DVD-Lab and pressing DVD's...

[Red96TA]

I've been using dvd-lab with pretty good sucess for about a year now. Yesterday, a client wanted to not only enlist my services to film an instructional dvd, but he wants to go to the expense of having the disk pressed for resale. I've seen some posts that say that dvd-lab isn't 100% dvd compliant (of which I don't know the specifics of) but haven't had any personal experience with disks failing because of authoring anomolies. The question I have is this: If I have dvd's pressed using a disk authored in dvd-lab, will I run into problems? I would hate to plunk down $1800 to have 500 disks pressed and find out that they don't work the way I want them to.

TIA.

[guns1inger]

There are a number of people who use DVD Lab / Pro commercially, and to create masters for pressing. Outside of Maestro or Scenarist, I doubt any package could guarrantee 100% compliance every time.

The bigger issue you may have is if your pressing service requires the master on DAT. I believe only the Pro version supports this. Some services will take a DVD-R as a master - so check with them to see what they require.

[trock]

I've never had any problems sending my DVD masters done in DVD-Lab or DVD-Lab Pro to a pressing plant. I send them a DVD-R with AC3 audio burned at 2x on Taiyo Yudens.

[Hockey Man]

Sometimes my DVDs freeze on one of my DVD players when I make a DVD using DVD-lab Pro (latest version) but when I use DVD Architect 2 it plays just fine. And just so you know I used the same files on both programs.

[freestyler]

Outside of Maestro or Scenarist, I doubt any package could guarrantee 100% compliance every time.

The bigger issue you may have is if your pressing service requires the master on DAT. I believe only the Pro version supports this. Some services will take a DVD-R as a master - so check with them to see what they require.

Compliance also depends on complexity as well. If it's a simple title that isn't manipulating a bunch of variables, there are less things that can go wrong with it.

Replication facilities can master from DLT-III and DLT IV tapes. Many take DVD-Rs for single layer titles.

Is your title single layer, Red?

[guns1inger]

Damn - DLT, not DAT. I't didn't feel right when I typed it either.

[Tearren]

$1,800 and 500 disks...

Could you just make the master and have one pressed disk made as a sample? I believe at Wolfcamera you can send video off to be put on a pressed DVD disk.

Tearren

[Sillyname]

The bigger issue you may have is if your pressing service requires the master on DAT. I believe only the Pro version supports this. Some services will take a DVD-R as a master - so check with them to see what they require.

It's DLT but there really is nothing to making a DLT to handoff for pressing. You just copy over your DVD folders to a tape and hand it to whoever. Duplication houses only prefer DLT because it isn't as finicky as ink in DVDR media.

So even though, a DVD Authoring program does not support transfer to DLT, all you have to do is copy it over.

[guns1inger]

No, but if it's for dual layer, it needs to support creating the two seperate images required by the pressing plant.

[Red96TA]

freestyler.
I'm shooting for a dvd-5. I suppose I could master it to a dvd+rdl, but I'm going to keep the instruction to just over an hour.

Tearren.
$1800 for 500 disks is pretty cheap. Consider that the wholesale price for the disks will be about $10ea ($3200 potential profit). Additionally, some disks will be sold directly from the clients website at $25ea ($10700 potential profit)....makes that $1800 look like a sweet deal, eh?

[Tearren]

Red96TA wrote:

Tearren.
$1800 for 500 disks is pretty cheap. Consider that the wholesale price for the disks will be about $10ea ($3200 potential profit). Additionally, some disks will be sold directly from the clients website at $25ea ($10700 potential profit)....makes that $1800 look like a sweet deal, eh?

Very sweet indeed.

I was just saying, to me, $1,800 would be a huge commitment for something I wasn't sure would work. So, I just suggested making a 'test' disk before doing the whole run.

[Bodyslide]

Here's a quote I got for an upcoming project. For Pressed DVD's.

https://www.videohelp.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=250505