There will be no more Encore CS 6 upgrades or updates. TMPGEnc Authoring Works 6 has a free trial version. You can create DVD and Blu-ray discs. This program has recently been updated(September 27, 2017). I think it is possible they will upgrade the program to include authoring Ultra HD Blu-ray discs.
Since Adobe capriciously and callously discontinued such a vital part of the workflow of MANY PEOPLE, this is exactly the place to discuss it. The idea that I can no longer make customer menus in Photoshop and then use them to create menus within an Adobe environment is MADDENING.
I also wonder if Adobe would consider talking to Scenarist LLC - they bought the rights to everything back off Rovi, and not only to develop the UHD tools but Scenarist BD and Scenarist SD have also had updates and bugfixes - it is quite possible they would consider redoing the licensing to Adobe again - remember it was Rovi who killed Encore off, not Adobe or Sonic Solutions (as was)
For straight SD, Encore does work reasonably well but if an alternative is wanted people could do very well indeed with Media Chance Labs DVD-Lab Pro 2. This does things even Scenarist cannot manage and works well on Windows 7 (I do not know about W8-10)
Adobe could not have reverse engineered the authorcore & reworked it - not legally. One of the things that the regular bunch who all want everything from SD to UHD in one package including all necessary encoders for about $50 (and even at that price I wager serious numbers will still look for hacked versions) all tend to forget is that this is all patented & licensed technology.
Adobe's Authorcore was from Sonic Solutions, who had the rights to Daikin's original Scenarist application. Encore's core was from the at the time unused "DVD Producer" application and all Adobe did was added their own front end into the author core, which is effectively the multiplexing engine & the bit with all the hooks for the GUI to be added to - it sets the ground rules for what is & is not allowable in theory, with the local (Adobe) developers in this case deciding what sections they are prepared to give access to.
When Sonic Solutions were bought out by Rovi, Rovi diod not remove the license from Adobe, they closed down the entire Optical Disc section altogether including (after leaving a years grace) all support for Scenarist DVD & Blu-ray as well as the Sonic DVDA tools. The consumer grade stuff was flogged off to someone else (I cannot remember who offhand) but all the pro stuff was canned totally, leaving no support at all.
Interestingly, it seems that Sony are now out of the game too - Sony Creative Software is gone. Some of the lower end stuff has been flogged off to Magix, but all the serious stuff is gone including all optical disc (not sure if Blu-Print is still going, but don't much care) stuff. No more Vegas, Soundforge, Spectral Layers/Pro, DVD Architect etc.
In closing (and I honestly do have a point) there is room for Adobe to come in hard here, and add optical disc packages to the CC package as there is next to no alternative out there at a professional grade. All there is now is Scenarist & DVD-Lab Pro 2.
If you have used the trial version of TMPGEnc Authoring Works 6, let us know your opinion of the software. Who are you creating the DVD's and Blu-ray's for? I have some 4K UHD videos that I have experimented with. I use a converting program(Brorsoft) that converts the videos to 1920 x 1080 format. Using Encore CS6, I create Blu-ray discs. The quality is similar to the original 4K quality. If your audience is the general public, they will be impressed with the quality of the videos. I also have edited 3840 x 2160 videos in Premiere Pro CC 2018. I uploaded them to Vimeo. I send a link to the videos They can be watched on a computer, tablet, etc. They can also be downloaded and put on a flash drive. If someone has a 4K television with USB ports they can play the videos. If they have a 4k UHD player with a USB port, they can also play the videos. However, there no menus.
Thanks for the response, Michael. I have not used TMPGEnc Authoring Works 6 yet. I have heard mixed reviews. The main thing it has going for it is that the company supports it and continues to improve it, unlike Adobe with Encore CS6.
I do shoot in 4K, edit in Adobe Premiere Pro CC 2018, and output to all types of media, including Blu-ray and DVD using Adobe Encore CS6. I just wished Adobe would support Encore and would improve its 1990's-era non-intuitive interface. The functionality is decent, but it would be great to see it improved, including the addition of 4K UHD.
