DVD Premastering: A Facility's Perspective

Digital Versatile Disk Video (DVD-Video) is a revolutionary, new consumer video system. The expected demand for DVD programming represents a huge opportunity for the studios and content producers to profit from the sale of movies rereleased in this new format. Due to the richness and complexity of features and the image and sound quality of the format, content producers will need to work closely with DVD authoring facilities in the mastering of their movies to this new high-quality medium. From the facility's perspective, there are many steps involved in the DVD-Video authoring process. This paper will focus on the critical steps of element preparation, telecine transfer, video preprocessing, and compression which greatly influence the quality of the DVD-Video product.

Published

1996-10

Content type

Original Research

DOI

10.5594/M00132

ISBN

978-1-61482-925-6