This http://www.adobe.com/products/premiere/features.html says Encore is now 64bit

There are various new features for Encore apart from the 64 bit support like -

Additional colors in button highlights : You can now export button highlights with 8 bit indexed colors for blu-ray and full color for webDVD

Chapter PlayList support for Blu-ray and web DVDs

DTS HD support for Blu-ray

Upper Field First support for DVDs

Additional slides in slideshow

Various performance improvement features like faster import of images,less time in saving and opening a project

Also, there are various enhancements done for webDVD as well

See the link below -

http://www.adobe.com/products/encore/features._sl_id-contentfilter_sl_ featuredisplaytypes_sl_all.html

shuchi shrivastava wrote:

 

There are various new features for Encore apart from the 64 bit support like -

Additional colors in button highlights : You can now export button highlights with 8 bit indexed colors for blu-ray and full color for webDVD

Chapter PlayList support for Blu-ray and web DVDs

DTS HD support for Blu-ray

Upper Field First support for DVDs

Additional slides in slideshow

Various performance improvement features like faster import of images,less time in saving and opening a project

 

Also, there are various enhancements done for webDVD as well

See the link below -

http://www.adobe.com/products/encore/features._sl_id-contentfilter_sl_ featuredisplaytypes_sl_all.html

i was in the pre-release program for encore, and all these updates are great.... but my beef for CS6 is still the blasted blu-ray format. adobe REALLY needs to set up a brand new app from the ground up just for blu-ray, or have a different version of encore just for blu-ray. (i would love to see cs7 with full Java capabilities!)  kick the sonic author-core to the curb if that's the problem. i could come up with some pretty complex menus mentally, but it doesnt matter cause i could never actually pull them off when theres that 2 second track gap from asset to assett. its just maddening that i can't do a simple trasitional sequence with dup menus for blu-rays. works flawlessly for DVD though? but not for blu-ray. is that a BD Spec issue that hollywood bypasses by using java? or is it just how encore itself handles the BD table of contents?

other than that, the only features that really stood out to me were the chapter play-list, DTS-MA, and background processing for HUGE assetts for encore. (no more status bar locking up the app for an hour while you import a single 40gb Blu-Ray timeline. TRULY revolutionary!)

if only the 2 second track gap could be fixed. =(

Andy Ramone wrote:

 

is that a BD Spec issue that hollywood bypasses by using java? or is it just how encore itself handles the BD table of contents?

 

if only the 2 second track gap could be fixed. =(

This is not a BD spec limitaion which Hollywood people are bypassing. Its the limitaion in En that the BD export code does not have some BD connection conditions set which can transition from one clip to other seamlessly. (This is due to En's dependency on the third party for BD export)

Shuchi and Ramesh: thanks for this information. Keep it coming!

shuchi shrivastava wrote:

Yes , Chapter playlist works for Bluray as well as webDVD in 6.0. Also Encore CS6 includes new options that provide more flexibility when you play chapter playlists:

• Sequential: Play chapter playlists sequentially.

• Random: Let the player randomly select a set of chapters to play.

• Shuffle: Let the player play all the chapters in any random order.

That's great news, thank you!

yop, the issue with seamless playing transitions between menus and so..is definitely a huge problem for me.

There is also some other changes that between CS5 and CS6. They did finaly fix the issue with flash export (loop point) and slideshow works better, but unfortunately I've found new issue with flash, when you use transitions between menus, there is problem that it actually play the same video transition for all links...

here you can see what it does

and here the structure:

http://fortunastudio.net/test/ http://fortunastudio.net/test/AuthoredContent.xml

I didnt upload slideshow video and main video co after the transition video it will just freeze.

Also it should preload the transitions from the active menu for more seamless transitions between menus...

What does "Chapter PlayList support for Blu-ray and web DVDs" mean? Thank you

Yes, chapter playlist along with three different Playback options (Blu-ray and WebDVD)

1. Sequential : Player honors the sequence of chapters you put in the chapter playlist

2. Random : Player applies its own algorithm to play the chapters in the chapter playlist randomly. All the chapters might not play.

3. Shuffle : Here also player applies its own algo to play the chapters randomly but this time all the chapters would play.

-Ramesh.

Correct.