[Ben Holmes] "Thanks for the info - but I'm Mac only..."
Us too.
[Ben Holmes] "Two things: Making Blu-Ray disks ain't rocket science. Other company's products work. "
Actually, it is. Through my posts on this forum, my blog and the FCP Forum, I have been by some incredible people who work in the commercial bluray industry for very VERY large studios. What I have learned is that BluRay specs are an incredibly complicated set of specs that were basically designed so nobody but Sony could ever create the proper software to burn a disc. In the words of one person who contacted me, "A kid can program DVD authoring software, BluRay software is incredibly hard."
Note that the "other company's" software cost in the neighborhood of $50,000 and up and that's for a reason. Toast doesn't count because it's a very VERY limited software. I think the complexity of BluRay authoring is one reason we have not seen Apple's DVDSP cross in to BluRay.
[Ben Holmes] "If they haven't got it working by now, it should be withdrawn from sale for OSX. If not that, it should be made VERY clear on Adobe's site it is broken. "
Funny you should mention that because Encore is not featured on the Home Page, nor is it featured on the Products Page. You have to go into the menus to find it. Almost like Adobe is trying to hide it from any unwarranted attention right now.
[Ben Holmes] "If there are class-action suits to be entered, I'm in. I'll be lucky if this hasn't cost me a client.
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It nearly cost us our largest client. A large six figures per year client. And he's still not a happy camper because we had to scrap the BluRays we were working on for over 6 months and simply release something with a "Play" button.
In fact Encore was responsible for my company missing our first deadline ever, and we've been open since 2001. We delivered the BluRays 4 months after they were promised.
[Ben Holmes] "You know - what really bums me out is that I did the right thing. Faced with a new technology I went for the expensive industry standard. Not a free version, or cheap standalone. I paid Adobe's high prices for something they advertise for Blu-Ray ease of use. "
That's what we did too, in fact we purchased two versions of Production Premium CS3 only to return one because Adobe conveniently was very quiet about the fact that Premiere and Encore do not work on G5 machines, only Intel. It's not that they didn't say it didn't work, they just didn't say anything at all. Took us 6 months to get our money back and that was only through the hard work of our VAR.
[Ben Holmes] "I'm a little angry. "
After 12 months of this, I'm with you Ben.
Walter Biscardi, Jr.
Biscardi Creative Media
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