Is Encore strong enough for mass producing DVD's?

Hi All,
I am using encore for my authoring needs and have just completed two big projects, 1 on DVD5 and 1 on DVD9. Everything went on to DLT quite easily, although creating check-discs for the 9 was a nightmare and i had to burn a compressed five just to see if i was in working order.
However now it has gone to plant, i am starting to panic a wee bit. Other people i know use spruce and Scenarist, but few (if any) use encore. Don't get me wrong, i think it is a fine program, just suffering first night nerves.
Any answers??
Thanks,
Dan

Roguedan.
EncoreDVD is perfectly good enough to produce commercial titles. We use it all the time, and despite the couple of niggles with DL (which I hasten to add is generally common to all applications, as the problems are all Layer Break related) I have no problems using it that I cannot either ignore completely or work through/around.
Stability? This is the stablest version yet - it gets better each release IMHO.
Cannot compare to Maestro, as I never owned that one.
Dual Layer - as long as you remebered to leave the 4-5% overhead, then you should be just fine.
If the disc is being pressed, then you
i will
be fine.
Personally, I swear by GEAR Pro Mastering Edition - it might seem expensive at $400, but once you get used to what it can do for the money, you'll wonder how you ever managed without it.
DDP images from a written disc or a project to either DLT tapes or HDD is a killer feature for me. This means I can tell Encore to create a folder and bring this over to GPME. Then I can make a DDP image to HDD, and write the DDP image to a DVD-ROM disc - this allows the use of Copy Protection measures,
i without the hassle & expense of using DLT tapes
but with exactly the same checksums being done to verify an accurate write of the crucial data.
You can also take a DLT tape & write it back to HDD. An invaluable double-check if you need to be absolutely certain beyond any doubt at all that your master is correctly written.
There's a 30 day unlimited trial at their website, so you cannot lose.

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