DVD SP was pretty amazing app at the time. did a bit of scripting with it to make menus work.  the only bad part was the crappy Mpeg2 encoder, especially when concerning making closed GOP encodes for multi angle. incredibly tedious and painful, but it did work with a lot of care.

S

On Jul 3, 2018, at 2:46 PM, Adam Mercado <AE-List@media-motion.tv> wrote:

This thread makes me reminisce of DVD Studio Pro. Faultless app. Like many I don’t do dvds any more, but there was a time every job was. Full motion menus and everything. I’ve yet to do a blu ray but from what I understand it’s not quite as easy to author as dvd was/is

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On Jul 3, 2018, at 10:52 AM, Byron Nash <AE-List@media-motion.tv> wrote:

I'm curious to know if anyone has switched to Scenarist or DVD Architect? We still create distribution DVD's here for our films that get sold in major retailers. So, I'm still in the thick of DVD creation unfortunately. Just always wishing it was a bit smoother than it is in Encore. 

On Tue, Jul 3, 2018 at 7:37 AM Stan Jones <AE-List@media-motion.tv> wrote:

Also, Perry’s point here is important:

 

> The problem in my experience is to find an application that will format supplied Mpeg2 file(s) without re-encoding the actual video and audio.

 

The DVD spec is exacting. And the Sonic authorcore (same as used in the top end Scenarist and also in Encore) was unforgiving. And this caused difficulty when importing assets that were not to spec.

 

Some of the other authoring applications did not allow for keeping imported assets that were actually to spec. Or did not allow the un-multiplexed assets (eg. m2v, wav, a3c) to be brought in separately.

 

Stan