DVD Premastering: A Facility's Perspective

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 that greatly influence the quality of the DVD-Video product.

Print ISSN

0036-1682

Published

1997-09

Content type

Information

DOI

10.5594/J04535