DVD authoring describes the process of creating a DVD video that can be played on a DVD player. DVD authoring software must conform to the specifications set by the DVD Forum group in 1995. The specifications are complicated due to the number of companies that were involved in creating them. In computing, optical disc authoring, including CD authoring and DVD authoring, known often as burning, is the process of recording source material—video, audio or other data—onto an optical disc (compact disc or DVD). ... “Optical media” redirects here. ... It has been suggested that ISO image be merged into this article or section. ... This article does not cite any references or sources. ... Optical disc authoring software is computer software for authoring optical discs including CD-ROMs and DVDs. ... CD and DVD recorders for authoring optical discs such as CD-ROMs and DVDs have a history of various technologies. ... 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Strictly speaking, DVD authoring is a separate process from MPEG encoding, but most modern DVD authoring software have a built-in encoder (though separate encoders are still used when better quality or finer control over compression settings is required). MPEG encoding is the process of converting video to the MPEG format for distribution or for archiving on to DVD. MPEG encoding can be done purely in software or by using an MPEG encoding card or a video editing card with in-built MPEG encoding facilities. ...

Most authoring applications are for video DVDs only; they do not support the creation of DVD-Audio discs. The DVD-Audio logo. ...

Stand-alone DVD recorder units generally have basic authoring functions, though the creator of the DVD has little to no control over the layout of the DVD menus, which generally differ between models and brands. DVR with built-in DVD recorder. ...

The DVD Specification

To develop a DVD application (software or hardware), one must first licence the particular book of DVD specifications from DVD Format/Logo Licensing Corporation, a Japanese corporation. The different DVD formats have different books; each book contains hundreds of pages and costs approximately $5000. After obtaining this licence, the developer is required to become a licensee which requires an additional fee. Without becoming a licensee, the book can be used only for reference, not for actual creation of DVD applications. Computer software (or simply software) refers to one or more computer programs and data held in the storage of a computer for some purpose. ... For other uses, see Hardware (disambiguation). ... A license or licence is a document or agreement giving permission to do something. ... A software developer is a person who is concerned with one or more facets of the software development process, a somewhat broader scope of computer programming or a specialty of project managing. ...

The DVD specifications were written in Japanese and then translated to English for use in America with prose that often rivals the complexity of legal documents. To this day, many companies interpret various parts of the specifications in different ways. This is the reason DVD players from different manufacturers do not always conform to the same rules – each developer understands the specifications in a slightly different way. The English language is a West Germanic language that originates in England. ... Look up readability in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... Legalese is the term given to the special technical terminology of any given language (usually English) in a legal document. ...

History

There are many DVD authoring applications available to help create digital video discs. Many high-end authoring applications are written in-house by companies such as Matsushita, Philips, Sony, and Toshiba. These are strictly not for sale outside each company and are used internally by the company DVD laboratories or their movie studio partners to produce DVDs for customers. Logo for the Panasonic brand Matsushita Electric Industrial Co. ... Philips HQ in Amsterdam Koninklijke Philips Electronics N.V. (Royal Philips Electronics N.V.), usually known as Philips, (Euronext: PHIA, NYSE: PHG) is one of the largest electronics companies in the world, founded and headquartered in the Netherlands. ... Sony Corporation ) is a Japanese multinational corporation and one of the worlds largest media conglomerates with revenue of $66. ... Toshiba Corporations headquarters (Center) in Hamamatsucho, Tokyo Toshiba Corporation sales by division for year ending March 31, 2005 Toshiba Corporation ) (TYO: 6502 ) is a Japanese multinational conglomerate manufacturing company, headquartered in Tokyo, Japan. ... A movie studio is a controlled environment for the making of a film. ...

