Having done that, we were then required to quickly do some CD replication of both this CD-ROM plus an audio CD, and pack those into plastic double CD wallets.

With this turned around rapidly, the client had their presed discs in about 5 days, allowing them to start distributing the media to their contacts as soon as possible.

Birmingham School of Acting once again did their great thing of shooting scenes from films and TV shows starring their own graduates, so that a DVD could be created to show to various agents for these actors.

Brace was needed to do the DVD authoring, creating the 3D menus, woring all the options so all actors could be viewed individually (and once again, cleverly doing so, so that the limit of DVD specs could be overcome!); encoding all the films and then dealing with the DVD replication and printing.

The DVDs were replicated, packed into clear DVD cases, had double-sided inalys printed and inserted, plus a 24 page DVD booklet also inserted, all nicely cellophane wrapped.

All this was delivered in time for them to ship the discs out to their various destinations and give them to the students.

Ace…!

We were commissioned to create an Auto-running USB stick presentation to cover all this.  There was a lot of info to get across and make readable, but we were able to help them out with consistency of presentation to make things more absorbable.

Once the Autorun authoring was complete, they also tasked us with creating some corporate designs for a mousemat.

Having completed the project, we finally needed to deliver 500 full-colour mousemats, plus 400 2GB data-loaded USB sticks.  We got all this to them in time for their deadline so the materials could be used for their planned needs

Having created them a special little applet last year which would autorun off the disc, which would do this copying for a user, they needed us to update the disc to contain the current year’s documents.  Not a problem!

He asked Brace Media to design menus and encode his film for both the European PAL and American NTSC markets.  We based the designs off existing artwork so that his title was consistent with all materials creted before.

Having done this, we created DVD disc art, and set about the DVD duplication of his film on to glossy waterproof DVD-R

Mark was massively pleased with the discs that were delivered.

Once the filming and their editing was done, they needed a nice clean simple menu designed to be in keeping with the charity’s look, along with the DVD authoring of the disc.

Once that was done and approved, we had to do a run of DVD duplication and print of 250 discs in clamshells pretty quickly in order to be ready for an event.

We didn’t let them down!

The audio recording from this was then also mixed up at the 5.1 specialists in Digbeth, The Audio Suite.

We then received the audio for each channel and encoded it to Dolby Digital 5.1 and encoded the video sequence together to DVD.  This DVD was then used in the Gadget Show programme as part of their discussion and review of 5.1 audio.  Or something like that.

It was a pretty cool quick job to turn around, but received no less that our utmost attention.  We were pleased to hear it was well used!

To do this, they film their students, performing real scenes from existing movies or plays. These are directed by Michael B. Clifford, and then edited into mini films in their own right.

Another company is drafted in to design the DVD inlays, booklet and disc artwork, while we are busy planning out the technical layout of the DVD disc in order to squeeze in all the content that BSA want – finding ways around the limits of the DVD specification.  As we start receiving assets for each student, and the films themselves, we work closely with the design company so we are made aware of this year’s design.

With that in mind we can start planning out the DVD menu designs and how those will work.  For the 2011 DVD we had the time available to do a 3D animated menu again, yet tying in with the 2D graphic design of the DVD printed inlay.

After a lot of work – planning, modelling, animating, rendering, careful video encoding, and authoring – we got the master ready for the staff at BSA to approve.  Having had this ok’ed we then got on to the next task of replicating DVD discs, at retail quality, with printed inlays, booklets, and cellophane-wrapped, all done and delivered in time for a show they attend in London.

This year’s project went very smoothly and we are happy to hear that both staff and students were excited about the finished discs!

A Ducati dealer in Glasgow was in need of a bespoke version of the earlier tradeshow DVD, one with a Merry Christmas message as well. So upon receiving updating files from the nice Gysty chaps, we got this done and delivered super quick.   That’s what we’re here for! Ducati Glasgow

Ducati 2011 with several new and improved bike models had a ton of work for their UK agency, The Gyst.  The Gyst themselves were in need of a Braced hand when it came to preparing the DVD that would be on screens at the show.

In fact, not only were DVDs needed this time, but USB memory sticks too – so we were required to encode the Ducati video footage to a format that would work well from these sticks.

The tradeshow DVDs were delivered ahead of schedule so the video work was one less thing for everyone to fret about.