Project Planning

Producing a DVD-Audio consists of the following steps:

Planning the project

• Gathering the assets - audio, video stills etc.
  
• Encoding the assets - making sure they conform to the specification
  
• Authoring - adding navigation and interactivity
  
• Multiplexing - making the project readable by the player
  
• Burning to DLT or authoring medium
  
• Testing
  

Planning the project - Think about what you want to do. If you are not very familiar with DVD titles go out and buy some and see what other people are doing and use that as a basis for your project. Plan the structure of your project and how you want it to work in terms of interactivity and navigation. We offer consultation services for this stage.

Gathering the assets - this means collecting all the materials you decided to use in the planning stage. It may involve shooting video or recording music - or using material you already have. If your project includes menus you will need to create them in photoshop. We can help you develop all these kinds of content if you wish.

Encoding the assets - Any video or still assets have to be encoded in the appropriate format. For the audio encoding discussion, please see the Data Compression section of this site.

Multiplexing and Burning - Your project is converted to a form that is readable by the player and burned to a disc or DLT tape.

Testing - very important last step before manufacturing. The disc should be tested on as many different types of players and computers as possible.