One particular high-end DVD authoring software package is Scenarist, available for sale from the very beginning by Daikin, a large Japanese air conditioning and refrigeration contracting company, which partnered with Sonic Solutions for development and marketing in the U.S.. The software was translated to English and has since become the standard for DVD production in Hollywood amongst other places. Like the other high-end and very expensive systems, it conforms to the DVD specifications more closely than other software. In 2001, Sonic Solutions acquired the DVD authoring business, including ReelDVD and Scenarist, from Daikin. Daikin Industries is a mayor Japan-based manufacturer of air conditioning systems. ... Sonic Solutions NASDAQ: SNIC is a Novato, CA (California, USA) based digital media company. ... ... Sonic Solutions NASDAQ: SNIC is a Novato, CA (California, USA) based digital media company. ...

Sonic, a U.S. corporation, is also a major player in selling DVD authoring tools. They previously manufactured computer based audio recording applications. They soon realized that at some point DVD recorders would become as widely available as CD recorders and that there was no affordable application for the home market or that DVD recorder makers could license as an OEM. At that time, all DVD authoring applications cost many thousands of dollars. Methods and media for sound recording are varied and have undergone significant changes between the first time sound was actually recorded for later playback until now. ... OEM is an acronym for any of the following: Object Exchange Model Office of Emergency Management, a general term for emergency management functions Office for Emergency Management, a World War II function within the Executive Office of the United States Government Oracle Enterprise Manager Original Equipment Manufacturer The DOS code...

Sonic developed DVDit, an application that started selling below $500. It used only a small part of the whole DVD specification and it presented it in a form that didn't require any knowledge of internal DVD structure. This form become later the building block of many other simplified consumer DVD applications. The OEM licensing allowed Sonic to very soon become the major player.

For a short period of time around 2000, Spruce Technologies was becoming another major player in the market. They created DVD Maestro, a software and hardware system in the same price bracket as the Scenarist system but with a much more user friendly interface. While Scenarist could require months of learning and training, DVD Maestro could be used productively in a much shorter time. DVD Maestro implemented almost all of the DVD specifications like Scenarist, however unlike Scenarist it borrowed an abstraction layer from the consumer oriented applications such as ReelDVD or DVDit. Creating DVDs became a far easier task, yet it only sacrificed a bit of Scenarist's universality. When Spruce started selling SpruceUp, a watered-down consumer incarnation of their DVD Maestro far below the price of Sonic's DVDit, and very similar to Sonic's MyDVD, there was obvious competition between Sonic and Spruce. Both companies were trying to address the very same market, but the market was not big enough. A surprising resolution of this conflict came from Apple Computer, who bought Spruce Technologies for an undisclosed sum. Apple was at that time already marketing its own DVD authoring system after acquiring German software developer Astarte, but boldly decided to go with Spruce for their next incarnation of DVD Studio Pro. This also required Spruce to stop selling and developing applications for PC. Usability is a term used to denote the ease with which people can employ a particular tool or other human-made object in order to achieve a particular goal. ... An abstraction layer is a way of hiding the implementation details of a particular set of functionality. ... Apple Inc. ... Astarte on a car with four branches protruding from roof. ... Apples DVD Studio Pro allow users to create DVD Masters to send out to production houses. ...

Since then, many other companies have developed prosumer and home authoring tools, including Adobe Systems, Mediachance, and Ulead. Adobe Systems (pronounced a-DOE-bee IPA: ) (NASDAQ: ADBE) (LSE: ABS) is an American computer software company headquartered in San Jose, California, USA. Adobe was founded in December 1982[1] by John Warnock and Charles Geschke, who established the company after leaving Xerox PARC in order to develop and sell... MediaChance is a software development company originating in Canada, but since 2003 has opened office in Europe, where software is developed by a Czecho-Slovak team. ... A group that makes computer-software. ...

