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CONTRIBUTORS
Matt Ottewill
Don Kallenbach
Ben Henderson
Paul Hazel

ARTICLES
Computing
Multimedia
Digital video
DVD authoring

DTP & Images
Web site building
Research articles
Music industry
Finding work

Sound theory
Digital audio
Sound recording
Sound synthesis
MIDI sequencing

Standards & formats

PAL & NTSC What are they & which should you use?

TV & film aspect ratios 4:3, 16:9, 2.35:1 etc, what's it all about?

THE DVD SPECIFICATION

DVD physical & data formats Explains physical and data formats, disc capacities, drive types

DVD video disc elements
What can they contain

DVD Region codes What are they, what are they for

DVD studio Pro tip

Writing a disc directly from DVD Studi Pro will take considerably longer than if you use Toast to write the files previously prepared by DVD Studio Pro ("video_ts" folder) .

DVD production processes

Workflow A n overview of the tasks involved in creating a DVD-video disc

DVD Video

VIDEO PRODUCTION

Click here for resources on DV Video production

ENCODING (COMPRESSING) VIDEO FOR DVD

Encoding video for DVD About DVD video compression options

DVD audio

AUDIO RECORDING

Click here for resources on Audio recording

ENCODING (COMPRESSING) AUDIO FOR DVD

Encoding audio for DVD About DVD audio formats & compression options

Creating still images for DV & DVD

Creating still images for DV & DVD Click here for essential technical advice in creating images that will look great on your TV screen.

PHOTOSHOP TEMPLATES

Click here to download a Photoshop template for PAL (440Kb)

Click here to download a Photoshop template for NTCS (420Kb)

Click here for general image editing and Photoshop advice.

DVD Studio Pro help

DVD Studio Pro / Photoshop layer menu example template (2.4Mb)

Extracting clips from DVDs (PC& Mac)

Mac The Ripper Free DVD rip software
PC advice / tools Ripping tools for PC users
www.dvdxdv.com Mac DVD ripping program
Mac advice / tools Ripping tools for Mac users