Film conversion & DVD authoring for Amplitude Film Festival

August 31st saw The Croyde Deckchair Cinema play host to a new film festival focussing on extreme sports, The Amplitude Film Festival. After 10 month of planning the event was almost cancelled as only 3 tickets had been sold. However he was encouraged to hold out and nearly 100 people att...

Blu-ray authoring & NTSC conversion for IOM TT 2012

Working in collaboration with Eurodiscs in London, Maniac Films have just finished a Blu-ray authoring project of the Isle of Man 2012 TT Motorbike event for UK and US markets. This was our first Dual-Layer Blu-ray for mass replication, and it required buying in special software for the...

Multiple PAL to NTSC DVD conversions for Eurodiscs

We have built a strong relationship with Eurodiscs in London, and we were happy to help when they contacted us with a new task. Their client had supplied them with a collection of 10 DVDs, each containing 3 episodes from a different children's cartoon show, complete with Animated Me...

DVD authoring & printing for short film 'Locked In'

We were approached by film maker Valeria Appel to do some DVD print and duplication for her new short film Locked In We ended up doing a bit more then just duplication after spotting some issues with the sync, and did some re-syncing work and rebuilt the original time line at 25p and conv...

DVD authoring & artwork design for Revitalising Yoga

Revitalising Yoga has been available to buy on-line for some time, but with an upcoming release in the US, director David Gilliam decided it was time for a refresh of the artwork. Our brief was to add logos to the start of the existing film, author the DVD with brand new animated menus an...

Plymouth Recycling DVD authoring for Twofour

In another collaboration with South West TV production company Twofour in Plymouth, we have just completed the authoring of a new DVD to promote recycling and wasting less in Plymouth. The film was supplied by TwoFour, and we created menu artwork before authoring. The disk art...

DVD and Blu-ray authoring for Fred Olsen Cruise lines and Twofour

Working with South West TV production company Twofour in Plymouth, Maniac Films have provided both DVD and Blu-ray authoring for a promotional video for Fred Olsen cruise line. Working with the film supplied by Twofour and our own menu artwork, we encoded the video, built the menu ...

Live video editing and CD & DVD authoring for Steve Tucker

Steve Tucker, frontman for Steve Tucker's All Star Jazz Band, brought us a pile of tapes containing live recordings of two recent band performances. Our task was to create a live DVD from these tapes and also encode individual tracks for Youtube As part of the project we visited Ilfra...

O'Kalem Collection DVD build project for IFI completed

Maniac Films in North Devon have been working hard to complete a DVD project for the Irish Film Institute (IFI). The O'Kalem Collection is a rare glimpse into the film archives, showing for the 1st time in many years, a series of films made by the Kalem Film Company between 1910-1915. ...

North Devon Movie Bus DVD's go on sale

Is it really a year since we started on the Movie Bus project? Time moves so quickly. Almost a year to the day since Emma Giffard contacted us for editing tuition and assistance with producing the 1st movie bus film, two compilation DVD's have just gone on sale. Each DVD contains 4 ...

Max Adventures web-flash CD ROM for Unilever

We have been working hard at Maniac Films in Devon to finish a mixed web/flash game DVD ROM for Unilever. The project is called 'Max Adventures' and ties in with an animated TV series shown in 33 countries. It is based on the Lion mascot used to promote Paddle Pop ice cream in A...

DVD authoring for Irish Film Institute GAA Gold Hurling Film

Maniac Films have provided DVD authoring services for an archive film produced by the Irish Film Institute (IFI). The DVD featured archive footage, showing highlights from the All Ireland Hurling Finals 1948-1959 'GAA Gold' The films and artwork were supplied by the Irish Fil...

Aichi 2005 Japan Tour DVD authoring for John Williams and Richard Harvey

In 2005, world renowned guitarist John Williams played at the 2005 expo in Aichi, Japan with composer and musician Richard Harvey. Maniac Films were asked to master the final DVD for production and then for retail sale as they were having problems with the video transfer and quality pro...

Surf into Yoga DVD duplication for Extreme Horizon

This is the latest surf and yoga DVD from Rochelle Ballard. We were asked to assist with the NTSC duplication which included sourcing recyclable DVD cases to fit the eco-friendly philosophy the video producers. The DVD is 85 minutes long and also includes 15 mins of extra features whic...

Yogatic DVD - PAL authoring and replication

We have just completed DVD authoring for the Yogatic, Yoga with Ester Ekhart DVD. The DVD features quite a few individual films, with five different menu's linking to different films for each Yoga lesson/session. The DVD menu's were supplied by the filmmakers, and we added menu sou...

DVD production and replication for Devon Lanes & Longboards

Andy Haworth of Born2Surf came to us with his newly finished longboarding film, Devon Lanes & Longboards, shot at various North Devon beaches like Saunton Sands, and features some of the UK's top longboarders surfing some classic English waves. We provided a professional colour ...

Maniac Films attend the Media Innovation awards 2010

In February, Maniac Films received a nomination for another Media Innovation Award, (our fourth nomination, two of which we previously won!). We were nominated for an award in the 'Best DVD' category, and so we drove down to the St Mellion International Resort, Cornwall for a sl...

DVD cover design for 'A Days Work' short film by Mark Fortune

We were contacted by director Mark Fortune in regard to designing the DVD cover and disk on-body print for his latest short film, A Days Work. Using a rough layout from the director as a basis the disc box cover underwent a number of revisions and test prints before we arrived at the fi...