Guide To My Services
At Etherel Productions, I offer 4 distinct Main Services.
While I am not limited to these services, the 4 of them make up the foundation of my business. Together it creates the start-to-finish project of taking your videos, and pumping out your own customized stylish looking DVD's. Below I list the highlights of each stage, or service, I provide. Click them for more details and pricing. You can pick and choose which options of each service you'd like. But if thats too much for you, or too confusing, take a look at some of the package offers at the bottom of this page.
Each step in this 4-step process is its own stage. You are not restricted to using every stage, and can choose what you need if thats what you want. If you just want the videos transfered, and prefer to DIY after that, you can. If you already have digital videos and want to take advantage of the rest of my services, go ahead. Mix and Match. Etherel Productions isn't a restricting business, locking you into rigid structured options. It's flexible and wants to help you take control of your videos, and help you design your perfect DVDs. If theres an idea you want to use, go ahead and ask. If you have questions that aren't answere here, feel free to Contact Me. Enjoy!
Browse through each stage, and add the costs from each stage together along the way. DVD Projects usually run from $19 to $35 dollars depending on how indepth and customized you want it.
1.) Video Transfer
This service takes your old analog tapes, such as VHS, VHS-C, 8mm, Hi-8 (and even your digital MiniDV and Digital D8) and turns them into a digital video file on the computer. See Quality to hear more about how I do this process. The default option is "Part of your Project", where I transfer your videos, and proceed to the next stage. Your options are (but are not limited to):
Part of your Project
To a Hard Drive
To a Data DVD
$1 Preview DVD
Editing of your videos lets you tweak, add, improve, remove, and in general change and refine your movie. If there's parts of your movie you don't like, extras that need removing, or you want to add a bit of your own touch and personalization, this is for you. The common options are:
Chop your movie into parts, to rearrange or remove at your discretion
Divide your single movie into multiple seperate movies
Choose your own Chapter Points
Add Scene Transition effects between transitions, scenes, and chapters
Overlay Text to your videos
3.) Menu Design
My unique and specialized service deals with distinctive custom menu designs. Its what makes the difference between a home movie, and a movie DVD. There are many different ways and possibilities to design menus, and with some real creativity, you can create not only beautiful looking menus, but menus that do wonderful things. Here are the basic options available. If you have any requests or ideas, ask away. I specialize in making customized menus, for that "wow" factor.
Customize with your own pictures or songs (or use my template pictures)
Single through multi-menu DVD's
Scene Selection Menus
Motion Menus, displays video clips of your movies in your menus
Switched Menus, an advanced menu design feature
4.) DVD Creation
Turn that personally designed project into a professionally created DVD. I use the highest quality discs to write your project to a playable DVD disc, and give it a professional feel. Each DVD copy has:
One main DVD disc, with a second long-life DVD disc for backup and compatibility
Customizable DVD labels
New Materials DVD Case
Customizable DVD Cover
Extra Copys available at a fair price
Compile Project as a Disc Image (.img), or DVD-Burning ready files on a Hard Drive
Simple Package Deals
B&W Text Design - $19 Additional Copies: $3
Includes:
Transfer Fee (2 hour tape)
Single Menu Template DVD
B&W Text labeled Disc
B&W Text labeled Backup Disc
DVD Case
Generic B&W Text Case Cover
Color Template DVD - $24 Additional Copies: $5
Includes:
Up To 3 Template Menus
Color Disc Template Labeled Disc
Color Disc Template Labeled Backup Disc
DVD Case
Custom Color Case Cover (using Menu Template Pictures, or color, as background)
Custom Color DVD - $28 Additional Copies: $5
Includes:
Transfer Fee (2 hour tape)
Up to 5 pictures you supply for use in your project
Up to 3 Menus, With up to 3 "6-scene" Chapter Menus (With Music)
Customized Color Labeled Disc
Customized Color Labeled Backup Disc
DVD Case
Custom Color Case Cover
Custom Color DVD Deluxe - $35 Additional Copies: $5
Includes:
Transfer Fee (2 hour tape)
Up to 10 pictures you supply for use in your project
Up to 10 menus, with up to 9 "6-scene" Chapter Menus (With Music)
Customized Color Labeled Disc
Customized Color Labeled Backup Disc
DVD Case
Custom Color Case Cover
Pick And Choose
Do you want to be creative, but none of the package deals is exactly what you want? Are you a total control freak who has to choose every option? Well, don't worry! You don't have to be forced into structured deal. Instead, pick your options from the 4 stages above, and add up your cost. Is there still something more you want thats not listed, or you want to tweak or change one of the options? Still no worries, Etherel Productions is very flexible! Just Contact Me with the options you have chosen, and what options you'd like changed, or added, and we can discuss (if its lengthy, please use e-mail). Feel free to go whacky with your menu design ideas. For more information on that, see Here.