For DVD authoring Edinburgh, creation of autoplay autolooping DVDs, short run DVD duplication & DVD & VHS player hire give Edinburgh Projector Hire a call and see what we can offer you.

We offer an in-house DVD authoring Edinburgh facility and can assist you in the creation of professional autoplay, endless DVDs featuring your corporate logos and incorporating promotional film footage to get your message across. Our current client list for DVD authoring includes Bacardi Rum, The Ocean Terminal, Arc Worldwide, The Gilded Balloon & Beat 106 to name but a few. Our background in projector hire gives us a great insight into what will work in any given situation and we have a large stock of professional projection equipment & accessories such as DVD & VHS players available to facilitate your project from start to finish.

DVD authoring Edinburgh: Our in-house new media time can work from static logos, or from existing film clips (on DVD or VHS cassette) and create your new DVD, with any desired additions. We have found in the past that our clients tend to re-use existing footage wth additional, event-specific footage added as appropriate. This will often take the form of animated sponsors logos, with footage of past events (eg fashions shows, cocktail competitions, or club events) interjected periodically. Another common desired use of DVD is for the insertion of titling advertising upcoming events supported by the same sponsor.

Our DVDs are produced on the most widely compatible DVD disks (we can supply any kind although DVD-R or DVD+R are our usual disk format of choice), with a professional looking on body full colour print, featuring your logo, event names, instructions and any other desired or relevant infomation. We will supply jewel cases and can provide colour inserts & sleeves depending upon your wishes. If you have any questions or would like a quote on a DVD authoring or short run duplication job please feel free to give us a call on 0131 558 3824 - ask for Rock.

In addition to short run DVD authoring services, we maintain a large hire stock of associated and usfeul audio-visual & multimedia projectors and accessories. We have LCD, SVGA & XGA projectors, we have DVD players, VHS players, VHS & DVD combi players, portable DVD players. We have AV distribution amps & multimedia switchers. We have vision mixers, sound systems, visual effects units, projection screens, cd players, dj mixers, technics dj turntables and all manner of other professional event production equipment & lighting, so we are able to provide a full event production service in addition to DVD authoring.

Lets take a moment to get technical for those who are interested in some of the key factors in DVD authoring. One of the first things to be considered is disk format, of which there are many competing fomats. This is becoming less of an issue for the formats which have been around for some time now as domestic DVD players will happily work with most DVD formats. The original DVD formats were DVD-R & DVD+R which are write once. These were followed by DVD-RW & DVD+RW which are a similar format although they have adopted the rewritable technology as seen in CDRW & magnetic disks, ie. they can be rewritten repeatedly. Domestic DVD players may support these formats, newer ones should do. DVD-RAM is another format which has been around for some time (since 1999) but it is not widely supported by players. All these DVD authoring formats offer a 4.7 gigabyte capacity which was a considerable improvment on CD storage format, which have a capacity of 650 / 700 megabytes. The latest DVD authoring formats are have a DL suffix which denotes Dual Layer technology, ie. they have double the capacity of a standard DVD....support for these drives is coming online slowly now and despite attempts to standardise the technology, it has not quite happened, as there are newer even higher capacity formats in development. What will probably happen is that the formats will continue to co-exist and the manufacturers of the DVD authoring drives & DVD players will built machines designed to be compatible with the majority of formats.

DVD's are widely used for video / audio footage as they have the capacity to store full feature films due to the disk compression formats used. DVD films are encoded in MPEG2 format which allows for a movies to be heavily compressed (ie. shrunk to 1/10th or less of their original uncompressed size). This is visible to a certain degree but it does depend upon how heaviliy compressed the film footage is. PEG quality is typically expressed in a data rate eg. 8mbps (8 mega bytes per second) which can be variable, or set up to a maximum of 9.8mbps. For most of the DVDs which we author for our clients in Edinburgh & Scotland we do not utilise anywhere near the full capacity of the disk, typical disk length will be 1 - 10 minutes, but with the disk authored as an endless loop this isn't a problem. We would usually disable all menu options and set the disk to autoplay which minimises the risk of undesirable interference from bar staff, or any unauthorised persons on-site. After all, there's not much point in paying for a DVD which someone turns off after 2 minutes when your back is turned thereby spoiling all your hard work and ruining the effect.

If you have any queries regarding DVD creation then please feel free to give us a call and discuss your requirements. Our number is 0131 558 3824, ask for Rock, or email us at DVD Authoring in Edinburgh.