What is DVD authoring?
DVD authoring means that we edit your production into a movie event customized for you. We create a custom menu, navigation buttons, moving menus and other effects. We build chapters for easy navigation, design custom transistions and graphic effects. You just tell us what you want and we will make it happen.
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.
– DVD authoring is the process by which DVD videos are created that can be played on most standard home or computer DVD players. The process requires special video formatting not commonly found among lower-end software packages. The end result can include a host of video clips, interactive menus and submenus, animated transition screens, and a variety of other special features. See our page on DVD authoring for more details and how it can be used as a powerful advertising tool.
DVD authoring is the process of adding graphics and interactive content to an audiovisual DVD. This might include an opening logo, main menu page, index, or scene selection. It can also incorporate audio options such as two-channel stereo or 5-channel surround sound, multiple video formats, and other features. DVD authoring is usually only used on audiovisual DVDs and not on music disks. Because of the high cost of DVD authoring tools, they were originally used by industry professionals only, but have since been made affordable to the public. The market for DVD authoring tools is expected to grow rapidly as people realize the vast potential for DVDs. An unauthored DVD is a linear video. Presentations, digital video, photography, or film is committed to the DVD, but it is not formatted to be interactive. The viewer must watch the content in a linear fashion from start to finish, or use directional play buttons to move forward or backward through content. Though linear viewing might be f
DVD authoring is the term used to describe the entire DVD pre-mastering process – including DVD encoding and the creation of DVD navigation. Dub-It DVD Authoring involves the assembly and layout of all of the various DVD elements, i.e., DVD graphics, DVD navigation and subtitles, menu pages, interactive DVD functions and other customized options. By choosing Dub-It’s Authoring Department you are ensuring high-quality DVD encoding of your audio and video segments and an appealing, interactive DVD experience.
