The Grease DVD has printable, 'emailable' photos.

First let me apologize to Kelsey of the Sr. Company. I cut off her solo early. Please forgive me.

Yes, some of the lighting wasn't good but I'll improve that in time. Closer shots makes the difference. There are other mistakes I made.

The Grease DVD's has almost 200 pictures that can be used on a computer. Just look manually on the DVD just as you would a CD to find the pictures. You can email them as well. If you need higher resolution pictures like 8x10 prints please let me know the number and I'll get you the original file.

Recital DVD's ordered (and are at the studio) to date are 46 (I have ten extra). Grease orders are 34 (I have two extra). Why two DVD's? DVD's only record two hours (the case may say 6 hours but that's not true as my Jessica noted yesterday as she looked at a case!) max video. Recital DVD alone is 2 hours and contains that wonderful moment when the music stopped and the danceres kept on going!(whoops - that was on Grease) Grease video is 1 hour.

Some of you have asked about how I do this work and others want to learn how (Courtney, Mara's dad and my Jessica) and below are the details.

The DVD's were created with some very new technology. The camera's were two tapeless Canon SD200. These camera's record unlimited video AVI's onto SD Cards. The SD Cards are High Speed 1gb. The AVI's are 640x480 at 30fps. Because these cards only record about 8-11 minutes at a time, I had two cards for each camera. The cards were then feed into an Apple Mac Mini which you may have seen below the tripods and reused immediately. Lesson learned - have three cards ;) [so I don't cut off Kelsey].

Also, I had some programming to automatically read in the card's data but that began to lag and fail so another lesson is to use a monitor to 'watch' what is going on.

The movies were then processed on an Apple PowerMac G5 using Quicktime Pro v6.52 to edit the shots. Quicktime Pro is a $29.99 upgrade of the standard Quicktime that most of us have already to view movies. Pro gives the ability to cut-copy-paste and more.

The DVD's insert photos are taken with either the Canon SD200 at high-res or more-than-likely with a Pentax *ist DS with a 40mm lens. The Pentax shots are captured as RAW and processed in Adobe Photoshop CS.

The DVD's were mastered from iDVD v4.0 from Apple Computer. I used TDK and Philips DVD's. TDK offers a nice slimline case with DVD-R in 10 packs at Circuit City for a very good price. That insert paper that comes with them is what I overprinted to. Some of you may have problems playing the DVD's. Let me know and we'll figure out a fix. My Amanda called me to say the two wouldn't play on her four year old DVD player Saturday. (They did play on Shawn, her husbands, Playstation II!) BTW, Amanda was taking the orders during Recital. Shawn was operating the other camera.

The inserts for the DVD slimline covers were printed directly (mostly) onto the paper that came with the TDK slimeline case. The printer was an HP Deskjet 1012 set to 1200dpi and FastRes turned off. I used the 'card stock' setting as well.

The insert pictures were printed using a Kodak Printer Dock using 'natural' color setting during printout. The Recital pic came directly from the video at the time. The Grease was actually done in the studio during dress rehersal that Friday before. Thanks to Jessica for proofing the DVD's and Becky for the handouts used on the back cover and Grease artwork on the front cover.