Your help needed for charity website

[jloveday]

Hi Guys and Girls,

This is my first post here and i am hoping you guys can help me...

Firstly i will introduce myself, I am jloveday and I served as a British soldier for 7 years completing tours in some of the most diverse and hostile environments across the globe, i am now working as a security consulatant for the maritime industry protecting vessels from Somalian based piracy. I am currently about to start a business but i need some information, the business will donate profits to military charities and the way the business generates revenue will be through selling personalised DVDs.

I need to know where to find and purchase the following and any information on how to do so or links would be greatly appreciated.

I need a software that enables me to burn personalised videos taken from a camera/webcam and burn them onto a DVD however with the current rate of pre orders we are looking at this will be a time consuming process, so if there is a software or way of producing large quantities of these DVDs all individually personalised and a device that can burn a large amount of DVDs at one time then if anyone has any info on where to get these then it would be greatly appreciated.

Im not overly worried about cost as i wish to make this business a success and its a great business aimed towards our troops and their families.

Thanks guys in advance

regards

jloveday

[Trippedout]

hi jloveday

this site mite point you in the right direction for multi tower copy machines http://www.cdrlabs.com/ an other oldy but goody and there is plenty choice of software the guys here will help with ive got my own ideas what is realy fast and what is slow all the best

[jloveday]

Many thanks mate, the website looks like a good avenue to go down, if anyone has any ideas on software it would be greatly appreciated

Regards

Jloveday

[Trippedout]

depends on input out what kind of edit you want to do and software is avalble if you buy like panasonic video camra you get software bundeld with it strait forward edit conversion to like mpghd can be done realy fast just depends on vairabels realy like ive just converted to mpghd in under 5 mins add in edit time roughly 10 mins maybe as i said depends

[jloveday]

The way the website will work is the client will upload their own video from either their webcam or from their own camera to the website and we then burn it to DVD and send out to them. So whichever is best for this process?

Many thanks

[Trippedout]

well have a wee look at winavi all in one converter its not free but realy fast and handels lots of formats wich I suspect you will get lot of difrent formats you can try it out will leave a watter mark but will give you an idea if its worth its price and edit the files is a little harder as i dont know a clip editor that will handel lots of difrent formats mpg2cut handels as it says and will let you edit for free with a few things like you need to close and re open file between each edit and donent like aero needs to switched of in 7 but you can read about that on there web site some the guys could sugest editors for other formats cant help there all the best,. go to winavi web site lots of info there

[Moontrash]

for the burn process to do many at a time....these will work....just look for similiar models in the UK

Duplicators

Auto-Duplicators

[Cornucopia]

The way the website will work is the client will upload their own video from either their webcam or from their own camera to the website and we then burn it to DVD and send out to them. So whichever is best for this process?

Many thanks

Ok, so where is the "personalization"? (Other than the clear fact of the client providing their own material)

I'm all for charity (and yours seems a good one), but beyond dvd creation & duplication, where is the added value? Because consumers can easily come to places like this site and find apps to help them do it themselves for free, and there are plenty of competitive, inexpensive commercial sites that already provide simple "upload, create & burn" services.

Scott

[Trippedout]

"personalization"? scott I persuim would be in presentation disc art cover art logo box maybe even small add for there work on disc so on and at the end of the day pepole make up there own mind weather they want to help or not if they find it free with no frills then thats good to plenty of choice for peeps that have no money well I think that would be the difrence

[lordsmurf]

"personalization" ... would be in presentation disc art cover art logo box maybe even small add for there work on disc

Nobody cares about any of those things, when you get down to it.

Trust me here, I'd know.

Any old branded handwritten DVD is just as good as some generic inkjet template slop.