Neil, thanks for posting. Several users are asking about alternatives. Encore, short term, is no better or worse than it was, except that you cannot use dynamic link.  But longer term, Adobe has stated (http://www.adobe.com/products/encore/faq.edu.html) that it will not update operating system support: "Encore CS6 is supported on Microsoft® Windows® 7 with Service Pack 1 (64 bit) and Mac OS X v10.6.8 or v10.7. Please note that Encore CS6 support for future operating system updates or new hardware platforms will not be provided." This is contrary to the plan for other CS6 apps. The Encore FAQ is silent regarding bug fixes, but I doubt we'll see any more than in the last rounds. Many users are asking about alternatives. For simple authoring there are options. But what does the pro user now do without Scenarist or the like? ... View more

Perhaps their problem is that they think of it as an Extension to Premiere Pro instead of a standalone product. If they fixed the problems, there might even be people willing to pay $20 per month for a DVD creation tool, especially if they only paid for the month when they needed it. The Adobe rationale for discontinuing development of a DVD authoring program is disengenuous. DVD/BD may be on the way out, but so is SD media - and they don't remove SD workflows from PR. Many long term customers rely on DVD and Bluray for bread and butter income - and they have been begging for important bug fixes and features enhancements still. But arguments for them keeping it in order to make money can't take into account their costs. Ending Encore saves them a whole department of employees. Contrary to the commitment for all the rest of CS6, they explicitly plan no bug fixes or operating system updates for Encore CS6. And we do not know what they pay for the Sonic authorcore Encore is built on. Hmm, maybe they are dropping it becuase Sonic/Roxio/Rove (with the end to Scenarist) dropped them! I always assumed they couldn't do more development because the deal with Sonic was too good to renogiate. But I'll bet they are on a SUBSCRIPTION plan and pay every month. As they listened to users complaining about the Adobe move to subscription, they realized they'd rather have perpetual license! So a few months from now, they'll announce that, in response to customer requests, they are adding a new application, Encore Pro. Bottom line, with Encore CS6, as second rate as it is, it authors well enough for folks to deliver product. Adobe saves dollars. ... View more

The main problem I had with Dynamic Link and Encore was random single video frames popping up in various places on the finished DVD. Had I not watched the entire DVD closely I would have never caught it. This happened on several projects and once I stopped using Dynamic Link the random frames stopped. I don't think anyone found a workaround or solution to this. There were a few other users affected by this. ... View more

what are these problems using DL from PPro CS6 to Encore? Projects going from HD to SD (downrezzing) seemed to have  problems with dynamic link. This may have improved from the earlier dynamic link versions, but the problems were reported often enough that many users did not use it and discouraged others using it. And when you are having a problem (of any type) in an Encore project and you are using dynamic link, avoiding it was the most likely fix. The Automatic transcode option is an important point of using dynamic link, and you could not control some of the transcode options (e.g. scale to fill - that was essential for HD to SD). In earlier versions, quality was better if you used your own export from Premiere, and many users found the best quality in third party export options. This improved in newer versions of Premiere/AME, but I don't think it convinced many users to go back to dynamic link. And for bluray projects, there continue to be too frequent reports of Encore overshooting the disk size. Dynamic link just continued to have a too high frustration factor. The users who had the best success with dynamic link were using SD to SD. Dynamic link should have been improved, not abandoned. ... View more

I have been doing extensive reading via Google searches and have found that some people said it is fixed in the Creative Cloud version of CS6.  Does anyone know if this is true? Until the "CC" version of the cloud subscription was released earlier this week, there was only CS6. Premiere was the same whether you subscribed or bought a license. The AVCHD spanned clip bug existed in CS6 whether it was licensed by subscription or purchase. Some of the confusion is that it does not affect all AVCHD spanned clips. Adobe, while they have identified the bug and it is not present in CC, has not told us what the difference is between clips that show the bug and those that don't. Thus the thread that assumes that some cameras work and some don't. But like the early days of AVCHD files when some users had problems and others didn't, one of the variables was bitrate of the files. Not all AVCHD clips were the same. For all we know, some specific model cameras may work under some conditions and not others. So far, no one has reported a camera as working and another user reported it as not working. I have not heard the "dual memory card" issue, but I am not an expert in this. Anyone? ... View more

