Burn folder - dmg or zip?

Is there an archiving program that can take the aliases in a burn folder, resolve them, and create a dmg or zip archive?

It appears that DMG Master:
http://www.pomola.com/products_dmgmaster/dmgmaster.html
comes the closest to what I want. While it doesn't use the aliases in Burn Folders, it basically does the same thing by allowing the equivalent of Burn Folder contents to be stored as "sets" in individual backup settings documents. Anytime you double-click on one of these sets documents, you create a fresh backup dmg, which the program makes easy to time-stamp.
Has options from encryption and compression. Costs $15 for single user license.

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Step 1
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Pardon me for jumping in, but in my experience deleting an alias from a burn folder (or elsewhere) leaves the original intact. I don't know why deleting the alias files takes so long on your system - on mine, a mid-2011 mini with 8GB RAM running 10.7.5, it happens pretty immediately. I didn't initially like the Burn Folder concept, but since I've gotten used to it, it's OK - although it seems to add some unnecesary complexity if I want, for example, to move some (but not all) of the files in a folder onto a CD/DVD.
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