Editing Nutcracker CD/DVD Creation (section)

== For the DVDs, I did the following: ==

* Borrowed the Trinity Media Center's camcorder tape

* Digitized the tape by playing it through the digital camcorder and into a Mac computer running some variant of OSX.  I borrowed the Mac after fighting with my Windows PC for a few days.  

* Once the tape was digitized, I gave the tape back to the Media Center and also gave them a preliminary digital backup of that tape.

* I then used Apple's iPhoto, iMovie, and iDVD to create and master the finished DVD

** I used iPhoto to collect photos for a slide show that was included on the DVD

** I used iMovie to create chapters, one for each Act, for the final DVD.

** I used iDVD to create the DVD menu and glue in each separate "movie" to the menu itmes

** I used a digitized copy of a Nutcracker musical performance (in MP3 format) to use as background music for the DVD menu and the DVD photo slideshow.  Again, iDVD (or was it iMovie?) was used to put the music into the background.

** I created the DVD menu 

** I burned the final DVDs using iDVD on the same Mac.  The DVD iso image, which includes the menus, photo slide show (set to music), the chapters (one per Act), and credits came to a 3.8 GB.  I then burned the DVDs using DVD-R blanks.  Each blank took approximately 10 minutes or so each to burn.  Burning as many DVDs as we sold took several days of burning several copies simultaneously on 4 or so computers in my home.