[Dan Roth]

You can’t _burn_ a glass master, you’ll need to burn a master that you send off to a duplication plant that then creates a glass master. You can also send them the disc image as a file, on something like DLT, and they’ll create the glass from that.

It doesn’t sound like the discs are all that complex, so any reasonably capable app should do, Encore should be fine. It’ll just be a lot of tedium building the discs and setting up the navigation and actions. The fancier you get with interactivity, the more you need to sit down and figure stuff out. If it’s just a bunch of video files that play back after a menu button is chosen, or a menu that links to a submenu, it’s not that big a deal. Drawing a flowchart of how it’s all supposed to fit together helps immensely with getting a handle on an intricate project.

Also, I’ve been very displeased with the responsiveness of discs built with layered menus, and if there’s going to be a lot of selection of items required by the viewer, I’d suggest using Overlay menus.

Dan Roth
Tripp Street Studios
Framingham, MA

[Dan Roth]

You can’t _burn_ a glass master, you’ll need to burn a master that you send off to a duplication plant that then creates a glass master. You can also send them the disc image as a file, on something like DLT, and they’ll create the glass from that.

It doesn’t sound like the discs are all that complex, so any reasonably capable app should do, Encore should be fine. It’ll just be a lot of tedium building the discs and setting up the navigation and actions. The fancier you get with interactivity, the more you need to sit down and figure stuff out. If it’s just a bunch of video files that play back after a menu button is chosen, or a menu that links to a submenu, it’s not that big a deal. Drawing a flowchart of how it’s all supposed to fit together helps immensely with getting a handle on an intricate project.

Also, I’ve been very displeased with the responsiveness of discs built with layered menus, and if there’s going to be a lot of selection of items required by the viewer, I’d suggest using Overlay menus.

Dan Roth
Tripp Street Studios
Framingham, MA