do NOTHIN but make money on a product, no matter HOW YOU VIEW IT and no matter what sponsors pay for the air time, cable time, streaming time, etc.... it's a simple STORY paid for to get it marketed... watched, sold, talked about, etc.

It aint some social communistic FREE dream... the product is real.

Just because you don't have a bd drive on your laptop ( like me now with newest one ) it doesn't mean you can't get something and connect it to that thing via usb or whatever....

I agree that killing things like discs is really stupid but there are ways to work around problems and make what you want.

good luck

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Would I love a replacement for Encore?

You bet I would!

Would I use it? Well, at least maybe once a year ... and unfortunately, I'm on the high side of users planning on making an optical disk.

Here's another way of telling how little optical disk use there is now: a very small percentage of computers even have an optical disk reader. My new monster editing rig from Puget Systems has 24 cores, 128Gb of RAM, a 2080Ti, about ten SSDs internal (a couple of them Nvme) ... and no optical drive whatever.

My hot Acer Triton laptop, which also handles PrPro beautifully (it better for what it cost ... ) ... has no optical drive. Most laptops these days don't. If the users needed them, the makers would put them in. They're not there ...

Wedding photographers are mentioned in this thread. For over 30+ years, I was a stills portrait photog. With my missus ... that was our living. We did I don't know how many weddings. I added video to the last few we did before dropping weddings from our services. Did the clients want the video on a disc? No ... they wanted a file on a flash drive. This was six or seven years back now. Long enough that one where I did a fair amount of video is already long divorced. Too bad ... there was some good stuff there!

We still know a number of pro photogs who shoot weddings ... do they deliver on disk? Not normally ... most weddings, no. If someone wants it they can, but ... it ain't their normal process. I just asked on a couple weeks back about his business, which is more video than stills these days ... and on optical disks, he doesn't even have anything to read them let alone burn 'em. If someone needed one, he thought a lab he works with could make it. He thought.

And he does a fair amount of drone work ... all kinds. As part of wedding services, or as commercial/real estate, whatever. Has he ever delivered an opticial disk there? Nope. Never been asked for one.

Andy keeps saying "Adobe doesn't care" because they don't fix what ails him ... which is sad, because what both Andy & I would like is something that less than 1 or 2% of the client base would even be interested in. So they're doing what is fine with the vast majority of their userbase. It isn't that Adobe doesn't care ... it's that the vast majority of their client base doesn't care to have it.

And I say that even though I'm one that would love to have an Encore replacement in the CC options.

I'm also enough of a realist to know when something is simply not going to happen, and why.

Neil

I have  also used Cyberlink Power2 Go 13.  It will reincode H.264 videos from Adobe Premiere to create Blu-ray discs.  Even after reincoding the video quality is very good.  I also have used Power2 Go to make an AVCHD DVD disc.  I use HandBrake to reduce the file size.  I have been able to record up to 30 minutes on a DVD.  The quality is as good as Blu-ray.  However, the DVD can only be played on a Blu-ray player.

I use TMPGEnc Authoring Works 6 for creating Blu-ray discs.  If you export the video in Premiere as H.264 Blu-ray, Authoring Works will not reincode the video.  The audio and video from Premiere will be separated.  However, they can be multiplexed in Authoring Works.  I still create Blu-ray discs.  Much easier for people to use a Blu-ray player.

I have resolve 15 and to my knowledge it can't make discs. I can export for it but have use another program to do it, which is encore cs6. I export an iso from encore with one chapter ( to just play the stupid disc on other people's computers or tv disc players ). simple.

my laptop doesn't have a disc player cause they wanna make laptops thin like mint wafers.

like you find at the plaza on your pillow when you get back from carriage ride in central park with your cinematographer friend.

cause my laptop doesn't have even a simple bd I had to jump through hoops with adobe to get the cs6 installed via internet.

my advice is don't even bother with that old media anymore or else keep it super simple. 1 chapter...put in tv and it plays automatically. in tv. computers have better navigation and data diving ( some bd's are used as data backup instead of movie ).

keep it simple.

good luck.

we got nothin to do with adobe... we are just people who bought the stuff and want to help people edit stuff... I mean, really, this forum is about EDITING 

Also read https://community.adobe.com/t5/premiere-pro/adobe-killed-my-encore/td-p/11467349

If you have a physical disk of Premiere/Encore CS6 with serial number, you can install this and still make dvd/bd.

Good alternative for pc:

TMPGEnc Authoring Works 6 - The Ultimate DVD / Blu-ray / AVCHD Authoring Tool - Pegasys Inc.