Professional DVD Authoring Question

So anybody know what kind of programs they use to author DVD's profesionally? Like the ones you actually go out and buy?

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Medium size Authoring facilities uses Scenarist for their authoring because with it you have full control over the DVD. Also the programming (Pre-Post-Cell commands, jumps etc.) is more clean. Warner and Sony use their own authoring products that is a mixture of hardware/software and are not sold to public. The only "available" system that allow the full DVD specs.(including seamless branching) is a Panasonic/Matsushita system (Scenarist doesn't support seamless branching) but is "out of business" for a lot of people since it cost near 180.000 $

I've seen both "SpruceUp"/"Spruce Technologies" and "Gear" indicated to be the authoring software on commercial DVDs...

Spruce products (like DVDMaestro) are discontinued products but they're also quite used nowadays but they aren't a "low level" authoring programs. I don't think Gear makes authoring software. I think Gear makes premastering softwares (like Gear Pro Mastering) that are useful to make DLTs from a DVD-9 compiled project if the authoring program doesn't have that feature. So probably the "Gear" label is written in the DVD rather than the authoring program that compiled the project.

At 180 000$, you can buy the new version of Scenarist, 2 versions HD DVD version (Scenarist HD) and BluRay version (Scenarist BD) with Cinevision (Scenarist Cinevision encoder), with a HDCam Player (only player) and with Declink HD PCI card.... Golgot13

So these are the programs they use to make all the fancy menus and what not too, right? I'll stick with using the simple stuff I can do in Ulead DVD MovieFactory 5, haha.

So Adobe Encore isn't professional? I always thought it was the best. Then again, I haven't gotten into the whole DVD authoring side of the DVD.