Creating a jewel box label/cover

Hi Linda,

well.... I stumble over nice looking...
beauty is in the eye of the beholder? 😉

you get all kind of "templates" on the net, which fit into the cases, but that wasn't your question, right?

for me, nice means simple, plain, clean.... what is the key visual of your movie? "a day in the zoo" could show the enterance, "white wedding" shows Billy Idol... oops, no, bride and bridegroom... so, what is telling the story of hte movie with a single frame? what is the title of the movie?



... just as an example, clean vs. .... "colorful"

have a look at movie posters or have a look in the iDVD templates to get inspired....
for the "tech inlet", what chapters, credits, used music etc I would use templates, search the net for jewel box inlets/cover....

Hi Linda,
thanks for your compliments, just a quick'n dirty 5min photoshopjob... 😉

googling "templates dvd cover" gives zillion of templates; it depends on what app your using for creating your covers.... Apple users probably are little handicapped.....

but in most design software, you're able to create "own templates", so you just have to measure&paint once the borders/crease lines; and some manufacturers of software offer on their webiste templates; for Apple's Pages I just found this: http://www.macosxhints.com/article.php?story=20050321134503738

Hi Linda:

Just to add a bit to Karsten's great advice, would this help any?

http://www.newenglandcd.com/downloads/cd-jewel-insert.htm

Sue

Sue,

you get a
from me! VERY good link (so many formats!)

Ah Kartsen...if it were only that easy to give points to the helpful! No one seems to come back to let us know if we help!

Oh, well...

🙂 still love  discussions!

Sue

Hello Linda:

So sorry to hear of your poor weather, but so glad to hear back from you!

We appreciate all feedback here at discussions. That way we can help others that have similar situations.

Again-my pleasure-

Sue

Linda,

I was going to recommend Discus, if no one else did. It's very nice for jewel boxes and CD labels.

However, be warned: After you have made a very nice looking peel-and-stick DISC label, and stuck it on your DVD, some 'home' DVD players (the ones connected to your potential audience's TVs) may not be able to play back your DVD.

I have never had any playback problems with labeled audio CDs, but after distributing about 20 labeled DVDs, I got reports back that 3 or 4 had playback problems - usually reported as 'sticking' or just stopping. After much troubleshooting and research, I believe the problem was due to my peel-and-stick labels.

Several theories are circulating - perhaps the labels cause a slight unbalance, and because home units have less sophisticated error correction than computer DVD players, they are easily overwhelmed by small tracking errors???

Safest to use only the little silver-dollar sized ('hub') labels with DVDs, or get a printer which will print directly on the discs.

-GW

Linda--

Let me repeat, do not use anything that is "stick on", even if it's just silver dollar size.

T.