See this thread: http://forums.adobe.com/message/5431966#5431966 That camera has no results as of the last post. ... View more

What do all the pro video production companies use ? The answer used to be Scenarist, now owned by Rovi. Links to Scenarist there appear to be dead. Look at post 5 here: http://forums.adobe.com/message/5309554 Sony products and others? http://www.videohelp.com/tools/sections/authoring-bd-hd-dvd ... View more

I don't think anyone reporting here has researched the alternatives sufficiently. Short term, those of us who own (well, rent with a perpetual license or otherwise have access to) Encore CS6, will continue to use it. In the meantime, we'll research alternatives. Start here: http://www.videohelp.com/tools/sections/authoring-bd-hd-dvd Note that this listing shows an Encore "CC 7.0," which does not, of course, exist. I sent them a note. ... View more

Encore CS6 is not gone. They just didn't upgrade it to CC. You still have it, and new users can still get it. Let's not get into semantics. It is "gone" from CC, it is "gone" from the ability to dynamic link, it is gone from being supported in Windows 8 etc, it is gone from future development. The fact that Encore CS6 is still available means it is not "gone." But Encore CC that everyone expected with at least the same functionality as before is "gone." ... View more

What Adobe is thinking is in http://www.adobe.com/products/encore/faq.html That's what they're saying; not what they are thinking. ... View more

I absolutely NEED Encore. In fact I'm losing money today and telling a client he has to go somewhere else, because two days ago I could have made his BluRay, and now I can't. Encore is not gone; just not being updated beyond CS6. Just stick with CS6 suite. Then evaluate the new Premiere CC to Encore CS6 workflows. If you are used to dynamic link and it works for you, you won't like it. If not, it may be fine. It just occurrs to me that there have been several Premiere project save as options that are mentioned when we have asked about backwards compatibility of Premiere CC projects to CS6 (e.g. xml designed for cross fcp workflows). Work in PR CC if it has something  you need, then save project for CS6 and move there for final tweaking? ... View more

I want very badly to say a curse word You are not alone. Then again, I do not plan to subscribe; I just cannot justify the cost. CS6 works, or I have workarounds. But what was Adobe thinking to give up dynamic link between Premiere and the DVD/Bluray authoring app?! ... View more

To reinstall,you may have to go on line to find it. Be sure it is not just a shortcut you are missing. Look in the CS6 program directory itself. ... View more

For anyone else reading this, DO NOT uninstall CS6 until you understand how to keep Encore CS6. There is no Encore in CC. There is no problem reinstalling it, but you a) must install Premiere CS6 (which installs Encore), then uninstall Premiere CS6, unchecking Encore as part of what is being uninstalled. You can, of course, simply leave CS6 or Premiere CS6 also installed. I do not have CC, but I believe that, once you are logged into your CC subscription, you can find the installer on line. ... View more

Grin... what Stan said, at 5:13 AM while I was still sleeping Well, it was 8:15 my time! ... View more

The loss of being able to easily mark a clip was a huge bummer for me as well. You can still export markers from Premiere, but I don't think we know yet what formats will work correctly with the "new" CC markers. I hope that the only change they made was in the GUI, and that the actual technical information being  transmitted in the xml files is the same. And it was a bit of a point to update markers. But no question; dynamic link was a very useful way to work interactively in creating DVDs and Blurays. Even if you abandoned it in the end and used exported files. ... View more