DVD Resources

• Jim Taylor's DVD FAQ
• Duplicating your DVDs
• VLC DVD Tutorial
• Understanding Recordable & Rewritable DVD by Hugh Bennett

Authoring Applications

Top-end

• Sonic DVD Creator
• Sonic Scenarist
• Sony Pictures Entertainment Blu-Print (for Blu-Ray Authoring)
• Matsushita MEI Authoring Tool

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Studio Professional

• Apple DVD Studio Pro (Mac)
• Mediachance DVD-lab PRO
• DVD Maestro (no longer available)
• Sonic DVDit Pro (formerly DVD Producer)
• Adobe Encore 2.0 and up

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Corporate Professional

• Adobe Encore
• Mediachance DVD-lab PRO
• Pinnacle DVD Impression
• Sonic DVDit
• Sonic ReelDVD
• Sony DVD Architect (Part of Sony Vegas)
• Ulead DVD Workshop 2
• Astarte DVDirector (now owned by APPLE and incorporated into DVD Studio Pro)

Adobe Encore is a DVD authoring program from Adobe Systems that is often used by professionals because of its ease of use and versitility. ... MediaChance is a software development company originating in Canada, but since 2003 has opened office in Europe, where software is developed by a Czecho-Slovak team. ... Pinnacle Systems, Inc. ... Sonic Solutions NASDAQ: SNIC is a Novato, CA (California, USA) based digital media company. ... Sonic Solutions NASDAQ: SNIC is a Novato, CA (California, USA) based digital media company. ... Sony Corporation ) is a Japanese multinational corporation and one of the worlds largest media conglomerates with revenue of $66. ... A group that makes computer-software. ...

Home

• Apple iDVD
• Arcsoft Showbiz DVD
• Cyberlink PowerProducer
• Dazzle DVD Complete (no longer available)
• GEAR Video
• Magix Movies on CD-DVD
• Mediachance DVD-lab
• Muvee Technologies AutoProducer
• Nero Vision
• Pinnacle DVD Expression
• Roxio Easy Media Creator
• Sonic MyDVD
• SpruceUp (no longer available)
• TMPGEnc DVD Author
• Ulead DVD Movie Factory
• WinDVD Creator
• Sony DVD Architect
• MuxMan by MpuCoder

iDVD is a DVD creation software application made by Apple Computer for Mac OS X. iDVD allows the user to add QuickTime Movies, MP3 music, and digital photos to a DVD that can then be played on a commercial DVD player. ... Founded in 1995, CyberLink Corp is a world leader and pioneer in bringing advanced digital video and audio software to the market. ... GEAR Video 8 is a CD and DVD authoring software program for Microsoft Windows. ... MediaChance is a software development company originating in Canada, but since 2003 has opened office in Europe, where software is developed by a Czecho-Slovak team. ... muvee Technologies is a Singapore-based software company specializing in automated video editing software for the consumer PC market. ... Nero Burning ROM is a popular optical disc authoring program for Microsoft Windows and Linux by Nero AG, formerly Ahead Software. ... Pinnacle Systems, Inc. ... Easy Media Creator is optical disc authoring software, produced by Roxio. ... Sonic Solutions NASDAQ: SNIC is a Novato, CA (California, USA) based digital media company. ... TMPGEnc is video editing and MPEG encoding software. ... Ulead Systems (TSEC:2487) was a Taiwanese computer software company headquartered in Neihu district in Taipei, Taiwan. ... The WinDVD interface WinDVD is a commercial DVD player for Microsoft Windows, created by InterVideo. ... Sony Corporation ) is a Japanese multinational corporation and one of the worlds largest media conglomerates with revenue of $66. ...

Free software

Free software implementations often lack features such as encryption and region coding, and depending on the philosophy of the DVD producer, may not be considered suitable for mass-market use. The following is an excerpt of the article entitled DVD. For the sake of convenience, the terms Region 0, Region 1, Region 2, Region 3, Region 4, Region 5, Region 6, Region 7 and Region 8 redirect to this page. ...

• DVDStyler uses wxWidgets
• 'Q' DVD-Author uses Qt (toolkit)
• KDE DVD Authoring Wizard
• DVD Flick
• Avi2DVD
• GUI for DVD Author