Post Magazine Article
Star
Video develops corporate DVD's
"There are 20 sections altogether," Brown continues, "each
of which has an average
of about eight slides to it. The playback order of the slides for each section
will be
different on each of the three DVD's, so you'll see something different on
each monitor.
The total running time for all 20 sections of the slides is only 3:30. Its
more of a mood
piece than an informational resource.
The idea isn't to have people standing there for a long the video, just to
give them a
quick overview and then get them out to see the houses."
While
preparations are completed for bringing this map driven presentation online,
the
Visitors Centers' video display plays another DVD created by Star. "They
need to
have something playing in that area until we get the other project done,"
Brown says,
"The current presentation is a single DVD playing on all three monitors.
It's a roughly
12 minute presentation including a history of the area, what they have currently
done
to the site, and what they are going to be developing in the future."
The
video presentation, delivered to Star by Habitat was captured and encoded
on Star's
Optibase FabDVD! production system which includes an Intergraph GL-2 , MovieMaker
200 Mpeg encoder and Daikin Scenarist NT Advanced authoring software. . "It
is a r
elatively simple disc navigationally." Brown says, "We authored
it to play the single piece
of linear video either in one pass or in a continuous loop."
While
Star has worked on a half dozen DVD projects so far Brown expects that both
the
volume and complexity of projects will increase with time. "Our biggest
challenge right
now is that people want to get into using DVD technology but they often don't
yet know
how to really capitalize on it," he observes, "so we are trying
to tell people who are used
to linear video production that we can do what they want, but that there is
also so much
more we can do with the format. We can let the end user branch through the
material in
any number of ways, from a complete tour to a question and answer session.
And because we have been talking to them at great length, some of our clients
are
starting to realize that now, and we have some projects coming to us that
will be much
more interactive. With DVD, the corporate video market doesn't have to think
linear
anymore."
Phil DeLancie
All of us at Star would like the thank Phil and Post magazine for the great
article.