[Mitch Ives] "For the last two years I've been on industry panels with Adobe reps where they hammer home the point that FCP can't do BR, but they can. How can they say that when they know it isn't true? "
TECHNICALLY it's true. DVDSP cannot produce BluRay Discs. Encore can IF all you want is a Play Button. Adobe simply doesn't own up to this limitation.
[Mitch Ives] "Does anybody have any thoughts on how to communicate the seriousness of this to Adobe? "
Mitch, I was in communication with Nathan Gentner, the product manager for Encore for about 8 months. The last four months he has stopped communicating with us. Not sure how much higher up the food chain you can go that directly to the head of Adobe.
I honestly think Adobe just don't care because if you look at the Adobe Home Page and the Adobe Products page, Encore is not shown at all. You have to go into the list on the Products page to even find it. But every other component of CS3 is featured prominently on both of those pages. You have to buy Premiere anyway just to get to Encore so as long as Premiere works, I guess Adobe figures we have nothing to complain about because we're getting Encore "for free."
Bottom line is Encore is not what you want for BluRay authoring, it does not come close to what Adobe says it will do.
I have purchased a new HP Workstation and will begin using DoStudio from NetBlender in about two weeks to work on our BluRay discs. I will report our progress in my blog and will also give an update here once we have been able to produce a title or two.
I really hate having to purchase a Windows machine, but on the flip side, the fully tricked our HP machine, including the BluRay burner, was only $1700. My tricked out Octo Core was just over $5,000.
Walter Biscardi, Jr.
Biscardi Creative Media
HD and SD Production for Broadcast and Independent Productions.
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