How can I run Encore CS5 on Sonoma? (Authoring DVDs)

Report · Feb 28, 2024

I just wrapped up my first feature documentary, "Hemp Disconnected," and I'm trying to burn it onto a DVD. Man, have I been out of the loop on all this. I think I'll have to call my next documentary "DVDs Discontinued" and just rant on for 3 hours about how much of a pain in the *** it is to encode a DVD nowadays. After spending hours looking for a workaround on my Macbook M1 I eventually booted up my laptop from 2008 and ran a copy of CS5 Encore on there, and that has been the closest I have gotten to encoding a DVD. Why is it so exceedingly difficult to find a way to burn a DVD on today's Macs? I have an external DVD drive, and I understand that Mac got rid of the DVD drives in their laptops but this is just ridiculous. Is there a way to run Encore CS5 on my new Mac? Any feedback would be greatly appreciated!

Report · Feb 29, 2024

I haven't used this, but have a look here:

https://www.roxio.com/en/products/toast/?psafe_param=1&utm_medium=cpc&utm_source=google&utm_campaign...

Report · Aug 16, 2024

Tried this. I'm really disappointed with it, espcially with the price tag on it. Encore worked great--it was entirely customizable. Toast isn't something I can figure out. The buttons are weird. It crashes every time I try to upload a background video for the menu. Even when I look for how-to videos online there's not much and some of them are referencing buttons that aren't on the program anymore. DVD's are just totally phased out of not only the industry at this point but from the consumer market.

Report · Aug 16, 2024

There is no way to run Adobe Encore CS5 on an Apple Silicon based Mac.

You might be able to find a 2010 to 2013 13-inch MacBook Pro with built in Superdrive (Apple's fancy name for DVD/CD drive that can read and write DVD and CD media). An iMac from them could also work or 2010 to 2012 Mac Pro tower - even a 2013 Mac Pro with an external burner would work.

You'll need to run macOS 10.9 to 10.12.

Activation may be a little tricky.

Roxio Toast is still available for macOS, but doesn't support authoring Hollywood style DVDs. Encore didn't do that so well, either. I'd try to find the version of DVD Studio Pro that was included with Final Cut Studio 3. That, or Sonic Scenarist.

Are you looking to burn one-off screeners or do you have DVD-Video distribution lined up?

Report · Aug 16, 2024

I'm trying to burn a Hollywood style DVD -- I was able to install Encore on my 2008 MacBook, and for the most part it looks pretty good, but I can't for the life of me figure out how to get the subtitles on there, and I've been having issues trying to fit extra features onto it. But the good stuff-- the customizable menus with the background video when you load it, and the ability to photoshop menus too, that's all working pretty well. But it's still questionable because it's buring on my 2008 Macbook, so there's always slow downs with that which I wouldn't mind so much if I could at least figure out the subtitles.

Report · Aug 26, 2024

Creating subtiles with Adobe Encore may feel like an uphill battle (that's not specific to Encore, it kind of was for most DVD-Video authoring solutions). If you're not going to create them manually in Encore, you'll need a 2-bit TIFF file for each subtitle and a text document that defines the time index for each one (when each one starts and stops during the video).