I feel as if I was a little rushed trying to get this together two weeks after the grand opening, especially with all the hours I’ve been putting in at the coffee shop and the cinema, but on Saturday 22nd April DVDs of The Varsity Story went on sale. For $10 you get the DVD, complete with bonus materials in an attractive plastic case. That’s about five quid in real money.
In the process I’ve discovered that Apple’s iDVD program is a real pain in the arse to use if you want to do your own design rather than using the default templates. If in the future I want to produce my own DVDs, I will need serious pro-level DVD authoring software, which isn’t cheap. I also learnt that Kinko’s doesn’t configure its colour laser printers properly, and that if you want a good quality print it pays to hook your own laptop up to their printers rather than using the shoddy worn-out Dell computers they provide.
I’m fairly happy with the results. To my eye it’s not perfect, but as far as I’m concerned the project is finished.
It’s on sale in Davis, both at the Varsity and the Hattie Weber museum.
30/04/2006
When can we download it?
30/04/2006
This ^^
01/05/2006
Heh. Well, it’s 22 minutes, and weighs in at a good few gigs. It’ll be a long, slow download. I’ll make a compressed version available for streaming in the next couple of weeks. It won’t be as good as the real thing, but it’ll be watchable.
02/05/2006
Oh gosh yes, Kinko’s are terrible at printing, which is somewhat shocking given that they’re a print shop. Meg had an awful time getting leaflets printed there, as they told her that the program she’d used to put them together was “a bit funny”.
This would be Quark, the top DTP package. That everyone in the publishing industry uses. Cretins.
I’d have a look online for freeware packages, old bean, I’m sure that you’ll find something there with the capabilities you’re after, and without the hefty price tag.
02/05/2006
Nice package anyway though. I like that you did it landscape style, which immediately draws the eye.