Alternative to Encore CS6

I have tested TMPGEnc Authoring Works 6 and think it is great but i still use Encore. The biggest downside with TMPGEnc Authoring Works 6 that stopped me from buying it was/is the very limited menu options. For every Blu-ray i create i want custom made motion menues, custom button highlights and to make that work in TMPGEnc Authoring Works 6 is hard, near to impossible and seems to be the very issue that people complain about.

The software itself is great with an easy to use interface.

I second that the TMPGEnc Movie Plug-in AVC for Premiere Pro is superiour compared to the Pr/AME encoder. I use it for all my Blu-rays and H.264 encoding and have stopped using the x264 PRO encoder due to error messages that never got any attention.

https://forums.adobe.com/people/Michael+Stehly  wrote I have downloaded the trial version of TMPGEnc Authoring Works 6.  This is a new version(9/27/2017).  It is good for 30 days.  I have a 1:21:26 video.  I edited the video in Adobe Premiere Pro CC 2017.  I created an MPEG2-DVD video.  In Encore I made an iso file.  I used ImgBurn to create the DVD.  It took 12 minutes.  I used the same video in TMPGEnc.  However, I used the MPGE2-DVD video.  It took 10 minutes to make the DVD.  I could not see any difference in the quality.  I have not used all of the features yet.

TMPGenc make some really good software - their Premiere Pro CC 264 encoder for Blu-ray produces a far better quality output than the AME version does - this appears as a plugin for AME or Premiere Pro directly. Highly recommended.

I do not own the Authoring Works tool (we use Scenarist SD/BD and DVD-Lab Pro) but I do have the Video Mastering Works tool and it is very useful indeed. I still remember buying their MPEG-2 encoder way back when we had EncoreDVD version 1.0 as it gave the best output I had then seen (with the correct tweaks, as using presets will never, ever get you the best quality encoding & TMPG allowed a lot more "under the hood" tweaks than the built-in Main Concept engine in Encore/AME ever did. The downside was that it was even easier to make an absolute mess of the whole thing of course.

But basically you will not go too far wrong with TMPG. They make quality, affordable tools

You said "however" regarding using the mpeg2-dvd for the TMPGEnc version. I assume it was the same file exported from PR - mpg or m2v/wav? And that the difference was that you burned from  the TMPGEnc version rather than creating an image and burning

$100 after trial ($99.95), right?

Thanks for posting the info.