DVD Production

Chapter 7

Asset preparation

Asset preparation involves creating or obtaining all the individual media elements of a title that are specified on the asset list, and converting those elements into the form needed to integrate them into a DVD title.

Asset preparation is always a major concern in the DVD production process, but the size of the job varies depending on the number of elements involved and in what form they are available. In some cases a DVD’s content will largely be re-purposed from elements already created for use in other contexts, while in other situations all the elements may be created entirely from scratch.

In a typical scenario, different aspects of production are often handled in different facilities: the video is edited ...