From what I've read on here, it sounds like some of you guys sell DVD's to people. I was wondering if you guys happen to use Sony DVD Architect. I'm considering purchasing Sony Vegas Pro 13 along with DVD Architect 6. I've been meaning to look into making more professional DVD's/Blu-ray's to sell and for personal use. I was just wondering if DVD Architect holds up to Professional-quality store bought kinda DVD's/Blu-Ray... another words, I was wondering if it helped to produce sell-able media.
Then there's also the issue of good discs. What kind of DVD/Blu-ray discs do you guys use? I'm guessing duel-layered discs of some sort.
In 2006 I transferred all my family's old VHS home videos onto DVD's. I thought I was doing a good service, but I was using a generic DVD burning program and cheap low-quality discs from Wal-Mart. 9 years later, and the original VHS tapes play better than those stupid DVD's. Heck, they never worked all that well in the first place. On some DVD players they wouldn't play hardly at all. I had also put these cheap stick-on paper labels on the discs, which may very well have made play-back all the more difficult. They would peel off and were just annoying.
So good quality/compatible discs would be nice... it'd be great if they were multi-regional as well.
Back then I was working under the impression that VHS tapes would disintegrate eventually, and that DVD's would last practically forever... I even thought that about Memorex lol. I heard years later that the more cheap discs have a chemical in them that would corrode over time. Getting a little off topic here, but I've heard alot of bad things regarding optical media and back-up. I've heard optical media doesn't have much longevity. Does this also apply for store-bought DVD's/Blu-ray's?
I've heard that companies like Apple have deemed optical media dead. I'm kinda just now gravitating over to Blu-ray, so that's kinda disappointing to hear. I hate how "in the air" everything is getting. I want to actually physically have and hold my movies, games, music and books. Christmas wouldn't have been near as neat for me as a kid in the 90's if my present was my Mom downloading a game I wanted onto my I-Pad lol.
This dude at the video store in my town (one of the few left on the planet) told me that the technology of course exists to put movies on little flash-drives and sell them, but he said that the tech for discs is so much cheaper. He said they could make discs for practically pennies. I'm guessing that it's faster as well... not to mention a little more aesthetically pleasing.
Anyway, aside from good quality discs, I'd like some form or labeling the discs (aside from crappy paper labels or writing on them with a sharpie). I'd like to do some kind of pro-looking printing on the discs. I've noticed that a lot of store-bought DVD's/Blu-Rays don't have pictures on the discs anymore. It's usually pretty basic, with simply the title, run-time etc...
So yeah, any help/info would be greatly appreciated.
Then there's also the issue of good discs. What kind of DVD/Blu-ray discs do you guys use? I'm guessing duel-layered discs of some sort.
In 2006 I transferred all my family's old VHS home videos onto DVD's. I thought I was doing a good service, but I was using a generic DVD burning program and cheap low-quality discs from Wal-Mart. 9 years later, and the original VHS tapes play better than those stupid DVD's. Heck, they never worked all that well in the first place. On some DVD players they wouldn't play hardly at all. I had also put these cheap stick-on paper labels on the discs, which may very well have made play-back all the more difficult. They would peel off and were just annoying.
So good quality/compatible discs would be nice... it'd be great if they were multi-regional as well.
Back then I was working under the impression that VHS tapes would disintegrate eventually, and that DVD's would last practically forever... I even thought that about Memorex lol. I heard years later that the more cheap discs have a chemical in them that would corrode over time. Getting a little off topic here, but I've heard alot of bad things regarding optical media and back-up. I've heard optical media doesn't have much longevity. Does this also apply for store-bought DVD's/Blu-ray's?
I've heard that companies like Apple have deemed optical media dead. I'm kinda just now gravitating over to Blu-ray, so that's kinda disappointing to hear. I hate how "in the air" everything is getting. I want to actually physically have and hold my movies, games, music and books. Christmas wouldn't have been near as neat for me as a kid in the 90's if my present was my Mom downloading a game I wanted onto my I-Pad lol.
This dude at the video store in my town (one of the few left on the planet) told me that the technology of course exists to put movies on little flash-drives and sell them, but he said that the tech for discs is so much cheaper. He said they could make discs for practically pennies. I'm guessing that it's faster as well... not to mention a little more aesthetically pleasing.
Anyway, aside from good quality discs, I'd like some form or labeling the discs (aside from crappy paper labels or writing on them with a sharpie). I'd like to do some kind of pro-looking printing on the discs. I've noticed that a lot of store-bought DVD's/Blu-Rays don't have pictures on the discs anymore. It's usually pretty basic, with simply the title, run-time etc...
So yeah, any help/info would be greatly appreciated.