I've been running into a lot of bugs in the DVD authoring package (Adobe Encore) as I add subtitles to the movie. Now, today, I cannot even open my project anymore, due to known bugs in their crappy subtitle support.

Adobe says the only solution to the bug is to upgrade to 1.5. Fine. But what pisses me off is that they refuse to discount the price of the upgrade. This isn't merely a new-feature upgrade for me - I'm upgrading because of a critical flaw in their product which has wasted hours of work and stopped me dead in my tracks.

Overall I think Adobe products are good, but if you aren't yet locked into any of them, consider this before you invest any amount of money or time in them.

The upgrade will arrive in a few days at which point I'll have to rebuild the DVD again from scratch. Until then, expect no progress.

I've started on the subtitles, and made it about 4.5 minutes into the movie. Sadly I also discovered that there was a stretch where the audio didn't match the video, so I had to fix that. This means I'll have to spend a few hours rerendering the DVD again later.