DVD AUTHORING

I Need Media offer a full DVD Authoring service.
Our qualified team of experts can take your foootage
and create a fully authored DVD which is then sent to our
factory where we will replicate your finished DVD product.
A barcode service is available as well as Macrovision
and CSS Encryption Service.


Footage Masters We Accept
VHS - Mini DV Tape - Betacam SP - Hi8 - Digi-Beta
DVD Video - DV - DVCPRO - DVCAM - SVHS and Umatic.

We also accept MPEG1 - MPEG2 - AVI - MOV digital files.

Pricing is dependant on the format supplied.
The ideal formats (where encoding charges are waved) are:
1 (or more) DVD Movie File(s) (.m2v) (.mpv)
1 (or more) DVD Audio File(s) (.ac3) (.wav) (.mpa)


Menus
Menus are navigational pages on a dvd and can contain navigational buttons or simply be used for displaying information. We can produce animated menus where necessary. We require the film footage (normally 10 - 20 seconds) clip to produce the menu(s) loop. (we can create animated menus from a section(s) of your main film on request)

Chapter Points
Chapter points can be inserted into your dvd if required. These points break up the dvd into "sections" allowing the user to" jump" to any part of the main movie from a chapter menu containing button links. We can insert chapter points at regular intervals throughout your movie. We can insert chapter points by your own locations.

Languages
Adding extra spoken languages to the dvd requires audio files of the additional languages. These files need to incorporate any background music. They also need to be the same length as the original language (unless new film footage for that particular language is supplied) and must be formatted as 48kHz 16 bit stereo.

Audio
We can convert your audio files from their current format to the necessary format but we cannot change the length of the file. We require the audio files in one of the following audio formats: CD Audio - WAV - MP3 - AC3. We will add an option to choose the relevant LANGUAGE from the opening menu.

Subtitling
We can translate your subtitles into most languages.
If you have subtitles already translated we accept the following formats:
.SUB .SRT .SSA .SON .SST


DVD's can be encoded with an option which specifies which regions in the world the discs can be played.
Here is a list of the major zones.
Zone 1 United States of America, Canada
Zone 2 Europe, including France, Greece, Turkey, Egypt, Arabia, Japan and South Africa
Zone 3 Korea, Thailand, Vietnam, Borneo and Indonesia
Zone 4 Australia and New Zealand, Mexico, the Caribbean, and South America
Zone 5 India, Africa, Russia and former USSR countries
Zone 6 Peoples Republic of China