Need some advice on going from editing to DVD in post.

[Angelshare1]

I have my movie edited. I'm having some synching issues in Premiere which I understand I may need a professional's help with. (I've kind of exhausted my google-fu and message boarding on the subject.) Anyways, I found a post house in town that offered DVD replicaiton and encoding the movie as well as authoring. (The movie is 1 hr, 57 min.)

Anything I should be aware of? They quoted me around $500-$1000 for encoding (they haven't seen the files yet, more like a ballpark quote over the phone). I was going to have them author it as well as far as putting menu items on the DVD. I was looking for pretty basic (play, chapters, trailer). Also they are going to burn me 1000 copies for around $1 a piece.

Is there anything I need to lookout for? I know I could probably get a better price somewhere else but I'd rather work with someone local and pay a bit more since it's my first time doing a feature.

Do they typcially give me a master disc that I can take to a different production house? Would they make it so it's difficult for the DVD to be replicated either by an end user or other DVD replicator? (ie, if I need more copies do I have to go back to them?) Also if I have royalty free music am I allowed to have copy protection on the disc? I heard under these creative common licenses that you are not allowed to restrict the copying of the work and putting a protection on a movie with this kind of music would violate the licence.

Thanks for any answers you guys can offer. This board has really been a huge help in getting a lowly restaurant accountant to this point in the process.:thumbsup:

 

[MichaelP]

Make sure you are clear on replication versus duplication. Replication uses a glass master which is quite expensive. Duplication sound more like price quote you are getting. Duplication is fine these days as players and such are much more resiliant to all the different DVD disc types that exist when compared to the beginning of the DVD era. A$1 a disc is a pretty good price. Is that for a printed label disc, disc case, cover art, 1 color, 2 color, 4 color, etc?

Michael

 

[Angelshare1]

Make sure you are clear on replication versus duplication. Replication uses a glass master which is quite expensive. Duplication sound more like price quote you are getting. Duplication is fine these days as players and such are much more resiliant to all the different DVD disc types that exist when compared to the beginning of the DVD era. A$1 a disc is a pretty good price. Is that for a printed label disc, disc case, cover art, 1 color, 2 color, 4 color, etc?

Michael

Sorry I'm not up on the lingo! Didn't realize there's a difference. I'll make sure to tell them Duplication. And yes its for the cover, case, shrinkwrap, 4 color, ect.

 

[Steve House]

...Also if I have royalty free music am I allowed to have copy protection on the disc? I heard under these creative common licenses that you are not allowed to restrict the copying of the work and putting a protection on a movie with this kind of music would violate the licence.
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Why go by what you've 'heard'? The license is online at the Creative Commons website, go there, read, and find out what it really says instead of relying on what someone tells you it says. By the way, "royalty free" and "creative commons" are not necessarily the same thing. I believe all creative commons licenses are royalty free but there is a vast amount of royalty free material available from a varierty of sources other than creative commons and they'll each have their own provisions. 'Royalty Free' means the music is free of on-going royalty payments that would otherwise be due for each performance, not that it is free to use without any charges at all. Also, if you're going to be selling these DVDs or have charged a fee to produce the program for a client, my understanding is the Creative Commons licenses do not apply and you need to obtain separate permissions ... according to their website, a Creative Commons license only applies to use of the material in non-commercial projects.

 

[capt chuck]

One other difference between replication and duplication is that replication can have that copy protection that you mentioned. I don't think copy protection is possible with duplication.