Distribution formats

How should I distribute the final programme?

Part of the pre-production planning we carry out involves identifying your audience and assessing the viewing environment and equipment. From this assessment, we recommend the most suitable distribution formats.

DVD
With DVD the image and sound quality is exceptional and DVD players are now commonplace in the home and office. A significant benefit of DVD is that the image quality remains high even when projecting the programme onto a large screen in a conference venue.

Unlike traditional videotape, where you had to shuttle backwards and forwards, DVD’s can be ‘chapterised’, allowing the viewer to instantly access pre-selected points within the programme. Also foreign language versions can easily be selected.

Furthermore, the emergence of the Blu-ray disc has enabled viewers to experience programmes in stunning high definition.

Podcasts
We can create content suitable for podcasting to handheld, mobile devices such as MP3 players, mobile phones, personal computers and MP4 players such as iPods for viewing at the user's convenience.Click here for more information.

Video on the Web
At Take One Productions we are able to ‘stream’ video over the Internet, or your company’s intranet, live to PC and Mac users worldwide. Alternatively, we can archive the material and stream it from our dedicated CDN video server where it can be viewed at any time, day or night, worldwide. Click here for more information.

CD
Video can also be transferred onto CD. In this format it can be played in your PC’s Windows Media Player software and can easily be embedded in Power Point presentations. However, there are limitations as to the length of video that can be stored on the CD disc and the quality of the picture if viewed full screen.

A more interactive CD can be designed with graphics, animations, questionnaires, links to websites etc. These are generally known as CD-ROMS – see multimedia for more information.

Videotape
Until a few years ago, videotape was the standard distribution format for all productions, including motion films. However, image quality suffers considerably once the programme is copied to videotape. Although we can still copy programmes onto any videotape format, DVD is generally now the distribution format of choice.