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Re: Is DVD-Audio more expensive for publishers?

Authoring a DVD-A can be expensive because of the extras that could be included on DVD-A. The mastering house will have to spend more time on the 2 or 3 extra tracks (hi-res 2-channel, hi-res multichannel, DD or DTS), as well as any video, bonus material, and artwork, along with an accompanying CD release. Gathering all this together, mastering them, and testing them out takes a lot of time. For example, multichannel tracks are listened to two channels at a time through headphones in the QA process.

Charlie Watts from Enterprise Mastering estimates between 29 to 62 hours per title with several people involved, and good mastering engineers are certainly not cheap. At Surround Pro 3 years ago, he showed us a big flowchart for an entire DVD-A release, which was necessary just to make sure they kept everything organized, because there was so much to do.

Note that all of this is entirely before the manufacturing phase.

--Andre

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