NTSC DVD conversion and DVD duplication for The Maniac Project film

The Maniac Project is a low budget (made for £500) grind-house style , exploitation comedy film created over 3 years by director N. Andrew Elliot and produced by Darren Horne. The film won an award in California at The Accolade film festival and has been doing well ever since. Darre...

Plymouth Recycling DVD authoring for Twofour

In another collaboration with Twofour in Plymouth, we have just completed the authoring of a dvd to promote recycling. The film was supplied by TwoFour and we created menu artwork before authoring. The disk artwork and the layout for the recycled cardboard packaging was designed here at ...

DVD and Blu-ray authoring for Fred Olsen Cruise lines and Twofour

Working with Twofour in Plymouth, Maniac Films have provided dual DVD and Blu-ray authoring for a promotional video for Fred Olsen cruise line. Working with the film supplied by Twofour and our own menu artwork, we encoded the video, built the menu structure and created the final dvd for ...

Live video editing and CD & DVD authoring for Steve Tucker

Steve Tucker, frontman for Steve Tucker's All Star Jazz Band, brought us a pile of tapes containing live recordings of two recent band performances. Our task was to create a live DVD from these tapes and also encode individual tracks for Youtube As part of the project we visited Ilfra...

CD print & duplication for StevieRay in time for Goldcoast

Local singer/songwriter Stevie Ray Latham has just completed the recording of his first album, titled 'modern attitudes' and this weekend he will be performing at Goldcoast Oceanfest in Croyde. In preparation for his upcoming performance, Stevie Ray came to us to make use of our d...

O'Kalem Collection DVD build project for IFI completed

We have been working hard to complete a DVD project for the Irish Film Institute (IFI). The O'Kalem Collection is a rare glimpse into the film archives, showing for the 1st time in many years, a series of films made by the Kalem Film Company between 1910-1915. We were sent the finishe...

North Devon Movie Bus DVD's go on sale

Is it really a year since we started on the Movie Bus project? Time moves so quickly. Almost a year to the day since Emma giffard contacted us for editing tuition and assistance with producing the 1st movie bus film, two compilation DVD's have just gone on sale. Each DVD contains 4 of...

GAA Gold film is second best selling sports DVD in 2010

In October we completed work on the GAA Gold DVD in collaboration with Eurodiscs. We provided DVD authoring services for the film that was produced by the Irish Film Institute (IFI). GAA Gold, which featured archive footage of the All Ireland Hurling Finals 1948-1959, was the 2nd biggest ...

The Shadows dual-layer DVD duplication and cover printing for Great Torrington School

Marcos, the Performing Arts technician at Great Torrington School has been helping students from the school to write and star in their own film. The result is 'The Shadows', a 75minute thriller set in and around the school buildings. The film was shot and edited by the students an...

Max Adventures web-flash CD ROM for Unilever

We have been working with Eurodiscs to finish a mixed web/flash game DVD ROM for Unilever. The project is called 'Max Adventures' and ties in with an animated tv series shown in 33 countries. It is based on the Lion mascot used to promote Paddle Pop ice cream in Australia. The gam...

DVD authoring for Making A Difference project

We have just finished authoring a DVD for The Devon Learning and Development Partnership. The DVD features four short films showing the work carried out in schools to help children from other countries to integrate into English schools. Here at Maniac we designed DVD menus, created credi...

DVD authoring for Irish Film Institute GAA Gold film

In another collaboration with Eurodiscs, we have provided DVD authoring services for a film produced by the Irish Film Institute (IFI). The DVD featured archive footage, showing highlights from the All Ireland Hurling Finals 1948-1959. The films and artwork were supplied by the IFI. We a...

Aichi DVD authoring for John Williams and Richard Harvey

In 2005, world renowned guitarist John Williams played at the 2005 expo in Aichi, Japan with composer and musician Richard Harvey. We were asked to master the final DVD for production and then retail. This included creating working menus using the designs from the client and implementing ...

Surf into Yoga DVD duplication for Extreme Horizon

This is the latest surf and yoga DVD from Rochelle Ballard. We were asked by Matt from Extreme Horizons to assist with the NTSC duplication which included sourcing recyclable DVD cases to fit the eco-friendly philosophy of many surfers. The DVD is 85 minutes long and also includes 15 mins...

Yogatic DVD - PAL authoring and replication

We have just completed authoring for the Yogatic, Yoga with Ester Ekhart DVD. The DVD featured quite a few individual films, with five different menu's linking to different films for each Yoga lesson/session. The DVD menu's were supplied by the film makers and we added menu sound, ...

Astronomers and Fettu-share DVD authoring and Duplication

Matt Biggs from Artaura Productions sent us two DVD's with artwork from some recent projects. We provided him with our DVD authoring and duplication service using printing the disk images onto watershield DVD's for a cleaner finish. The disks were packaged inside transparent ...

Musicc DVD authoring and duplication for Artaura

We have been working with Matt Biggs from Artaura Productions on another of his DVD projects. We provided a DVD authoring and duplication service for Matt, using watershield DVD's to provide a superior printed finish for the disk. The disks were packaged inside standard dvd cases wit...

DVD production and replication for Devon Lanes & Longboards

Andy Haworth of Born2Surf came to us with his newly finished longboarding film, Devon Lanes & Longboards, shot at various North Devon beaches and features some of the UK's top longboarders. Andy brought the film to us and we did a basic colour grade, retimed the slo-mo sections a...