ALL Posters - Please read this - important.

Question

Can I please ask that before posting in the main forums (where this message is) that you check a couple of things first:
1 - Is this the correct place to post?
See if there is a subforum that is more suitable - this will get you help & answers to problems a lot faster as this is a 'user-to-user' forum, and a lot of members have specialities that they check first. For example, a problem with, say, menus or buttons should go into the "menus & Buttons" subforum. Likewise, a problem with encoded video should also go into the Video handling & encoding subforum.
This is not the "main" forum - it is for posting questions that do not actually fit in anywhere else.
2 - Has somebody else already posted on the problem?
i Always
try running a search first - for example:
"Red Flashes"
or
"Burner not recognized"
or whatever. Duplicate posts only reduce your chances of getting assistance, plus they mess up the forums making it harder to search for answers.
Finally, I cannot emphasize strongly enough that these are
i user to user
forums, not Adobe Support forums. All members here are ordinary guys working with Encore or a related application - not Adobe tech personnel.
Sorry to bang on about this, but following these simple rules will help you all to get the assistance you need faster.

Answer 1

James,
It is my understanding that the Adobe employees, who do frequent the fora, do so on their own time, so their presence is not an "official" Adobe presence. However, they are able to offer many insights, that average "users" just might not be privy to. With very few exceptions, the posters' ties to Adobe are kept subrosa, and with good reason. There are often posters, who assume that these are true Adobe tech fora, and use them to whip Adobe into action. If they knew who the Adobe employees were, they'd be relentless and the helpful aspect of the fora would be greatly diminished.
It is comforting that there IS an Adobe presence here, but by design and definition, it is not required, as these are "user-to-user" fora.
I would like to think that the Adobe folk do take problems back to the office with them to share with the coders, the product managers, etc. Over the decades, Adobe has impressed me, a consumer, that they do care and work very hard to improve the various products for me. I know that Adobe does surveys in these fora to help them find what is most important to the greatest number of users. In these fora, they have a great asset - a bunch of users in one place with a publicly accessible forum, from which to gather data. I'd wager that a lot of beta testing is done by people, who contribute here. Again, by design, we'll probably not know who these folk are, as they will have signed a non-disclosure agreement. Besides, the things that they see might well not make it into a final release, so no sense in getting peoples' hopes up for something that might not be in the release. Most of these folk have business to do, and are giving of their spare time to test the upcoming product. They do not need people, such as me, pestering them for tidbits on the new program.
As for investment, I have my portfolio populated with companies that I think will make me money in the long run, and that are also good companines, whose policies I agree with. I try to temper my selections evenly between the two aspects.
Sorry to get so OT to Neil's post.
Hunt