TMPGEnc or TSUNAMI MPEG Encoder is a video transcoder software application primarily for encoding video files to VCD and SVCD-compliant MPEG video formats and was developed by Hiroyuki Hori and Pegasys Inc.[3] TMPGEnc can also refer to the family of software video encoders created after the success of the original TMPGEnc encoder. These include: TMPGEnc Plus, TMPGEnc Free Version, TMPGenc Video Mastering Works, TMPGEnc Authoring Works, TMPGEnc MovieStyle and TMPGEnc MPEG Editor. TMPGEnc products run on Microsoft Windows.
The free trial version of TMPGEnc Video Mastering works has a 14-day time limit.[4] The TMPGEnc Free Version has 30-day time limit for MPEG-2 encoding, MPEG-1 encoding is without limit, but it can be used only for non-commercial, personal or demonstration purposes.[3][5]
The first beta versions of the TMPGEnc encoder were freely available in 2000 and 2001 and were known as Tsunami MPEG Encoder.[6] The first "stable" version was TMPGEnc 2.00, released on 2001-11-01.[7] In December 2001, sales of "TMPGEnc Plus" started in Japan. In January 2002, the "TMPGEnc Plus - English version" was released.[8] In August 2002, TMPGEnc DVD Source Creator was released and bundled with Sony "Vaio" PC in Japan. In April 2003, "TMPGEnc DVD Author - English version" was released. In March 2005, Tsunami MPEG Video Encoder XPress was released. In August 2005, "TSUNAMI" and "TMPGEnc" were combined into one brand.[8]
TMPGEnc Plus/TMPGEnc Free Version was often rated as one of the best-quality MPEG-1/MPEG-2 encoders, alongside Canopus ProCoder and Cinema Craft Encoder.[9][10][11][12] The popularity of TMPGEnc encoders has spawned various other products and "TMPGEnc" is now used as a general brand name for products such TMPGEnc Authoring Works (a consumer-grade Blu-ray Disc, DVD, and DivX authoring tool), TMPGEnc MovieStyle (a video converter primarily for portable and set-top devices), and TMPGEnc MPEG Editor (an MPEG editing program). TMPGEnc Plus is currently still sold by Pegasys Inc., alongside TMPGEnc Video Mastering Works, TMPGEnc Authoring Works, TMPGEnc MovieStyle, TMPGEnc MPEG Editor, TMPGEnc Instant Show Presenter, and TMPGEnc KARMA..Plus.[13] The TMPGEnc Free Version was updated in 2008 for compatibility with Windows Vista (SP1 included).[7]
TMPGEnc Plus in first releases provided advanced MPEG-1 and MPEG-2 video encoding with various technical options, MPEG-1 Layer II and Layer I audio encoding, support for external audio encoders (such as toolame, l3enc, mp3enc, LAME), internal video filters (such as deinterlacing), support for various input formats (AVI, MPEG, WAV, sequence JPEG, TGA files, etc.) depending on installed DirectShow filters, VFAPI frameserver support,[14] support for AVI, WAV, BMP, TGA output and other features.[7] TMPGEnc encoders can read most video formats, as long as the appropriate DirectShow filters are installed in the system.[7][15] TMPGEnc Plus and TMPGEnc Free Version include tool named "MPEG Tools", which is a simple multiplexer and demultiplexer for MPEG containers (MPEG program stream).
TMPGEnc Video Mastering Works also provides HD MPEG-4 AVC/H.264 output support, Blu-ray Disc output support, AVCHD input support, DVD-Video and DVD-VR input support, MKV input and output support, FLV input, etc.[16] It is the first TMPGEnc product to incorporate the x264 encoding engine for MPEG-4 AVC/H.264 output and is the first software product to commercially license the x264 encoder.[17]New to TMPGEnc Video Mastering Works 6 over previous versions is H.265/HEVC encoding support (4K and 8K), H.264/AVC 10-bit format (4:2:2 and 4:4:4) output support, and more.[13][18]
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