Question on Encore dvd 1.5 vs 2. users Help

[ultraman36]

Hey for those of you who have used Adobe Encore dvd 1.5 and have tried the newer 2.0 version how different are the 2? There are no training books out for 2. one comes out march 19(more of a getting started book) and another one comes out in May. if i get one of the 1.5 books do you think i can still learn alot from it or should i just wait for the 2.0 version?

[ultraman36]

Someone has to have Encore 1.5 and tried the 2.0 version how different are they

[edward77]

ok, here goes my reply, but to answer to ultraman before this LOONG reply.. YES if you learn Encore DVD 1.5 or 1.5.1 you have 98% of Adobe Encore 2.0 The only difference is the GUI and the new flow diagram, which, with Encore's ease of use, is useless. HEHEHE.

SO NOW... my reply 8)

I've been using Encore since its 1.5 version. That one was very buggy & 1.5.1 wasn't an excellent update. There was a guy saying that he has made a lot of projects (something like 70... he thinks thats a lot.. good for him) I've created AT LEAST 450 projects and to be brief, a lot ended up in coasters. Now I've bought the 2.0 version, I realized Adobe resist to admit that their subtitle format is the worst ever done. In 1.5/1.5.1 subs were the most weak part of it(changing a sub of character format took up to 1 min!). Now that lag is gone... but at a price: if you want to get some italics anywhere, Encore changes THE WHOLE STREAM to italics, even if you just select it for one or two subs. They preview correctly, but when burnt, the DVD will show ONLY ITALICS. Shame on this matter for the so called "Encore Creation Group".

Another bothering nd very confusing detail: When burning I was expecting to se again like in ol 1.5.x version, this kind of info: estimated time: (hh:mms) progress: xx.xx MB/GB of xx.xxGB
Now.... what you really get is something like (and this is literally): 2.5234EX + 3EB completed... WHAT THE HELL DOES THAT MEAN??? Someone thought a DVD builder would die to know WHAT BLOCK CELL or DISK SEGMENT is Encore burning at every second? I doubt it. I want to know the data size of my project not the cell numbers!

Dont get me wrong, these are very disturbing things in such a great software, i still believe it is, but I just wanted to point out that software new versions are supposed to enhance the product... and this is not one of those cases.

[ultraman36]

Thank edward77 my projects arent going to be nearly as complicated as you and im not going to do that many as well. I was hoping to make an iso then burn the iso with another program.