DVD Architect 2 vs Adobe Encore DVD 1.5

NickHope wrote on 6/12/2004, 9:19 AM

I hate these sort of questions too, but does anyone have an informed opinion of which is better?

I'm currently using Premiere 6.5 and TMPGEnc DVD Author, but I want to upgrade. So far I prefer Vegas 5 to Premiere Pro for editing, but I'm interested to see how the 2 companies' DVD products stack up.

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kentwolf wrote on 6/13/2004, 10:16 PM

I use Encore 1.5 and am exremely pleased.

I do also have DVD-A 2.

Encore is excellent to a large extent because of Photoshop support for menus. This pretty much makes it so you can do whatever you want with respect to menus...without having to know XML; DVD-A's menu/theme format.

The main reason I went with Encore was because it looked like DVD-A was dead and lacked a lot of necessary features. I essentially got tired of waiting.

Encore still has some features that DVD-A doesn't, like the ability to make a text string a button. I do believe there are others, but I cannot remember right now.

I know DVD-A 1.0 was a fine program and did what it did very well. I am not as familiar with DVD-A 2.0.

Encore 1.5 is terrific. Encore 1.0 did have a rough start in some respects, but 1.5 is dramatically better. I love it.

Encore 1.5 coupled with Vegas 5 is an unbeatable combination.

NickHope wrote on 6/18/2004, 1:52 AM

Thanks a lot kentwolf. TMPGEnc DVD Author that I'm using right now have promised the addition of subtitles. That make it good enough for me to carry on with, but it looks like I'll be going the Encore route. Cheers.

PAW wrote on 6/18/2004, 8:55 AM

There are downloadable tryout for both so I would take a look yourself.

I looked at Encore but the DVDA2 came out in time for me to stay with that.

I struggle with the Adobe interface, poor window management, 10 clicks instead of two for common options, a windows platform that does not have a toolbar!

DVDA2 has the quality interface we are used two and has some integration with Vegas i.e markers being passed as chapter points

there is also a whitepaper in the download section that covers the new features

Paul

Cunhambebe wrote on 6/18/2004, 4:28 PM

Haven't tried Adobe yet, but DVDA2.0 definitely rocks. Try DVDA2.0. I am extremely pleased, trust me.

Erni wrote on 6/18/2004, 4:52 PM

The only advantage of Encore 1.5 is the posibility of import text with time code for the subtitles. Nice feature, maybe in DVDA2.1 ;)