By Charlie White:

In our recent report about the business of wedding videography, a common thread
throughout was the near-universal acceptance of the DVD as a distribution format. But videographers have enough to do, with the shooting, editing and general coddling of their clients. What about the DVD packaging? Won’t it take a lot of time to put together the cover art, the printed DVDs, and the insert material? We found a company in Chicago that takes care of all sorts of DVD packaging needs, and all you have to do is burn the DVD and hand it off to your client!

Chicago Digital is offering a new service it calls Pre-Packaged DVDs, or PPDVDs — where you send the company the information you’d like printed on the DVDs, along with up to seven photos or video grabs, and for $15 they print all the packaging, including the sleeve and on the DVD itself, and send it all back to you, ready to go. But that’s just for the first copy — it’s $9 for each additional package. Of course, if you order in bulk, the price is lower. For example, if you order 200 packages the price is $5 apiece. The twist here is that the printed DVD is a blank DVD-R disk (or DVD+R if you prefer), and you burn your video material onto it. The idea is, you’ve saved the time and effort of designing and packaging the DVD and all you do is burn the DVD and hand it over to the client.

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