TOSHIBA DVD ROADSHOW October 1999

DVDTECH has authored a series of independent DVD-Video releases, but is now focussing on the corporate market.

A recent project provided the company, newly located in North Sydney, with the chance to produce an Enhanced DVD for Toshiba Australia that was the centrepiece of a technology roadshow to Australian and New Zealand capital cities.

A total of 1000 discs were provided to roadshow attendees. The disc contained all the video and slides and stills for the presentation, 1 .6GB of DVD-Video data, alongside a database of Toshiba device drivers, utilities, free software applications, and the entire Toshiba Web site, representing another 1 GB of DVD-ROM data.

Jeff Sunderland of DVDTECH, said, “You would have needed two CDs if the title was handed out on CDROM. This data essentially travelled free off the back of the DVD-Video data.”

DVDTECH runs two DVD authoring suites using Daikin Scenarist on NT with Dolby Digital encoding for audio, Minerva Compressionist for video MPEG-2 encoding and a Mac-based 2D graphics department. Moving menu content is generaly sent outside to a specialist editing company, although simple jobs can be performed in Premiere.