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CATEGORY: Multimedia
The Challenges with Captions & Subtitles for DVDs
Nothing seems to be easy in our media world these days. You’d think that if there were captions on a master videotape that it would be easy to transfer them when encoding the tape to a DVD. But of course, it’s not that simple.
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What is an “authored” disc?
An “authored” CD or DVD is one that has on-screen selectable buttons that allow the viewer to easily navigate and “jump around” throughout a project.
For example, when you view a rented movie on DVD, usually a screen comes up after you put the disc in the player. The screen (which is commonly called a “splash screen”) often presents a number of choices ranging from “Play the Movie,” “Scene Selection,” ”Language,” etc. And those buttons often lead to sub-menus allowing for further choices. Well, what you have there is an authored disc.
Music from “After the Fall”
I have “fooled around” with my midi recording studio over the years. Here are two tunes . . .
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What did we do before YouTube?
The reach of video on the web has been exponentially increasing, and these days you can find web video being used in a variety of creative ways. From YouTube to dynamic banner ads, you no longer have to search for Internet video, it just might be searching for you.
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