DVD: Amazing Grace: Gospel Favorites For Banjo

Published by Brance on October 3rd, 2005
Filed under CD and DVD releases, Studio News

This week I’m putting the finishing touches on a DVD for The Murphy Method. This is a product that was previously available on VHS. I am transferring it to DVD for them. What this involves is first capturing the analog master tape into a digital format. Once that is done I do a little editing, basically just updating intro and credit screens, etc. Then I set the chapter markers for the DVD. Next I do some color correction and other enhancements to the footage. Then I work with the audio. It’s really just a matter of cleaning up the noise that is inherent in analog tape. This is often called tape hiss. Then maybe a little mastering EQ/compression. The next step is encoding the video and audio assets for DVD.

Now I can start building a DVD. I use only original photos, taken by either myself or Dave Carney, as menu background images. Then I design menus to match the theme of the DVD. In this case the product is a gospel banjo DVD so I used stained glass windows as the background. Once the menu design is complete, I link all the buttons to the appropriate chapter markers, write any necessary scripts for functionality, and then build the disc.

The last project I did for Murphy was a beginning fiddle DVD. It’s available online here.