• Fully Automated DVD Creation & Production – Using RocketDVD virtually takes the human element out of the physical DVD production process. Using our intuitive user interface, your users can setup and launch a DVD authoring and production project in a matter of minutes. Once the project is launched RocketDVD performs all the necessary tasks to create the DVD including; Capturing and Encoding your video, creating a comprehensive menu (from your custom menu theme selection), creating an optional custom disc label, prints an optional custom DVD case wrap, and prints your DVD insert for chapter selections. All of this is done without any further human intervention. In addition, you can direct the RocketDVD software to create a physical DVD on a local DVD writer or send the DVD project to a desktop DVD Duplicator/Printing system (i.e. Premiera Bravo Series).
• Point & Click User Interface – We have designed our user interface with the look and feel of a standard video deck including deck like intuitive controls such as; Start, Stop and Pause. In addition, all other controls are clearly marked and tied to a comprehensive context sensitive help file so that you’re never more than a simple button click away from application help. The benefit is that your users will be able to master the use of RocketDVD Professional in a matter of minutes.
• Variable Text Insertion – Part of the DVD project indentification includes entering optional Tile, Subtitle and Date range information. This information can be automatically transferred and inserted into the DVD disc label, DVD Casewrap, DVD insert and rendered into your DVD menu page assets. You get full control over the font, color and size for this text on each separate asset. This enables you to create generic menu theme and print assets but still create a DVD that looks custom. Whether you’re making one or many DVDs.
• First Play - This feature lets you include a "First Play" video on the DVD. First Play videos are often used for FBI warnings or to promote additional video titles or services offered by the DVD producer. We've also included User Operation Enable/Disable feature so you can choose to force the viewing of the First Play video if necessary.
• Direct DV Capture - Capture your video directly from any DV Camera or VTR Deck. All you need is an available Firewire port on your PC. We've also included full deck control via Firewire and we've added segment capture with complete markin/markout capabilities so you can actually perform a linear edit on your DV tape while creating the DVD project in realtime!
• Analog Video/Audio Capture - Using an optional Viewcast Osprey Video Capture card you can create DVD titles directly from any analog video (Composite and S-Video) sources.
• Dolby AC3 Audio Encoding – From the Encoding menu you can select either Stereo AC3 or MPEG Audio for the audio encoding format. Dolby AC3 is the most widely accepted audio format for the U.S. market and insures compatibility with all commercially available DVD players manufactured today. MPEG Audio is the most common format used in the European market however all players must support AC3 as a minimum to comply with the DVD Video specification.
• Segment Encoding – This feature gives you have the ability to pause and restart the video capture as necessary. Each time you do the system will automatically place a chapter marker a the beginning of the next video segment and this marker will show up as a scene selection on your DVD menu (if you’re making a DVD with a menu) or as a chapter point if your using chapters without a menu. This is useful for compiling multiple tapes on to one DVD, as a rough editing method or to force a chapter point on the DVD while you’re encoding. The resulting Video and Audio segment files will be saved in the work directory and when the DVD is created they will be concatenated into one contiguous Video file for playback on the DVD.
• Automatic project Archival – Once a project is run RocketDVD saves all of the raw files used to create the DVD in a “work” folder using the projectid entered with the project as the folder name and saves to project creation file in a “project” folder. This enables you to easily recall a project by hitting the “Load project” button and re-make the DVD including all of the print assets without having to recapture the video and audio. This is also useful as a method of creating project templates that have specific encoding and DVD creation parameters saved in them.
• DVD Authoring Selections – You can choose to make a DVD with menu, Once play DVD or a Continuous or Looped DVD format. If you choose DVD with menu you are presented with an opportunity to call your custom pre-defined menu theme and the theme is displayed at the bottom of the selection window for review.
• Custom Chapter Selections - With any one of the DVD type choices selected you have the ability to apply a variety of comprehensive chapter methods to your DVD including: Arbitrary number of chapters, Arbitrary chapter length (in seconds), Smart Chapter selection (this uses our proprietary Algorithm to find actual scene changes on the DVD and adds additional chapter points in between scenes for enhanced navigation. This is particularly beneficial for home movies and low action video such as corporate presentations.), Scene change only, Custom Chapters (this feature allows you to enter in time codes, bitmaps and custom text for each chapter on the DVD) and one chapter per segment.

