DVD duplication: to do or not to do?
A continuous fall in the prices of DVD media and equipments has led to increase in the production quantity of discs. Event videographers can now consider more projects other than covering wedding and birthday videos where only a limited number of copies were required.
They are now able to cover stage events and business videos also.
Now-a-days, more and more companies are saving their corporate presentations on discs and distributing them to their clients, partners and other people involved in their business. These companies require discs in larger quantity.
As the difference between the cost of DVD and a CD is decreasing day by day, there is a growing trend of duplicating a DVD. With this growing trend, more and more videographers are equipping themselves with duplication machines. As they get the equipments needed for duplication, videographers have started considering duplication as a side business other than their professional videography business.
There are advantages and disadvantages involved in in-house duplication processes: in-house duplication is more cost-effective but it is time-consuming, and what if something goes wrong, and you have to redo a number of copies. Outsourcing duplication to professional people can be convenient in this regard. Expertise is after all always reliable to professionals as well as to the customers. In-house duplication will also need the videographer’s concentration, which he or she may have used in his or her mainstream business of videography.
Duplication also requires other equipments like printer, monitor, amplifier, automated duplication or printing system etc. There is an extra cost of ink consumed in the process of duplication and the cartridges may be needed to be changed frequently. Apart from the additional cost, the duplication machine will also require space in your studio, or you may be required to buy some extra space for the machine. You should have the skills to rectify the mistakes possibly done during duplication, or you must approach a professional duplicator for help resulting in some extra fees.
Duplicating would require much of your time which you could use by undertaking other projects.
Author: Tiffany Beckford / writer in Dallas DVD Duplication media industry
