Disc authoring

https://forums.adobe.com/people/John+T+Smith  wrote https://www.videohelp.com/software/sections/authoring-bd-hd-dvd

John, that list is so far out of date it's just not even funny.

Suitable replacement will depend 100% on the intended results. If this is for sale, then it must be replicated (pressed from Glass Master) or else you cannot legally sell it as a Blu-ray disc as BD-R is under the BD-ROM spec books and written discs are considered as non compliant media and therefore cannot carry or be described as "Blu-ray Disc" and anybody who actually sells BD-R as Blu-ray is asking to have Sony hit them with a Cease & Desist order followed by a stock destruction order if labelling & packaging cannot be changed.

This kinda limits what you can do, so please be careful.

DoStudio no longer exists. Sony bought NetBlender out, and then closed it down at the same time they closed down Sony Creative Software.

Blu-Disc Studio is personal use only - not for retail use at all as it is hopelessly inadequate

Everything else on that list - with the sole exception of Blu-Print - is not good enough for commercial use simply because commercial pressings require the use of Mandatory AACS so-called "Copy Protection" and there are 2 ways to handle this - either your client needs an AACS license as a content owner or you need one as an authoring house. We use the former option - licensing myself for AACS is just too damned expensive and I would get no change out of £15,000 - spec books have to be bought as part of it at £5k each & there are three of them. Add to this the actual licensing costs themselves and for me it just was not worth the money. If I were Disney then yes.

Encore on Mac was able to do AACS by virtue of an add-on tool that takes the Encore output & format it for the Replication Master (I don't recall the developer offhand but I am assured by those who know this method works perfectly but the addon is Mac only - kinda ironic given there are no authoring tools for Mac OS.

Another option is Scenarist BD - they do a licensing deal too, and are still developing Scenarist BD and Scenarist SD, with Seamless Branching being added recently.

Also - this is really important - the only way you will get this done on Mac OS is to install a Windows Partition, and run it on that - it is simply not Mac compatible - and for that you can thank Steve Jobs, and not blame Scenarist.

Trouble is this will invalidate the Apple Support......

So - if you can please let me know what OS you run and what your target disc type is, I will point you in the best direction for getting the job done.

Personally speaking I think Adobe should get talking to Scenarist LLC and relicense the AuthorCore.

Blu-ray.

So, yeah, it's been end of life for the better part of a decade, but the official line on authoring was, if you need it, install cs6 and run Encore.  That's no longer an option.  Feeling pretty deserted by adobe here.