#CD Mastering
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The local school(latest Mac equipment) has received a grant to produce a CD ROM
on Hawaiian fauna. The kids will take shots with a Cannon camera and use
Supercard as their front end driver, mixing images, text, and sounds for a
catalog of Big Island life.Although Macs will probably be the largest initai
market, I'm not so sure on Supercard. Is a run time license available? And what
if after the initial production run they want to convert to an IBM (whoa boy
Microsoft!)ISO 9 X X X X standard?
Also any hints on which CD Mastering companies to call? And what media
standards the mastering outfits are accepting for production runs? The school
has tentaively committed to a NuDesign/MOST 3.5" 128MB optical by MacDirect for
storage. Maybe a 600 meg hard drive and ship them the whole shibang is a better
alternative?
We've ordered the book on CD ROM production from APDA. I don't know if it will
answer the above questions. Any help or literature would be appreciated.
Regards,
Dan Roudebush
75530,2505
AppleLink:Easy
77-6384 Halawai Street
Kailua-Kona, HI 96740
Tel: 808-326-2025
Fax: 808-326-7624
Dan:
Download the MFG.TXT file for a list of disc makers. As for transfer media, as
far as I know, every mfgr can accept virtually every form of media.
Good luck and please keep us posted!
Rich Bowers
>> The local school(latest Mac equipment) has received a grant to produce a CD
ROM on Hawaiian fauna. The kids will take shots with a Cannon camera and use
Supercard as their front end driver, mixing images, text, and sounds for a
catalog of Big Island life.Although Macs will probably be the largest initai
market, I'm not so sure on Supercard. Is a run time license available? <<
Sounds cool.
>> And what if after the initial production run they want to convert to an IBM
(whoa boy Microsoft!)ISO 9 X X X X standard? <<
ISO-9660 is an international standard for use on ALL platforms. MSCDEX
(Microsoft) simply provides a DOS rendition of the CD contents.
Ernie
Yeah I forgot.
I went to the ist CD RO conference 5-6 years ago in Gatesville and must have
choked on the shrimp.I think it was High Sierra or something like that.
Thanks for the reminder.
Dan Roudebush
Easy
Hi Dan,
Your message mentioned a "book on CD ROM production from APDA". Can you
send me the exact name, author, and publisher of the book? I'd like to get
a copy of it. Any ordering info you have would be helpful, too.
Thanks.
– Eric
Dan,
SuperCard probably does have a runtime version — but since software publishers
can change their license agreements from time to time your best bet is to call
them and ask. Supercard does work well on CD if you follow some basic
guidelines. Remember that a CD-ROM is inherently a "locked disc" so any
temporary files must be directed to another destination. If you have questions
about this the people at Supercard may be able to help you, or you can call the
One-Off CD Shop at 800-387-1633. We have people who have done this kind of
development successfully.
As a CD-ROM service bureau owner, I can affirm what Rich said about media — we
will work with whatever you have. There are some formats that make more sense
than others, however, and the fewer pieces of media you send us, the better
price you'll get. Exabyte tape is probably the best, but the drives are very
expensive. Colorado Jumbo tapes are also good, and they are inexpensive.
Buying a large hard disk in order to ship it is not the best solution. They
are a bit too fragile to trust your data to for most shipping methods. They're
heavy, too. A removable hard disk (Syquest) is better if you really want a
hard disk solution. I'd recommend the Colorado tape for your purpose.
Kathy <<– The One-Off CD Shop MidSouth, Inc.
Mahalo nui loa for the info.
Please sent literature on your services along with pricing.
What is "Colorado tape". DAT? Who makes the drive and media.Cost ?
Regards,
Dan Roudebush
Easy
77-6384 Halawai Street
Kailua-Kona, HI 96740
And mahalo for asking for more info!
I'll get an info sheet out to you. (If you want to wait a month or
so, I could hand-carry it <g> — we're going to be out your direction
in April. My husband has some meetings, and I have a consulting job
at U of HI Manoa, and we're going to visit a friend in Kailua-Kona in
fact.)
The Colorado tape I mentioned is Mountain Systems' Colorado Jumbo (150
or 250) cartridge backup tape. The 250 model is probably preferable,
since it has larger capacity (250 MB, compressed with software that
comes with the drive.) I think you can get the 250 for about $250 –
$300 retail. Try looking in ComputerShopper, or any good computer
store should be able to get one for you. I think they have different
interfaces for different systems, but don't quote me. It's not SCSI,
as far as I know. The one I just had my engineer order works on the
PC floppy drive controller, but it's an internal model. If you
bought an external drive, you might ask for a SCSI interface to work
with your Macs. It's slow, but reasonably reliable. They are very
popular for backup systems. The low price helps.
Aloha,
Kathy <<– The One-Off CD Shop MidSouth, Inc.