DVD physical & data formats Explains physical and data formats, disc capacities, drive types
DVD Region codes What are they, what are they for
Creating text & still images for DV & DVD Click here for essential technical advice in creating images that will look great on your TV screen.
Click here to download a Photoshop template for PAL (440Kb)
Click here to download a Photoshop template for NTCS (420Kb)
Click here for general image editing and Photoshop advice
Click here for resources on DV Video production
Codecs, formats & optimising concepts
Digital video file formats & codecs
Calculating DVD video data rates Click here to find out how to determine the maximum data rate.
Click here for resources on Audio recording
DVD Studio Pro / Photoshop layer menu example template (2.4Mb)
Writing a disc directly from DVD Studio Pro will take considerably longer than if you use Toast to write the files previously prepared by DVD Studio Pro ("video_ts" folder) .
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