Any special considerations before dupe?

goodtimej wrote on 6/16/2008, 10:19 PM

Hey, I have quite a bit of experience building DVDs in DVD Architect, but never with DVDs that I will be sending to a duplication house.

Is there anything different I need to do than my normal workflow. This basically consists of rendering out a widescreen MPG from Vegas then creating my front page for the DVD. Then I go in and create my markers for chapters. Then I create a scene selection menu from that. Pretty basic DVDs overall. I'm just not sure if there is some "magic button" I need to press or else something bad will happen when I send it for dupe. Thanks

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MPM wrote on 6/17/2008, 8:50 AM

Talk to whomever at the facility. They may work with what you have, they may need a master on disk or tape, they may accept an FTP upload etc., & there may be differences in what you get depending on how you delivered it... ask.

I know data is data & it should all be irrelevant, but you'll find all sorts of stories online, as apparently some facilities are married to out-of-production tape machines and antiquated technology.

lynn1102 wrote on 6/18/2008, 6:09 PM

In the DVD set up menu there is a selection for "Write Master". I've never done it so I'm not sure what it does differetly.

Lynn