Emergency Can anyone recommend a Solid authoring program?

Can anyone recommend a Solid authoring program other than Encore? I have just started using Encore CS3 and have run into a lot of bugs. I have used Sonic in the past and found it pretty reliable but have not been shopping around for awhile.
It needs to be able to burn DVD and Blu-ray discs.
Thank you!!!

For DVD authoring, we use Scenarist. It's the first authoring system we used that didn't cause us to miss project deadlines due to peculiar and cryptic errors, or sluggish UI. I can work in Scenarist as fast as I can move the mouse and type on the keyboard. No waiting. We tried numerous other DVD authoring apps from 2001 - 2003 and none of them were reliable enough for commercial production work, plus, discs made with the consumer programs frequently failed to play or function properly on the majority of available DVD players. When we switched to authoring in Scenarist, all problems stopped. You take a 2 week course at Sonic to learn how to use the system and once you grasp how it works, there's nothing else like it.
Presently, there isn't a market for Blu-ray that justifies Scenarist BDMV, so we're stuck dabbling with Encore, which is like trying to swim in rubber glue. Maybe if the UI were 50X faster than it is now, it would be tolerable to work in, but the present version makes you wait for every mouse click. Move to a different point on the timeline and you could be waiting five or more minutes. Absurd. No such delays with Scenarist--I can navigate around instantly, drop in chapter markers, add multiple angles, do mathematical operators using the GPRMs to control program flow and menu behaviors.. the list is enormous.
Encore is finicky, won't work on some systems, requires patches and updates to the OS and various parts of the OS subsystem in order to fix several unknown errors, and is just glacially-slow. I have a hunch they make it that way as part of their agreement with Sonic to license some Sonic technology in Encore, otherwise, why would a disc authoring facility spend 125X the price of Encore to author Blu-ray? Crippling the Encore program so it's too slow to be used by anyone in a production environment would make sense, if my hunch is correct. Product segmentation, is what it's called. You cripple the low end product so as not to impinge on the sales of the high end product.

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