Matt Townley
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Nick, I just re-read your post. Sorry I did such a poor job of actually answering your questions!
I do not have a minimum quantity for copy-protection for DVD’s. I’m not sure about other vendors or how they handle this. As for cost, it is dependent on volume. Rimage licenses the RVP on a per disc basis and makes i a pain to get the dongles needed to activate the encryption. Perhaps thats why it works well? 🙂
I hope that helps……
Cheers!
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My core business is duplication and replication and I offer short-run DVD copy-protection. I am one of the few duplication services that I know of to offer this.
It is an encryption method called Rimage Video Protect (RVP) from Rimage Corporation. It is fairly expensive, but works pretty well. It requires Rimage Producer 7100 or 8100 equipment to use as well. I have a section on my website about it at https://www.mstproductions.com/services/cdanddvd/copy-protection.php. Im sure Rimage has more information about it as well on their site.
I won’t go into too much detail about it here for space sake, but if you read about it on my site I go into quite a bit of detail about how it works.
Of course, RVP, just like any copy-protection method, is not 100% secure, but it certainly offers far greater protection from ripping and copying than CSS or any other method I have seen.
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The artwork is not on the CD itself. It is submitted online just like the track and album information. When someone puts the CD into a program like iTunes, the CD information is collected and then the software looks for a match to it in the Gracenote database and pulls the track listings. I am not as familiar with this process for album art, but I do not nothing is on the CD itself.
I know that if you sell your music on iTunes, your album artwork is uploaded as part of your music files and then hosted in their database. I am not sure how to get it “up there” other than this.
Hope that helps with something! Let us know if you find a better answer as I would be curious what the answer to your question is.
Best of luck….
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Have you thought about a piece of black matte board to fit perfectly over the screen of the iMac? You can have a frame store cut it to fit perfectly for very inexpensively. Just a thought…
Matt Townley
MST Productions
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I agree with Michael. Go with a 3-disc “box set.” This will keep your video at a higher quality and add perceived value to the people buying it. You may be able to charge more since there are 3 discs instead of “just one.”
If you need duplication for your project when you are done, feel free to email me and I can give you a quote.
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Not sure if you need specific ability to sync with video within the program, but Audacity is a great (and free) program for recording and basic tweaking, etc. https://audacity.sourceforge.net/
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I’m not sure if there is an official desaturate effect native in ID, but a quick way to create the same visual look would be to create a new object over your image, set the fill color to white and set the transparency blend to color.
This may not work in every situation depending on what you have going on with other assets, but this would do the trick.
Also, the color data will still be there, so keep this in mind depending on your printing scenario.
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I agree with Dave. I use more than 4,000 DVD-R’s per month for the duplication side of my business, and they are all Taiyo-Yuden. We burn at 8x and have less than a 1% error rate with them.
We use the A-Grade White Thermal Hub Printable, so they are a bit more expensive that some of their other options.
There is a newer brand made by Falcon which we have tested and they are also quite good. We buy ours from The Tape Company or Media Distributors. For smaller quantities, you might try SuperMediaStore.
Hope that helps.
Matt