What is Authoring?
DVD offers certain functionality such as skipping to various places on the disc via elaborate menus, selecting the desired soundtrack or subtitles, playing back the director’s cut or the edited version, or looking at out takes and trailers for the movie. In the authoring process, all the various audio and video elements, still pictures, menus and subtitles must be assembled along with navigation commands to create the finished disc image that ends up on the actual DVD itself. Depending on the complexity of the title, this process can take from hours to days, even weeks to complete and test.
Authoring is the process of collecting audio, video, menus, subtitles, etc into an interactive branching structure that will eventually become a playable DVD. You need DVD authoring software to make a playable DVD. There are several companies that develop this software, including Sonic Solutions, Apple, Ulead, Pinnacle, and more.
Once all of your elements are encoded and in the proper format the project moves into the authoring stage. Here we are generally working off a plan we have developed with you and laying out all of the elements to create your disc master. We’ll test the disc here and send you a copy for review. Once everything is tested and approved we can start duplicating.
