In Search of Darkness 1990-1994 Blu-ray AuthoringWe have been busy working again with Creator VC on their documentary feature film In Search of Darkness 1990-1994 to turn it into a very full dual layer Blu-ray for release to their backers. The amazing documentary follows on from their 1980s horror genre films and splits the horror movies of the 1990s into two sections allowing for another 1995-1999 Blu-ray to come out later. Watch the trailer linked above to get a flavour of this movie or watch direct via YouTube on this link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i6FGjqxUEWE
Mark at Maniac Films designed the Blu-ray playback around a set of pop-up chapter menus like the one below - allowing you to navigate by year and then by each movie within each year as well as navigating to extra features. We encoded the long-form video content and then spent a lot of time reworking subtitles to move them into place around on-screen titles for English and Spanish subtitles. Example movies covered in this era include Frankenhooker, Stephen Kings IT, The Silence of the Lambs, Candyman, Ghostwatch, Natural Born Killers and Interview with a Vampire.
Mark prebuilt the motion menus in November while awaiting the final 6 hour documentary, with the final subtitle work positioning around onscreen titles and encoding and final QC in December against the final master. This included adding META data for consoles like Playstation to allow an image icon to appear on the console when the Blu-ray is inserted. Once the Blu-ray was signed off, Maniac Films encoded the BDCMF master for replicating the discs into the many copies printed and shipped to the original film backers.
We have been working with Creator VC on a number of long-form documentary Blu-ray projects including Aliens Expanded and FPS First Person Shooter Documentary and plans are afoot for an Aliens Expanded Collectors Edition and more In Search of Darkness titles.
For more information, see on our Blu-ray authoring and BDCMF services, then get in touch to discuss your next Blu-ray or DCP conversion. We provide specialist BDCMF conversion from BDMV and Blu-ray iso images to allow you to get your film replicated for commercial sale as well as full Blu-ray disc authoring services.
