Freshcut DVD- Straight - £ 25,00
This product is our entry level no-frills service which consists of tape capture and straight conversion to dvd. Chapter points are inserted every 10 minutes. There is no menu or Freshcut Interface and finished DVD is shipped in a Freshcut Dvd DVD case. This service costs £ 25,00 to convert video to DVD

Freshcut DVD - Super Custom - £ 30,00
This product builds on the success of Freshcut DVD - straight but adds the custom level of a menu interface with thumbnail pictures of your chapter points. With this product chapter points are added intuitively or by your specification. The DVD is shipped in a Freshcut dvd DVD case. .

Freshcut DVD - Super Custom Advanced - £ 30,00 plus £50,00 p/hr
This product alows you to fully customise the dvd interface. You send us , or we generate, the graphics , buttons and any other collateral you wish. This comes in a custom designed case or our standard case design. The price for this service is £ 36,00 plus £ 11,00 an hour or part therof for extra design or dvd creation work.

Corporate- £ 50,00
Why not convert your training or corporate advertising material to dvd without the huge and often exhorbitant cost of a post production facility? Freshcut DVD can help. We will transfer any tape to DVD for £ 50,00 including in that is the rush job facility which means that you will get your tape back within 4 days. Quicker turnaround times are also available.

For custom corporate jobs contact us. Our staff have the attitde that nothing is too complex to acheive why not contact us with regards your exact requirements and they will be happy to help.

DVD-Video discs require a DVD-drive with a MPEG-2 decoder (eg. a DVD-player or a DVD computer drive with a software DVD player). Commercial DVD movies are encoded using a combination of MPEG-2 compressed video and audio of varying formats (often multi-channel formats as described below.) Typical data rates for DVD movies range from 3-10 Mbit/s, and the bitrate is usually adaptive. When we convert video to DVD the bitrate must be considered to ensure quality.

With several channels of audio from the DVD, the cabling needed to carry the signal to an amplifier or TV can occasionally be somewhat frustrating. Most systems include an optional digital connector for this task, which is then paired with a similar input on the amplifier. The selected audio signal is sent over the connection, typically over RCA jacks or TOSLINK, in its original format to be decoded by the audio equipment. When playing compact discs, the signal is sent in S/PDIF format instead.

The audio data on a DVD movie can be of the format PCM, DTS, MPEG audio, or Dolby Digital (AC-3). In countries using the NTSC standard any movie should contain a sound track in PCM or Dolby AC-3 format, and any NTSC player must support these two, all the others are optional. This ensures any standard compatible disc can be played on any standard compatible player.

Initially, in countries using the PAL standard (most of Europe) the sound of DVD was supposed to be standardized on PCM and MPEG-2 audio, but apparently against the wishes of Philips, under public pressure on December 5, 1997, the DVD Forum accepted the addition of Dolby AC-3 to the optional formats on discs and mandatory formats in players.

Video is another issue which continues to present problems. Current systems typically include both composite video on an RCA jack, as well as S-Video in the standard connector. However neither of these connectors were intended to be used for progressive video, so yet another set of connectors has started to appear in the form of component video, which fully separates the signal into its three components (whereas s-video has two, and composite only one). Additionally, the connectors are further confused by using a number of physical connectors, RCA or BNC, as well as using VGA cables in a non-standard way (VGA is normally RGB). Even worse, there are often two sets of component outputs, one carrying interlaced video, and the other progressive. In Europe, SCART connectors are typically used, which offer a reasonable compromise between video quality, which is comparable and frequently superior to S-Video, and cost.

DVD Video may also include subtitles in various languages. They are stored as images with transparent background.

DVD Video may contain Chapters for easy navigation (and continuation of a partially watched film), another advantage to be gained when you convert video to DVD.

A major selling point of DVD Video is that its storage capacity allows for a wide variety of extra features in addition to the feature film itself. This can include audio commentary that is timed to the film sequence, documentary features, unused footage, trivia text commentary, games and film shorts. Convert your old video to DVD NOW!!

A word on Super VHS S-VHS or Super VHS was an improved, backward-compatible version of the VHS standard for domestic video cassette recorders.

It offered substantially better colour fidelity and resolution, with approximately double the number of dots per line (the standard measure of analog video resolution). They could actually represent a better picture than broadcast analog television - in practice, little improvement over standard VHS was visible when viewing material recorded off-air.

To view the better picture, a direct video connection to the monitor was required, ideally a component connection. Older television sets tended not to support this, negating much of the improvement in picture quality.

Home S-VHS decks never became popular outside of Japan, probably mainly due to their high cost, lack of prerecorded content, and the lack of visible performance improvements in playing off-air recording. S-VHS camcorders did become popular for high-end amateur work, as it allowed for at least second-generation copies (necessary for editing) to be made at a reasonable quality. Usefull for when you convert video to DVD

S-VHS is now mostly obsolete, as it has been replaced by DVD for playing prerecorded content, and by the various digital video formats for amateur and semi-professional video production.