• Consumer/Retail Mass Distribution (Movies, TV Shows, Music Videos)
• Advertising/Promotion/Trade Show hand-outs
• Corporate/Industrial/Training Internal Use/Distribution
• VideoWall/Point-of-Purchase display
• Specialized Environment (e.g. Museum display)
• Hospitality Services (e.g. Hotels, Airlines, Hospitals, Closed Circuit systems)
• Personal Use/Demo

TYPE OF DVD PROGRAM FORMAT

What type of DVD title will you be producing?

• DVD-Video (plays in DVD Video players and most PC DVD-ROM drives)
• DVD-Video/Hybrid (plays in DVD Video players, contains some added value when
  played in PC DVD-ROM drives and emerging web-enabled DVD Players;
  e.g. links to internet websites)
• DVD-ROM (a large ‘digital bit-bucket’; plays only in DVD-ROM drives on PCs)
• DVD-Audio or SACD (SuperAudioCD) (new Audio disc formats)
• CD-ROM (a smaller ‘Bit Bucket’; 650Mbyte capacity;
  large installed base...some PC-only DVD-Video Playback is possible)
• VideoCD (CD-ROM/MPEG1 format plays in PC CD-ROM w/VideoCD capabilities, most DVD players and standalone VideoCD players)
• Elementary File Compression only of Audio/Video elements
  (Delivery of compressed MPEG1, MPEG2, AC-3, PCM elementary files only)
  

DVD DISC TYPE

What is the estimated total program running length (all segments) of your project?

The answer to this question will have a bearing on the ‘type’ of DVD disc to be produced.
Will the final disc be?:

• DVD-5 Single Sided, Single Layer (4.7 gigs)
• DVD-9 Single-Sided, Dual Layer (8.5 gigs)
• DVD-10 Double-Sided, Single layer (4.7 gigs X 2)
• DVD-18 Double-Sided, Dual Layer (8.5 gigs X 2)
• CD format (650 Mbytes)
  

NAVIGATION/FLOWCHARTING

What sort of Audio/Video/Menus/Subtitles/Navigation do you want to include on your disc?

How do you imagine the title might navigate once loaded into the player/ROM-drive?

Should it play to the Main Menu Screen and await further input?

Should it go directly into play of the program material?

At the end of the disc:

Should it loop back and begin playing again?;
or, Should it return to the Main Menu screen?

Any special navigation/flowchart requirements?


ASSEMBLING THE SOURCE ELEMENTS

Do you need help in creating/attaining certain source elements for your disk?

When can you have all source media elements assembled and ready for processing?

Have you Pre-QC’d and approved all of the source media elements for inclusion in the DVD title?


VIDEO SOURCE

What videotape format is your Video Source (ie: DigiBeta, D1, D2) tape format? PAL or NTSC?

Rate the overall quality of the video element(s)

What is the aspect ratio of the video source element(s)?

• 4X3 Full-Screen
• 4X3 Letterbox (within a 4X3 FullFrame display)
• 16X9 Anamorphic
  

How many chapters/scene selections will you require in the main video program?

Will the final title contain more than one simultaneous/selectable video stream? (Angles?)

Are there separate motion video/audio segments (such as value-added material) which will be part of the disc; though are not part of the main program material?

Do the signal levels of each segment match tape-to-tape reference to setup Bars/Tone?


AUDIO SOURCE

What is your audio source format? (Audio Program on video source, DAT, DA-88 or other)

Rate the overall quality of the audio mix(es)/element(s)

Does the audio program sync to the picture elements? (Identical time codes?...)

Audio program mixes exist as?:

1 channel Mono
2 channel Mono
2 channel Stereo
2 channel Dolby Pro-Logic
5.1 channel discrete
Other?

Are there multiple audio language mixes/tracks required on the disc?

Do the translated/dubbed tracks exist?

Do you need help in creating the foreign dubbed tracks?

Which Audio/language should be the ‘default’ stream?


SUBTITLES - CLOSED CAPTIONS

Are subtitles/closed captions required?

What languages would you like to include?

Does a time-coded script exist in the native program language?

Is it conformed to the video program material?

Do you need help in getting translations done?

Do you need help in getting subtitle/closed caption files created?


MENUS

Do you want Menus included on the disc?

Static Menu Background Images or Motion/Sound Menus?

Should speeDVD supply its 'standard' static menu backgrounds?, or,
Will you provide menu background files?

Do you need help in getting custom menu files created?

Menu backgrounds are usually required for?:

• Title Menu
• Main Menu
• Audio Selection Menu
• Subtitle Selection Menu
• Chapter Selection Menu Page(s)
• Misc Catalog Menu Page(s)
  

DIGITAL ENCRYPTION, ANALOG COPY PROTECTION, PARENTAL LOCKOUTS
and DVD REGION CODING

Do you need digital encryption?

Do you require CGMS (Copy Guard Management System)

Do you need analog (Macrovision) copy protection?

Are you licensed with Macrovision?

Is the program rated? Do you require Parental Rating Lockouts?

The disc should be encoded for what Regions?
(1,2,3,4,5,6, combination of?..., All?)

REQUIRED DELIVERY DATE

What is your required delivery date for the final disc?

Have you considered allotting time to QC/Approve the FinalDisc?

Will you need sample one-off discs of your project?

What are your delivery needs? (DLT DVD Cutting Master or a number of discs?)

Do you have an already established relationship with a DVD disk replicator?

Would you like speeDVD to recommend some disc replicators for your project?

Have you developed the camera-ready disc art for the back of the disc?

Have you developed the Disc Jacket Print Artwork for the Disc Box?

Do you need help from speeDVD in development of these materials?


DVD PLAYERS

Do you already own a DVD Player(s)?
If so which brand(s), make(s) and model(#s)?

Are you planning on purchasing a DVD Player soon?

Does the player support playback of DVD-R media?

Does your project require a consumer or industrial model?

If purchasing a player; which one?
(brand, make and model)

Depending on the complexity of your title; will you require compatibility testing
(DVD Player, DVD-ROM) of your final DVD disc?

Based on your needs, would you like speeDVD to recommend a player for you?