
"We are pushing the envelope of the DVD specs."ĬRC's latest efforts have focused on creating innovative and interactive DVDs for children. The company's latest DVD products are "light years" beyond those early pioneering efforts says CRC's DVD-authoring specialist Sean Sutton. One of Chicago's leading music and advertising recording studios, the 26-year old CRC has found DVD Creator's audio-friendly orientation an invaluable asset for sustaining a steady flow of music-related DVD productions, including titles by Roger Daltry, the Beach Boys, Cheap Trick, Luther Allison, George Clinton and the P-Funk All Stars, and Harry Chapin.īut those music/video compilations are yesterday's news.

"We ended up working closely with Platinum Entertainment to repackage archival audio tapes, VHS footage of concerts, and videotapes of television appearances," he recalls. The company purchased Sonic DVD Creator more than three years ago after a client said it wanted to create 13 music/video combo DVD titles. The Chicago Recording Company is a DVD "graybeard," says Hank Neuberger, CRC's executive VP and general manager. Here's a brief look at its latest work.Ĭreating Interactive DVD Fun for Children One media production firm that quietly has been on the leading edge of this technological and creative wave is Chicago Recording Company. Suffice it to say, if you've seen an exciting graphical or interactive element in a DVD movie, the developers probably used a Sonic product to create it. To cover specific features would go beyond the scope of this book. These come in numerous configurations, with or without hardware.

Although some Hollywood movie studios use some custom-built DVD production hardware/software suites from Panasonic and others, most rely on Sonic Solutions products.įor the multimedia professional, Sonic offers DVD Producer for Windows and upgraded versions of DVD Fusion for the Mac.įor feature film production, Sonic offers DVD Scenarist for Windows and DVD Creator for the Mac. There really is no competition at the higher end of the DVD-authoring scale.
