Creating menus, with DVD or Blu-ray authoring program

[Reddwarf4ever]

Need create a DVD ( or if not Blu-ray ) menu

main menu

wedding 1

wedding 2

wedding 3

wedding 4

when any of the weddings are clicked in, it would offer another page with the episodes attached to that wedding.....e.g. clicking on wedding 2 would give a page with

1-The ceremony

2-photos and confetti

3-the reception

be good if this page could have a heading saying “ Wedding 2” and a button to return to the main screen......this is exactly what I need.....is it possible with DVD or Blu-ray or both ?

have heard playlists maybe the solution, but can't find out if this App supports this, or indeed what authoring program does ☹️ 
if can't use playlists, been told that the ' episodes' are defaulted as chapters so could use this mentos to achieve what I want, does that make sense ???

thanks in advance

[RjL190365 · Accepted solution]

Premiere Pro cannot do this on its own, unfortunately. You will have to purchase a third-party authoring program in order to do this. What's more, the files created by Premiere Pro alone cannot be played back at all on a standalone video player even when burned onto disk since these disks are detected as data-only disks by the player, and will therefore reject those disks.

Adobe used to offer an authoring program called Encore, but it has been EOL'd with the discontinuation of Premiere Pro CS6, and is now no loner available legitimately at all. Adobe now restricts version availability to the two newest major versions of all of its Creative Cloud programs.

[Reddwarf4ever]

Hi

Thanks for the info, so that means effectively that Adobe do not produce a program to suit my needs ?

Pity......any ideas what authoring program may be suitable ?


Thank you

[RjL190365]

It's true. Adobe does not offer a program at all that suits your needs because it would have to pay the owner of the authoring engine's intellectual property, which had been sold to another company at the time of Encore's EOL. The new owner substantially increased the licensing fees since then, making the inclusion of Encore or any Creative Cloud equivalent economically untenable. The only way for Adobe to offer an authoring program again would be to revert back to the prepaid, perpetually-licensed model with distribution only on disk through authorized retailers, which Adobe announced that it would never do again.

The licensing fees alone would have made Premiere Pro, had it included an authoring program, more expensive than all of the other Creative Cloud programs combined in a Creative Cloud subscription. An all-app subscription, paid on a monthly basis, would have cost not $55 per month, but closer to $150 per month, if a Creative Cloud equivalent to Encore were to have been included.

[Reddwarf4ever]

Hello

Thank you so much for such a detailed reply, very interesting how marketing, decisions work....

I suppose if Encore were still available, it may well suit my needs ? 8) pity 😂😂😂

Thank you for your help

Keep safe & well 🙏

[Andy 1968]

Adobe could and should create a brand new DVD/Blu-ray/CD authoring program. Maybe not a complex as Encore but it should integate 100% with Premiere Pro but also work as a stand alone program for Avid, FCPX, Edius etc.

[Reddwarf4ever]

Agreed

[Ann Bens]

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