Tark Communications Ltd

The Tongariro Natural History Society, Department of Conservation and the Taupo Museum engaged Tark Comunications to produce an educational DVD on Mt Ruapehu's eruptions of 1995-1996 and the subsquent preparations for and responses to the lahar of 18 March 2007.

• More than 5000 photos were culled down to about 350
• hours of video reduced to about 30 minutes of mainly television news footage.
• powerpoint presentations
• less than half the storage capacity of a DVD was used
• suitable software had to be found to combine the multimedia elements
• DVD is menu driven
• the DVD designed to be graphically pleasing and easy to navigate.

Examples where you might use a CD or DVD include:

• business reports, strategies and manuals (menu driven)

• family records or photographs (photographs can be orgnaised into galleries)

• video - family or business (we have the facilities to edit video)

• a mix of music, video, photographs and documents