DVD Authoring in the Post-Encore Days?

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October 18, 2019
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We have a client who continues to require a DVD of their finished products as part of their deliverables. Now that Adobe no longer alows access to CS6/Encore, what are you folks using? I need an authoring tool that will 1). run in Windows 7 (it's a long story why we can't upgrade), 2). allow for closed-caption sidecar files and 3). auto-sync the separate video and audio files created in a PPCC MPEG-2 export. Any recommendations?

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Ann Bens

Community Expert

If its free it usually is very limited.

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Media Editor

Inspiring

DVD Styler is a free program for creating DVD discs, not Blu-ray discs. It does not reincode MPEG2-DVD videos created in Premiere.

jimd67317840Author

Known Participant

Michael-- I checked the Styler website and it mentions subtitles, but do you know if I can add true closed-captions using sidecar (.scc) files? That's a requirement on all government productions.

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Andy Urtu

Inspiring

I also use TMPGEnc. It is a very good DVD/BluRay tool. Not quite as powerfule as Encore, but very good.

jimd67317840Author

Known Participant

Andy, have you ever used .scc sidecar caption files with your projects in TMPGEnc? Just want to be sure that function is available before I buy it. I emailed the company this afternoon but haven't heard back from them yet.

Averdahl

Community Expert

I use Authoring works as well and it does not support .scc captioning files.

But, it is possible to convert the .scc captioning files to .srt using the free of charge app SubtitleEdit. SubtitleEdit is capable of batch converting as well.