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david dt41184977
david dt41184977
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August 9, 2020
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Recommendations on Encore Replacement

  • August 9, 2020
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Without any warning whatsoever, Adobe pulled the rug out from under me and removed my access to Encore.  I have a dance recital I've built assets for... menus in Photoshop, mpeg files in encoder with chapters... that is due this week, and I have no idea where to turn. 

I've tried to google DVD/Bluray authoring softwares, and I just can't find enough info on any other programs to know what to purchase.  Is there anyone in this community that has had success with another authoring software?  Any help or recommendations will be most appreciated, as talking with 5 reps at Adobe over 3 hours provided me with nothing more than a "Sorry, sucks to be you!"

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Richard van den Boogaard
Community Expert
Richard van den BoogaardCommunity Expert
Community Expert
August 10, 2020

Here's my suggestion: a possible solution might be to forego the option of offering DVD/BluRay altogether and instead go for video files on a portable USB drive? Most modern TVs will play them... especially if encoded as MP4 h.264 files.

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Michael Grenadier
Legend
August 10, 2020

I think we can all blame Steve Jobs...  He started eliminating optical drives from Mac's way back....  But the fact is that fewer and fewer people are buying optical media and the demographic skews... old....   You might also consider using a service like Vimeo for posting videos.  I've had a great many issues managing vimeo distribution and their support has been spotty to say the least.   But for straight posting of videos for viewing/review it is rock solid with a variety of ways to limit your audience with passwords, requiring links, allowing or disabling embedding of the vimeo player and downloading, etc.  

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Media Editor
Inspiring
August 9, 2020

Cyberlink Power2 Go13 has a free version good for a number of days.  If you are creating a Blu-ray disc, the program will accept H.264 videos without reincoding.  You can put an H.264 video on a DVD and  it will be HD quality.  However, you can only put about 25 minutes on the DVD.  It will only play on a Blu-ray player.

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Corgirosie
Participant
January 1, 2021

Unfortunately Power2Go is only for PCs.  I need something compatible with my Mac.  I'm not trying to do anything crazy.  I created a tribute video in iMovie to my brother who passed last year and I simply want to burn it to blu-ray with a menu but can't find anything that works.  It's over an hour long so I want people to be able to skip to different sections easily

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Michael Grenadier
Legend
January 1, 2021
Have you tried Rovio toast?
John T Smith
Community Expert
John T SmithCommunity Expert
Community Expert
August 9, 2020

I have also seen this one mentioned https://www.vegascreativesoftware.com/us/dvd-architect/

Averdahl
Community Expert
AverdahlCommunity Expert
Community Expert
August 9, 2020

I am re-directed to https://www.vegascreativesoftware.com/us/ when i click that link. It seems like DVD Architect is gone as well. 

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Andy 1968
Inspiring
August 9, 2020

Blu-ray/DVD authoring gets mentioned in Premiere Pro forums, FCPX forums, Avid forums, Edius forums etc. If Adobe made a DVD/Blu-ray authoring program that integrated with Premiere Pro but could also work as a stand alone sofware program they could make some money.  Not ony have I had clients that wanted a 4K UHD Blu-ray discs but I have wanted to create some for personal use. We don't need anything as complex as Encore although Encore rocked!

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    Michael Grenadier
    Legend
    August 9, 2020

    but if you had encore installed it should still work.  I have it installed and it still launches...   

    david dt41184977
    david dt41184977Author
    Participant
    August 9, 2020

    It was working back in June with the last project I built.  I opened it today, and it required a license code of which I dont have, as I've been using it through CC.  I reached out to support, and after being passed around for 3 hours, they eventually told me I was SOL because the only license I have is CC, which no longer supports use of Encore.  I dont know what changed from June to now that caused my app to require a unique license.

    Ann Bens
    Community Expert
    Ann BensCommunity Expert
    Community Expert
    August 9, 2020

    Adobe pulled the plug on CS6 (not sure) in may 2019.

    If you bought CS6 some years ago then you can use the licence code (as I did) otherwise there is no way to get it up and running again.

    Good alternatieve imo is:

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

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