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Ars Technica reviews Adobe Encore CS3

News Type: Event — Seeded on Wed Jan 30, 2008 8:25 AM EST
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Blu-ray appears poised to win the HD format wars, and now that Blu-ray writers have matured to a still-pokey 4x speed and are dropping in price, more people are looking seriously at software to make some shiny new HD home movies. While there are some high-end options for Windows (Sony's Blu-print and Sonic Scenarist come to mind), we're going to look at Adobe's Encore CS3, the first dual-platform app aimed at professionals and prosumers (and its integration with Adobe's suite of video apps is a big draw).

In this review, I'm approaching the product from the perspective of the HD hobbyist who just wants to get a Blu-ray disc of his vacation to play on his PS3 and make his friends jealous in the process. While I have a decent handle on After Effects and Final Cut, I won't be doing any BD-Java craziness or complex scripting, which is just as well, since Encore doesn't support either one, nor does it support authoring HD DVD.

Why are we reviewing a product that has been out for while now and is already at version *.0.2? For one thing, Encore CS3 made a rather quiet debut on the Mac; second, its Blu-ray features were rarely covered in much detail by other reviewers. Then, Leopard came out, and we learned that Encore CS3 wasn't fully compatible with OS X 10.5, which meant waiting for the 3.0.2 update (or else the review would have been instantly dated).

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Michael Sautter

I don't use Encore but Ars Technica reviews are usually good.

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