My understanding is Rovi bought Roxi which had bought Sonic. Then Rovi (a streaming company?) killed all the disk products. Scenarist has come back. But in the process, Adobe lost licensing (or it got complicated?) and they couldn’t just continue to use the authorcore (Sonic, same as Scenarist etc). They’d have to start from scratch. But they could just leave Encore CS6 as is.

Frustrating for many uses that still deliver disks. Of the alternatives, many users just continue to use Encore.

Stan Jones

Eric, if you want a free program to burn discs, ImgBurn is a good one. There's also another good one with a deceptive name, CDBurnerXP. It burns CDs, DVDs, AND Blu-ray discs, and it works on any version of Windows from XP to Win10.  But, you have to use a DVD authoring program to create a DVD with the correct layout of files first. That's why you have to get PP CS6, and install Encore off that. I don't know what made Adobe stop updating Encore and remove the dynamic link option that let you go straight from Premiere to Encore to DVD.  Some of my clients want a disc they can throw in their home player and watch on their home TV. They don't care about 4K or anything upscale, and I can't force everyone to take Blu-rays either.  I also send some shows to TV stations that are still broadcasting in SD!  So, I have a very limited need for the 4K stuff, but I still edit my shows in HD and down convert for those who only want SD.