DVD & Blu-Ray Disc Authoring

Product finishing

- Creative Custom menu design and navigation
- Creation of image masters for replication
- Burn, Print and Package Service
- Live Online updates and peview of projects as they unfold

Transfer to disc

- Simple fast high quality transfer from any format to DVD.
- Simple fast high quality transfer from HD formats to Blu-Ray disc.
- Up, Down and Cross conversion of SD and HD source video.
- Archive Film and VHS video material to library style DVD or Blu ray discs.

Technical notes:

a. High quality video encoding for SD DVD (mpeg2) and HD Blu ray (mpeg2HD, h.264 AVC)
b. Supported formats: AVI, MOV, MXF, Uncompressed, Apple ProRes, Animation, DVCPROHD/50/25, DV50/25,  MPEG2, MPEG4AVC, AVCHD, JPEG2000, PNG, TGA, BMP, DV/DVCAM, P2, SXS, Film.
c. Supported media: Tape, Hard Disc, Flash Disc, P2Cards, SXS cards, Blu ray Disc, DVD Disc, Film Reels.

The Great New Zealand Fishing Scandal

Is a film by respected film maker Guye Henderson on the state of the New Zealand fishing industry. We were asked to author the film for DVD. Our work included the encoding of the final movie to mpeg2, the menu design, the artwork for disc face and packaging, along with duplication, assembly and delivery of the final product.

OURS DVD

Is a documentary style educational video for our young ones. It was produced, filmed and edited by up and coming film maker Emma Heke of RED HEKE Productions. Emma wanted the DVD to be easy to use for children, parents and teachers, offering lots of options for easy access to play all, individual chapters and groups of chapters. Our work included the menu navigation, the encoding of the finished movie to mpeg2, the final product was a DDP Image for bulk replication which included copy protection.

Goodvibes 2009

A DVD record of the annual Godvibes boogie held by Skydive Abel Tasman. Our work included motion menu and intro's created in After FX, editing and encoding to mpeg2, artwork for disc face along with duplication and delivery.

Disc Face Sample Artwork