DVD


Crest Digital was a pioneer in DVD, authoring our first title in January of 1997, three months before DVD players were commercially available, and providing the first DVD replication services in Hollywood in 1998. We are one of the most experienced DVD facilities in the industry, having provided DVD services for thousands of feature film, television, marketing and industrial projects. Crest Digital provides a true single source solution for all of your DVD needs, including encoding, authoring, interactive menu design, package design, game creation, special feature production, audio commentaries, turnkey replication and packaging.

		Design Using the latest industry-standard design tools and years of award-winning DVD experience, Crest Digital creates DVD menus with innovative design from concept to final layout, incorporating material or artwork from supplied video, audio, key art and/or original design resulting in a full realization of your vision from cost effective static menus to extraordinarily sophisticated full-motion menus. We can faithfully produce your concept or completely develop the look of your project including menus, disc art and packaging design.
		Encoding Crest Digital is a preeminent provider of SD and HD encoding services for DVD, Digital Cinema, VOD and archiving, as well as digital delivery. We feature the industry's finest encoders combined with the expertise of experienced compressionists providing the finest encoding attainable including JPEG 2000, MPEG 1, 2 & 4, Windows Media, and Quick Time.
		Authoring Our extensive experience authoring thousands of DVD titles combined with the industry's leading high-powered authoring systems and exhaustive quality control enables Crest Digital to provide logical and intuitive navigation with unsurpassed reliability. You are assured that your DVD will be programmed the way you want without compromise and more importantly that it will operate successfully in the field.
		Replication Crest Digital's extensive encoding, authoring, design and production services are complemented by the west coast's largest disc manufacturing facility. Our 125,000 square foot facility is located in Anaheim, California and provides turnkey manufacturing services including: Mastering & Replication For DVD & CD Award-Winning Six-Color Screen & Offset Disc Printing CD-R & DVD-R Duplication Automated & Hand Packaging Worldwide Project Management Our replication clientele includes the world's largest software companies, video game distributors, major and independent record labels, home video distributors and ISP's, as well as marketing and advertising agencies.
		DVD Class ‘A’ Verification Services Crest Digital is one of only 3 Class ‘A' DVD Verification Laboratories, and one of only 2 Class ‘A' HD-DVD Laboratories approved by the DVD Forum in North America.  Class-A Verification Laboratories are acknowledged experts in DVD technology and provide comprehensive DVD testing and evaluation services. They are run by DVD Forum Steering Committee members and/or leading companies in the development of DVD Formats. They must satisfy the following requirements: Execute comprehensive DVD verification Execute services requested by the DVD Forum (e.g. market inspections) Contribute to further development of testing criteria, methods and procedures Provide technical support and analysis of compatibility & problems, interpretation of DVD Specs and support for Class 'B' Verification Labs