How to prepare a Master Disc

1:What purpose does the disc serve?

- General purpose data (.pdf, .doc, .ppt, etc) are suitable for all media types CDs, DVDs, DL-DVDs or Blu-Ray Discs.
- Mastered Audio (to be played in car sound systems, some DVD Players and computers) only on CDs.
- Authored Video to DVD disc with or without menu feature/s (Playable on DVD players, Blu-Ray players and computers) only available on DVD Discs.
- Authored High Definition Video to Blu-Ray disc with or without menu feature/s (Playable on Blu-Ray players and computers) only available on Blu-Ray Discs.

- CDs can store approximately 700MB of data or 80 minutes of Mastered Audio.
- DVDs can store approximately 4.5GB of data.
- DL-DVDs can store approximately 8.5GB of data.
- Blu-Ray Discs can store approximately 25GB of data.

2:When burning your data to disc please make sure you check the following

- Make sure your master disc plays on the specific device you have designed it to work on (DVD-Video to play on a DVD-Player and PC, Audio CD to be played in the car or stereo system, etc).
- If it doesn’t remember that we only take what you provide and duplicate your master disc. We make NO alterations to the content, so if there is an error or mistake on the disc it will show in the rest of the duplications.

- Another thing to watch out for is too make sure the disc’s name is correct (test this on a computer and see what name shows up).

Disc Names should be 15 characters or less which includes letters, numbers, spaces and some symbols.

3: Advise us of sensitive materials

Once delivered to our studio our regular testing procedure is to duplicate from your master disc to a blank disc and test that burnt disc on the player intended for use (DVD-Player for DVD-Video, Computer for Data Disc and stereo system for Audio CD).

If you have sensitive information on your discs and would like us NOT to view its contents please advise us before duplications proceed.