Look at what I came upon today while going through some stuff! A D-Card we made back in 2000!

These Digital Business Cards are fully-interactive CD-ROMs in a card-sized package. They came in lots of shapes like footballs, rectangles, circles, octagons and more. The writable area was limited by the narrowest side of the card.

Ours has a total of 37.6 MB on it... nearly the max! Soooo much thought had to go into the graphical content, programming and video file size to even pull this off. Our video is a mostly compatible 33.5 MB AVI file, 320x240 pixels, at 549 kbps, 15 frames per second, audio is 352 kbps, mono, sampled at only 22.050 kHz. Encoding was much more of an art form back then. Not to mention it probably took 30 minutes to encode that file as computers were not what they are now. I remember blank authoring CDs costing around $12 each and when you made and error it was lots of lost cash in the trash.

Trying to recall the process & applications used back in the day:

Sony DSR-300 DVCam, Sony DXC-327B with a PVV-3 BetacamSP, PVW-2800 for ingest

• ProMist filters on the lens
• Media 100 editing, probably v4, with the P6000 card
• Adobe After Effects v6
• ZaxWorks 3D
• Adobe Photoshop v5
• MacroMedia Director v7

Have a look at a 720x486 window with a 320x240 video clip. The address, email and website are all new.
YouTube Video: https://youtu.be/jDBHGOrM1hk