Many thanks John, they have actually asked for AppleProRes @ 1920pix but I work on PC. Would quicktime suffice do you think, similar in quality?

Hi,

Rule 1) Work with the duplicating house to supply the finish DVD or BR product ready to duplicate :

You must supply DVD or BR on a disk.

Also the picture on the disk at 300 dpi. You can use Adode illustrator to generate a PSD file. Or you can use a paint program to generate a JPG file high quality at 300dpi. The size is 116 -118mm and round circle inside is adjusted to the physical disk (large or small) better small circle about 12 to 14mm.

Same thing for the trap sheet rough dimension 7,125'' x 10,75'' plus bleed about 1/8 on each side. This is same a PSD or JPG at 300dpi.

Printing :

Small quantity is made like burning up 11 disks at time (tower duplicating) cost about 0,50$ each printing done call offset (inkjet printing) cost about 0,46$ each

Trap sheet printing can be done by photocopy or conventional 4 colors offset printing plus clear on top. Photocopy cost 0,75$ each offset cost 0,30$

DVD case cost between 0,14$ to 0,65$ each

Wrapping as low as 0,06$ to 0,12$

Artistic work done by duplicating house charged at 75$ to 125$ per hour. Where extra profit is made.

Before to send to dupiicating make a small scale testing burning and printing 25 unit. Also you can find on the web template for your work, large burning house offer templates for DVD and trap sheet.

Regards,

YR

Hi

Looks like they want to do all the artwork etc for you with the obvious costs involved, time wasted proofing the disc image, menus and disc inserts.

Does your DVD or BD have to be commercial/broadcast quality ?

I would look for an alternative duplicator and proceed as yvon-robert has suggested. 

HTH

John

Hi,
Depends the quantity, you need:

In house production is good for few hundred disks, you need a duplicator to duplicate 2 to 11 disks at time is the same than DVD or BR writer in your computer, same time same quality.
Printer is inkjet like Canon with special tray to print Disk surface (special disk with a primer coating white or gray costing same price than common disk)

Commercial House printer: (2 methods)
Method 1) Automatic burning tower print and burn disk one or two at the time. Automatic loading and unload can work day and night without or near supervision.
Method 2) Special glass mold made to print data on disk, big circular machine maybe 20 feet diameter to print using screen printing plate and etching data on disk. Good for large quantities more than 1000 disks. Setup and washing machine to use.
The preparation is same in house or commercial you need your original DVD perfect, artworks for disk and trap sheet.
Quality of data on disk. You can adjust to standard for picture and data. (Quality 9 to 15, Bit rate adjusted for DVD or BR) Attention not push too much some house players are cheap, check your project on house player and computer player.
Regards,
YR

Thanks for the info. It was just the file format i was interested in really, i dont know which is the best quality to grade from, QuickTime, AVI or Uncompressed video? There are many different formats available in the Export Movie option...

thanks again

tony