A few questions regarding DVD remastering.

[Acura NSX]

I don't know about you guys, but the whole process of converting a movie from a specific source to a DVD is interesting to me. Does anyone know exactly how this is done? What all goes into remastering and producing a DVD that is of great quality, for example, the Master of the Flying Guillotine. How long does the process take? Do companies like GZ and the like sometimes do a half-assed job to put out more DVD's, or is the process just that difficult? I'm sorry if I seem clueless here, but I really am when it comes to this. What exactly do these companies do when they convert these films to DVD?

Nick

[GaySerialKiller]

"What all goes into remastering and producing a DVD that is of great quality, for example, the Master of the Flying Guillotine. How long does the process take? Do companies like GZ and the like sometimes do a half-assed job to put out more DVD's, or is the process just that difficult?"

"Master Of The Flying Guillotine" was mastered from film elements so they could be re-mastered. Ground Zero uses videotapes as masters and does not care about quality. It all comes down to individual companies. Ground Zero uses video tape as masters, Tai Seng uses beta video as masters, Crash Cinema uses film elements for about 75% of their releases, and Hong Kong Legends uses film elements for all their releases.

[roguetechie]

www.dvddiscoveries.com/ (http://www.dvddiscoveries.com/)
they are releasing a DVD on the processing of DVD manufacturing and how DVD's get made to some degree.

I too would like to learn about the technological processes that go into making a DVD. the behind the scenes of Blade II only raised more questions for me. I mean I'm not willing to go to film school to learn about all this stuff (I already have a paying career) but I find it immensely fascinating. why things were filmed in a certain way versus another, lighting a scene, camera angles, I can go on and on but really, really fascinating to me...

[superpants]

i make dvd's at work, nothing major yet, but our first major one is coming up for a mass produced yoga video.

but you first want to start with the best possible master, which on older stuff can be hard and may need remastering. this is a career in it self, and most of the time you would one team or another company handling the remastering process. which depending on how badly the master is can be very expensive and very time consuiming.

once you have the best quality source you can get, you then need to convert you audio and video to mpeg2 video and ac3, pcm, dts or what ever audio. now this is also where quality can sacrificed, there are mainly 2 types of dvd's, dvd-5 single sided single layer and dvd-9, single sided doulbe layered. then you can have these as dvd-10 and dvd-18, same as the others but double sided now. dvddemystified might be worth checking out too.

dvd-5's are cheaper to produce but don't hold as much as dvd-9's. that's not neccessarily a bad thing. but depending on how long the film is and what bitrate you want to use for audio and video and how good you're encoder is, you can still have a great looking dvd.
for just the movie.

there's lots more stuff but i don't have time right now. but for production stuff, look at www.2-pop.com then their dvd authoring forum. but for relatively cheap, you can set up do it your self at home, if you were interested and wanted to give it a shot to see if you like it. at the time i was in school there were no classes on it and i'm not really sure if any school have good classes in dvd authoring. but get it and practice the hell out it and look for internships, etc. just put your fav. tv shows on dvd to get the hang of it.

creativecow.net also has a good dvd authring forum too you should check out.