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1. Re: Encore Autosave 5.5 & 6, where are you hiding???
Stan Jones Aug 6, 2014 12:00 PM (in response to Photo_1985)Please, someone tell me I am all wet and that there are ways to recover from a crash in Encore. Please let me be wrong.
Yes, all the times I've been wrong, it isn't often that I beg to be wrong. This would be one of those times. But alas, you ARE NOT wrong.
Not only does Encore not have an autosave, it has no "save a copy." The best you can do is a "save as," leaving a trail of copies with you current version being the last iteration. and, of course, the worst part of that one is that you have to remember to use it. I'll bet you didn't!
Remember, from here on out, take the Encore Save As Pledge: I will do a "save as" [Repeat: I will do a "save as"] after every significant step [Repeat: after every significant step] in my Encore projects [Repeat: in my Encore projects].
But, you ask for how to recover.
1) Start the project over. Encore is not robust (in almost any way), and project with the slightest weakness or corruption is unlikely to recover. And in the world of disk media where 99 players played your disk just fine and the next 10 won't, you have to always be maximizing the quality of the output.
2) Menus are robust. Just find the last version from the old Encore folder structure and "import as menu." True, none of the navigation is there, but if you've customized the menu from within Encore (including using "edit in photoshop" from within Encore), your latest version is fine.
3) If you transcoded your assets outside of Encore before importing them, they are still fine. Just "import as timeline," add end actions etc. If you transcoded after your asset was in Encore, the transcode files are in the old encore folder structure. You can use them as the assets and "import as timeline" for them.
4) Redo all that other stuff: adding chapter markers if they didn't import; doing navigation, creating playlists etc etc.5) Did I mention that should do a "save as" after every step? And make sure it is a new name every time?
I feel your pain. And now that Encore is end of life, there is no hope for any better.
I suspect that Adobe's problem with making a simple autosave was, as so many problems with Encore, a consequence of the sonic authorcore. Move any part of the encore project file or folders, and it was trash. The only autosave for Encore would be a full file and folders copy. Quickly massive size. Most (all?) other Adobe autosaves are single file copies.
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2. Re: Encore Autosave 5.5 & 6, where are you hiding???
Photo_1985 Aug 6, 2014 12:34 PM (in response to Stan Jones)Stan, thank you very much. I understand why autosave is not very workable.
Save As will chew up lots of hard drive because it seems to copy the
transcode again which is ok, but gets rather big if you are talking about
20 save as or more.
I have not had any other issues with Encore other than the two I wrote
about here. But I take the pledge:
I, Tom Benson, take you Adobe, to be my DVD Authoring Program, to use, for
better or for worse, in function or in malfunction, to Save and Save As,
from this day forward, until obsolescence do us part.
Hope you don't mind if I skip the Honeymoon
Thanks again Stan,
Tom
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3. Re: Encore Autosave 5.5 & 6, where are you hiding???
Stan Jones Aug 6, 2014 1:03 PM (in response to Photo_1985)Yeah; with Encore, the Honeymoon doesn't last....