RocketDVD Prosumer addresses the unigue needs of both Professional Videographers and Consumers alike. We've included a number of advanced features that enable the Videographer to create Professional DVD Titles while allowing the Consumer to quickly and easily convert their home movies to DVD.

Consumers - RocketDVD is probably the easiest and fastest way to convert your existing Home Movie and Video Collections to DVD. We've included 12 professionally created menu themes and project templates (includes; Births, Birthdays, Home Movies, Sports, Vacations and Weddings) with our software that enable you to immediately create professional DVDs from your Home Movies with just a few mouse clicks. It literally takes a few minutes to setup and start creating your first DVD. RocketDVD comes with a comprehensive "Quickstart" guide that leads you through creating your first DVD with simple and easy to follow instructions. Of course we also include comprehensive user manuals for both RocketDVD and MenuMaker for those people who want to completely customize their DVD titles.

Professional Videographers – There are a variety of market applications that can be addressed using RocketDVD including: Event Videography, Corporate Video, Government Video, Educational Video, Religeous Video and Home Video. For professional DVD authoring, customization and personalization is the key to creating a comprehensive product that your customers will appreciate. However customizing and personalizing a DVD using traditional DVD Authoring tools can be very labor intensive and can greatly reduce your profit margins. RocketDVD uses a series of advanced features such as Variable Text Insertion, Menu Themes and Project Templates to greatly reduce the amount of time needed to produce a custom DVD for your clients. Our Menu Themes feature is a completely unique approach to DVD Authoring that allows you to create a professional Menu Theme for each customer and re-use this theme each time you need to create a DVD for them. With the Variable Text Insertion feature, each DVD created is customized with the titling information pertaining to that particular video automaically including the menus, the disc label and a DVD casewrap. We give you complete freedom to create and customize menu themes using our MenuMaker software. Once you've created a project using your menu theme, you can save this as a project template and easily recall this anytime you need to make a DVD with this menu. Project templates also include your DVD disc label graphics and your DVD casewrap graphics allowing you to create a complete package for your customer with a few simple mouse clicks.

• Corporate Video Departments – Virtually every department in a corporation is using video to communicate with it’s customers today. Whether it’s the sales department communicating with customers or the human resources department communicating issues to the employees they all have video’s that need to be viewed. It’s no secret today that everyone wants DVD not tape to view these videos. If your customer already has their videos captured and on a hard drive, you can use the “Pre-Captured Files” feature, to quickly and efficently create and produce their DVDs.
• Government Video Offices – RocketDVD enables Government agencies to quickly and efficienlty create comprehensive DVD titles. RocketDVD lowers the cost of DVD production by automating the entire process from video capture to the physical creation of the DVD disc. Agencies can now convert their existing Videotape libraries to DVD without having to spend valuable man hours doing so.
• Education – RocketDVD utilizes a simple point and click interface making it perfect for classroom environments. Students and Educators can learn and become proficient with its use in a matter of minutes. In a University or College Admissions application, RocketDVD Professional can make it extremely simple for Admissions personnel to create a custom DVD containing only the information that’s pertinant to the students interests and goals.
• Video Post Production – Post Production houses will appreciate our “Pre-Captured Files” feature that enalbes editors and producers alike to easily produce DVDs from MPEG-2, MPEG-1, AVI, Quicktime and many other video file formats (you must have an appropriate decoder loaded on your system for non-MPEG-2/MPEG-1 file conversion). Just point the RocketDVD system at the files you want, select the menu theme and authoring style you’d like and push our “Authoring” or "Encoding" button on the user interface. The system will retrieve your files, transcode them (if you're using non-DVD compliant files) create the DVD and automatically output it to either a local DVD drive or to an automated desktop DVD Duplicator.
  
• Religious Organizations – As a Religious Organization, you are constantly tasked with getting your message out to your followers in a timely manner. One way to do this is through DVDs. Now you can easily capture and produce DVDs from sermons or special services, and make them available for review or purchase. RocketDVDs simple point and click interface makes it very easy to create professionally authored custom DVDs in just minutes. Now any church employee or volunteer can be trained to produce professional quality DVDs in a matter of minutes.