The process of creating a DVD-V master, or authoring, incorporates the following basic steps:

Project Planning

• Flowchart to describe how the various elements of the project work together, and bit-budget decisions.

Asset Acquisition

• Gathering of the assets or source materials to be used, i.e. edited video, stereo and/or multichannel audio, and menu elements.  Source material should be reviewed and documented in detail.
  

Encoding

• Source material must be encoded into DVD-compliant form.  This is typically the most time-consuming part of any DVD project.  Encoded materials are quality-checked in real-time.

Navigation

•   A set of navigational instructions are necessary for the end-user to control viewing of the completed production.

Imaging

• The encoded assets, along with the navigational info, are multiplexed into a DVD-compliant stream.  This 'stream' is played and checked for proper operation.

Ref Disc & QC

• A playable, high-quality authoring DVD-R is 'burned' with the disc image, and submitted to the client for approval.

Delivery Master

• Following client approval, a delivery master is generated.  All delivery masters are evaluated for sonic and/or data errors. 

All DVD-Video processes are performed and verified in-house, using Sonic Creator and Interactual Image Builder 2.0, and checked on a variety of platforms.  More elaborate out-of-house verification can be provided if requested.