Fast Way to Burn DVD movies?

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AdventMediaProductions

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So I am in Las Vegas right now and I went to a hypnotist show at one of the casinos here. The show itself was pretty interesting but what intrigued me the most was the fact that they had DVD copies of the whole show available right after the show.

I was wondering if there is a fast way to burn DVD's like that? Obviously they use some kind of DVD copier which is probably capable of burning dozens of DVD's at a time. From my research though, most of those DVD copiers work using some kind of disc image or by simply copying a master DVD.

This means that the slowest part in the whole DVD duplication process is probably making the master DVD itself Is there a quick way to burn say an hour and a half show in some kind of quicktime format on to a dvd movie? Obviously we Mac users have iDVD, DVD studio Pro, Compressor, etc. While these tools all work great they do seem to take at least half an hour to burn most DVD's.

Does anyone know how the show was able to burn DVD's so quickly? I am honestly quite interested in how they were able to accomplish that.
 
Probably recorded live direct to disc, finalise disc the instant the curtain comes down (1-2 minutes), then mass-duplicate before the audience even hits the merchandise stand (2-4 minutes depending on burner & length of show)
 
If you are a mac user you can use the bootcamp... in windows we have EDIUS, for me is realy faster, more faster than vegas. If i have a 1 hour video, in 1:15 hour i have a DVD ready!. My source is XDCAM EX and i can edit in native way. I have a 1.8mhz laptop with 2gb ram, core2duo, i think if you have a better machine will be more faster. I don´t know if EDIUS support DVD multi copy.
 
I think I might be on to something.

I just found this program called Burn which is essentially a more stripped down (and hopefully faster) version of the options provided by Apple. Basically you can drag and drop a movie file and I think it will make a DVD movie (albeit without all of the bells and whistles) but hopefully it will be able to cut down on the encoding time and whatnot. I haven't had a chance to try it out yet since I am sitting here at an airport but that could be a solution for a quicker DVD turnaround.

Though I do agree that they probably used a direct to disc recording.
 
I was in a live production last year that did the same thing. I can tell you, the production quality was craptastically bad. The fact that there is no possibility of editing, checking the video quality or even quality-controlling the burns means it will most-likely suck, as did the video of the performance that we did that year. We did the same show again this past Christmas, but the folks in-charge decided to do things right with a proper three-camera shoot, a decent sound mix, a week or two in the editing studio, and a non-rush job on the DVD manufacture.

While folks last year that bit hook, line and sinker into the whole "Walk away with a DVD tonight!" concept did indeed get to do that, I'm betting none of those folks were willing to part with any hard-earned cash to make another purchase this year. Those that _did_ buy a DVD this year had to fill-out an order form and wait a few weeks, of course, but were much more pleased with the final result (I know my band and I, and all of the folks in the production were, anyway).

GJ
 
Production can happen in real time. It happens all the time. Think News, Sports, Talk Shows. etc. Use a high quality MPEG-2 capture card, print DVD's and boxes ahead of time and crank out the Discs ASAP after fade to black. If you want quality you need real Pros not just capable shooters and your TD has to be spot on.
 
In a nutshell, you could switch the show live to a DVD recorder, then use that master as the source in a DVD duplicator tower. As kgimedia says, you would really want to make sure that you've got a good, experienced crew doing this. And as Greg says there's no time for quick fixes, so it is what it is.
 
Thanks for all of the input guys. Yeah it seems like an interesting idea to consider if one is doing relatively simple shoots or if the client just wants their media as fast as possible without caring too much for the quality of it.
 
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