Silver Bottom CD-R Duplication
September 21, 2009
If you are a band on a small budget, but want to produce a professional looking CD that does not have that green tint on the bottom of the disc, we have your solution. There has recently been a new manufacturer called Falcon, that is producing a very high quality CD-R that has a pure silver bottom. This disc looks just like our professionally pressed “replicated discs”, however, these are burnables. The advantage to these burnables is that you can order volumes as low as 50 pieces, yet still receive a finished product that looks like a pressed CD. Pressed Cd’s(replication) usually start at 1000 units or more.
We have had excellent response to these discs, they really are a great product and we hope to get the word out on these. 50% of selling your CD is marketing, and having a professional looking product to sell lets people know you care about the quality of your work.
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Top Tips for Burning your Audio CD Master
September 14, 2009
If you are a new band on a tight budget, here are a few tips for burning your next CD master.
Song Titles Showing up on My CD – Remember that even if you output a master from a program like I-tunes and you see the track titles, those track titles will most likely not translate to the duplication or replication process. What you have to do is Embed metadata into your ID3 tags. There are several free soft wares that will do this for you, just use your search engine browser for “Embedding meta data CD software” and you should be able to find a few. Once this is done, inform your Replication or Duplication company to check that the meta data is there on your master. You should be able to get an affirmative from your CD manufacturer.
Burning the master correctly – When burning your master, be sure to use quality blank media and burn at 16X speed. Audio CD’s do not have self correcting algorithms for burning data. Burning a disc slowly will help create a more robust disc that has less potential for errors. Also, using good blank media: we recommend Taiyo Yuden or Falcon if you can source them, or two good commercial brands are Verbatim and Sony.
These two topics typically represent most of the technical questions that we get on the CD Manufacturing end.
If you have more questions on CD Manufacturing you can contact us at:
1-888-889-2926
Ask for Amy or Brian
or send your inquiries to:
DVD Duplication.net
74 Crestline Drive, Suite 9
San Francisco, CA 94131
USB Flash Drive Duplication a good alternative to Optical Media
August 5, 2009
USB Flash Drives have been gaining more and more traction in the data storage and media distribution front. We are seeing more companies who previously have distributed their digital media on CDs or DVDs move toward the more eco friendly and re-usable USB flash drives. We believe that this medium of delivering data will continue to grow and provide a re-usable solution to data delivery.
Top Tips for Manufacturing your DVD
August 4, 2009
There are two main tips for making sure that your DVD Duplication or Replication project goes off without a hitch.
1. Artwork prep, artwork prep, …artwork prep. This is the number one issue that will slow down a DVD project. Take the time to plan ahead and read our artwork specifications and use the proper templates. Back and forth on artwork corrections is the number one thing that will slow down the production of your DVD project. We do everything we can on our end to help adjust artwork to minimize problems, however, there are circumstances where we cannot make adjustments to your artwork to get it to fit our specs. Sending your artwork back for you to re-do will delay a project by at minimum of one day, so plan ahead.
2. If you are new to DVD authoring, plan to spend at least 3 times as much time as you think it will take to finish your DVD master. DVD authoring is not as simple as hitting a button and making a DVD master. Usually most clients who are new to DVD authoring find that there is a long period of trial and error before the actual DVD works the way they envisioned. Video Quality vs. Compression parameters, menu creation and authoring and system crashes seem to be the big three problems here. Plan ahead so you have you master ready to go.
Always remember that time is money in manufacturing. We can offer more reasonable prices at longer lead times, but as art or master problems arise, we will have to shorten our lead times to make your delivery date. Those shortened lead times come with rush fees and premium prices to make up for the quick turns.
If you need more information about dvd manufacturing services just take a look at our services tab or call us at 1-888-889-2926. Ask for Brian or Amy
Longevity of Burnable Digital Versatile Discs
July 29, 2009
I just read another article about the low lifetime for burnable DVDRs. The author of this article was stating that his burned home DVDRs only lasted about 5 years. This is a fairly common occurrence and a general failing of both the industry providers of blank media and consumers who want cheap media. Blank media manufacturers products exhibit a wide range of good to bad media. Some companies produce very inexpensive DVDRs, of which the dye is out of spec and degrades quite quickly. Unfortunately the unsuspecting consumers who purchase these blanks will find that some of these discs will burn and play at the onset, however, after 6 months, 1 year , 5 years the DVDs no longer play. This is due to the dye that is used in manufacturing of the DVDRs. All DVDR dye is organic, and as such has a half life and a lifespan. A quality blank manufacturer’s discs may last to projected lifetime of 100 years , where a poorly manufactured disc may only last for 6 months after it has been burned. At DVDduplication.net we are constantly communicating to our clients that using quality blank media is of paramount importance. If you need your DVDs to play on the widest variety of set top players and computers and you want the DVDs to last, there is a cost vs. quality trade-off. Most times you wont even know you have trouble discs until 6 months down the road your DVDs don’t play.
So if you want your home movies that you have burned on disc to last, spend the extra money and buy a good brand name so you don’t end up with a bunch of “coaster” instead.
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