Spanish DVDs
Sunday, January 22, 2012This is one reason why I don’t like to work on computers. You spend 7 or 8 months working on a project, and when it’s finally done, all you have to show for your labor is 6 plastic discs, which hardly look any different from when you bought them, waiting to be sent off for duplication. Well, to be fair, the project isn’t totally finished, as I need to create DVD artwork in Spanish as well, but the hard part, it seems, is finished. I never in my life imagined re-authoring this series was going to take so much time. But hopefully it will be a benefit to many people out there. It will be fun to find out!
If you really want to know, these DVDs are in English and Spanish, over 150 menus, that means over 300 Overlays (creates the selection for the menus, in both 4:3 and 16:9 formats). First you have to create all those, and then put them all together. To proof each DVD, you need to watch the video once, listen to 2 audio tracks, and watch 5 caption/subtitle tracks for each of the 51 video clips (11 hours total.) You also have to proof all the menus, their operation (links, color, navigation) in wide and narrow formats, with the DVD player set to English, then all again set to Spanish. When you come to a problem, you fix and try again.
It will be a couple months before these will be available… but at least it’s in the pipeline!
It was 7 years ago, when I was in a similar situation. That is when this DVD set was first completed, documented by yet another photograph…
I’m thankful to the Lord for allowing the project to be completed this far, and for those who have been praying and giving support so I can stay and work on projects like this. And I look forward to getting the artwork done so we can send these out for duplication, possibly next week.
