Adobe DVD authoring with Encore - summer 2003

[joepic]

The question is, how well this product compare to Vegas 4 with DVD Authoring, DVD Maestro or Scenarist

Adobe is another software company that sees the importance and big potential of the DVD industry. The company mainly known because of its high end graphics software PhotoShop will now also enter the DVD market with high end DVD authoring software. The company was already active on the DVD authoring market with their Adobe Premier software, but Encore, as the new software is called, should be offering a lot more functionality.

Adobe has offered basic DVD authoring tools in some of its video editing products, including Premiere. But with recordable DVD drives becoming increasingly common in new PCs, the company saw a need for a full-featured application that integrates easily with other Adobe products, said Giles Baker, Adobe product manager. One of the main advantages of Encore DVD is that it allows users to easily move content back and forth between it and Adobe's Photoshop image editing application, the most common program for designing the interactive menus DVDs use for navigation. "We've basically taken the guts of Photoshop and put it into Encore," Baker said.

"Adobe is already pretty embedded in the DVD process," Baker added. "All the menus you see are created using Photoshop. We own the work flow pretty much--we just don't have the final product." The market for Encore will be a notch above the amateur end of the DVD market, which uses software from companies such as Roxio and Sonic Solutions that typically comes bundled with the DVD drive. Baker said key target customers will include professional wedding videographers and marketing and advertising pros who need to produce promotional DVDs


Adobe will release the software this summer and it should cost around $549. Intresting is that Adobe will release the software only on the Windows platform. The company released most of it software (first) on the Apple platform, but according to the article, Apple users already have the choice of other capable software.

[dcsos]

There is also a note in the FAQ that says a p4 is required...Does this mean AMD chips will not run the application?
I doubt that but Is there some incompatibility?
I remember opening CCE on a CELERON and getting the message.."Please upgrade to pII to use this software!"

[BJ_M]

adobe has been bashing mac 's a lot lately .. they posted this :
http://www.adobe.com/motion/pcpreferred.html

even naming the page "pc preferred"

This adobe product will be VERY simular to maestro - without some of maestro's deep features .. added will be the fact that it also has the mainconcept encoder and also an ac3 encoder (as in DVDA)..

it is tightly tied into photoshop also..

rather like using maestro and dvd menu studio (dvd menu studio is still better geared towards menu creation though in some respects, though who can beat photoshop)

XP and intel they say is required but i can hardly believe it will not run on an AMD (that would not be a great marketing ploy) .

[SaSi]

Adobe have created a name for good quality software and I would expect them to live up to that reputation.

They aim to the professional market, so the program should be in the same league with DVDMaestro and Scenarist. I would expect it to be more usable and better in some ways (after all it's newer).

Close integration (sic) with Photoshop, AfterEffects, etc, implies ease in creating fancy transitions, graphics and menus, although this task is never easy by definition

[BJ_M]

Adobe have created a name for good quality software and I would expect them to live up to that reputation.

They aim to the professional market, so the program should be in the same league with DVDMaestro and Scenarist. I would expect it to be more usable and better in some ways (after all it's newer).

Close integration (sic) with Photoshop, AfterEffects, etc, implies ease in creating fancy transitions, graphics and menus, although this task is never easy by definition :lol:

not the same league as maestro and scenarist -- it is close to maestro in some regards , but adobe makes it clear that it is aimed as a step above lower end products ... but it is not aimed at the high end pro ...

[Greg12]

I will be eager to get this program. Adobe products are really good (i have premiere, pagemaker and photoshop) and every day I seem to learn something new about them.

I"m hoping Encore will continue this process, Scenarist is just to hard to learn and few programs do AC3. DVDit does but it has a huge bug that misestimaters the space on the disk so i think the disk is full n when it burns, it is only half full.