Look here for alternatives to encore: https://community.adobe.com/t5/premiere-pro/burning-dvd-without-encore/td-p/10523358
Encore has two problems:
- Encore was a third party program licensed to Adobe. The rights owner got acquired and discontinued the product and pulled the license plug. So Adobe was not able to continue to offer it with their products.
- Adobe pulled the plug on older subscription products. Currently you will be able to download only the 2 latest major versions of the software. As this makes sense, it is problematic with older discontinued software like Encore bundled to Premiere (CS6).
If you have a perpetual license of CS6, you can still ask Adobe Customer support for a private download link. If you have only a subscription license you need to acquire a different product for creating DVDs.
And it makes great sense to offer video editing software without an authoring software like Encore as a lot of the people do not need DVDs anymore. Currently all my projects are delivered on an USB stick or for download.
But I agree, it's frustrating if you come to the web site just to discover that the preferred software is no more available.