I am always able to dust off my authoring skills and do it that way. For that, I still have a MacPro 1 1 with DVD Studio Pro on it. They wanted to discuss both ways of delivery with me - either my sending a hard drive with the master program on it, or my authoring of a DVD on my own. The last one I did for them was around a year ago. (Mine looked better, thank you very much.) I also remember plenty of times when I was simply sending all of the elements to PBS directly and they were doing it. I remember plenty of times when I authored DVDs myself. There were many ways to deliver shows to them for meetig their home video offer requirements. I've been an editor of PBS documentaries for decades, and have gone through not only the disc authoring process, but also the VHS process that came before it.īack then it was called PBS Home Video, which eventually was rebranded as PBS-D. Hi Robert, and thank you for asking this. Thoughts on TMPGEnc Authoring Works 6? DVD architect in Vegas Pro 15? Is there any mac software options? Just wondering if there is something for people who want better encoding quality and the ability to make more complex menus without the 50K price tag. Is there a mid-level authoring suite with the power of the retired Encore software or DVD studio pro? I'm sure there is still options in the high-end space and the consumer space has lots of Mickey Mouse 'drag and burn' stuff.

So, the big question is - how does one make a professional level DVD/Bluray with menus in 2022? Digging deeper, it seems many pieces of software can't legally exist because various licensing agreements are now defunct. We ended up outsourcing to a large duplication company, but had some issues getting the encode quality at the old professional standard (Cinemacraft encoder). This includes the high-end MPEG2 encoders and the authoring software itself. I discovered that all the tools I used to use for DVD authoring are now effectively extinct. I recently had a film air on PBS and they needed DVD's of the program for people to buy (Apparently no-one in their audience wants Blu-rays). I appologize for posting in the MC software forum, but I'm sure I'm not the only one in need of some insight into this.

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