Video Editing & DVD Authoring

Once your footage is shot, an entirely different but equally important process begins.  If we have recorded multiple camera angles of an opera or concert, or if you provide us with video, be it raw interview footage, dailies from a feature film, etc. the video will need editing.

A sample screen from DVD Architect.  Here, Weston Sound goes through the final step in transferring a client’s 8mm films, shot in 1967, to DVD.

Whatever the project, we will listen to your needs and work with you to create the best final product possible.

Our cameras and editing equipment are configured to work together, so if we have shot the footage for you, the editing process starts off on a good note.  We use Sony Vegas 6.0 software to seamlessly edit between multiple camera angles and to synch our digital video with the digital multi-track audio we record with every event.  If you are providing us with footage from another source, or footage you wish to be restored or preserved to DVD, we can do color correction, widescreen conversion, film effects and dozens of other techniques for less than ideal footage.

A sample screen from Vegas 6.0, as the final video and mastered audio are synched and rendered out to DVD Architect.

Once edited, we import the video into Sony DVD Architect 3.0 (see image), from which we can make your DVD exactly to your specifications.  Any DVD format is available, from the most simple single-play discs to the most complex: animated menus, multiple audio tracks (for commentaries, narrations, or to allow end-users to pick from stereo or surround!), with customizable chapter points, background menu sounds or music, etc.