John is using a 2 transcode method: once to get the avi (which for his purposes serves as a "not too lossy" step), and again in Encore where he is using the "automatic" transcode setting to let Encore do the bit budgeting when it transcodes. For DVD, the ONLY final format that Encore will not transcode again is MPEG2-DVD. (Bluray is another matter.) Most users who are not using dynamic link a) export from Premiere/AME as MPEG2-DVD and do the bit budgeting or b) export a lossless intermediate from Premiere/AME (or frame serve), and transcode that to MPEG2-DVD using a non-Adobe transcoder. The list of files Encore will import is here: http://helpx.adobe.com/encore/using/importing-assets.html ... View more

I want to know WHY they did this. I believe it is not because the world is changing to streaming media. I assume it is because they do not believe that should put the development dollars into the program. Sonic to Roxio to Rovi, which has dropped Scenarist... They can't get someone else to do it. And they can't even fix serious problems with even working around to a pro level (e.g. the gaps issue). And I'll bet they are saving a bundle by announcing it ends with CS6. ... View more

I disagree.  I had high hopes of Adobe someday adding the capability for continuous menu video and audio, which BD is capable of. I don't disagree with that! In the quality of offerings across the Adobe line, you would expect nothing less than what any pro user would consider basic functionality. Just like the ridiculous absence of Bluray chapter playlists initially. ... View more

Where did you find this? This contradicts that CS6 will be updated for the next major OS. Does Adobeo stay to anything they say? Right in the FAQs cited above.  Yes, it appears to contradict the general statements about keeping CS6 updated for future OSs. "Encore CS6 is supported on Microsoft® Windows® 7 with Service Pack 1 (64 bit) and Mac OS X v10.6.8 or v10.7. Please note that Encore CS6 support for future operating system updates or new hardware platforms will not be provided" ... View more

How can one uninstall everyting CSx related but keep Encore CSx installed, including the functional content? A user, in his first post in the forums, explains how: you install PR CS6 (which includes Encore CS6), then delete PR. You're left with Encore CS6. http://forums.adobe.com/message/5423214#5423214 It is true, you can have Encore CS6 as part of the Cloud, but that is an embarrassing way to do it. ... View more

But I use a lot of Precomposed templates so if you know another authoring software which can handle these, please tell me. I'm interested in Jon Geddes' take on all this. ... View more

That is a "feature" no one was touting. I still find it hard to believe they've left CC with no integrated authoring tool. But I believe it has little to do with their really believing that DVD/BD is dead. (And they are officially just saying that they believe "The trend in the video and broadcast industry is moving away from physical media distribution." and "The future is in cloud and streaming content. Therefore we are focusing more on products that deliver to streaming services.") http://www.adobe.com/products/encore/faq.html The reality is that from their licensing the authorcore from Sonic, Encore was always behind. They added some features that were always a bit off, I still believe because they couldn't take on the authorcore. They don't want to be bothered with fixing the Adobe problems that are in Encore or otherwise investing in what, for many of us, is an essential tool for our work. While many users had problems with, or otherwise did not like, dynamic link between Premiere and Encore, there appears to be no workaround to continue using DL from CC to Encore CS6. ... View more

If they'd fix a few of the serious flaws, it wouldn't matter that they add nothing new. Pretty lame. ... View more

Extraordinary move on their part. Here is where they explain the work(around)flow: http://tv.adobe.com/watch/davtechtable/using-premiere-pro-cc-encore-cs6-for-bluray-dvd-and-interactive-video-for-ipadatv-and-mobile-hd/ ... View more

Well, Adobe has said that CS6 will receive bug fixes. But I doubt they had Encore in mind, and some important bugs weren't fixed even in major releases. so I agree with your conclusion. Other programs.... ... View more

Wow. ... View more

For most people, these are the issues: Encore is included with Premiere, but it is a separate install. Some cloud users seem to have trouble finding the program to run once it is installed. Look in any adobe apps folder. http://forums.adobe.com/message/5279193#5279193 ... View more

A truly gripping credit! Woof! ... View more

Todd is the best! ... View more