Best Way to View Edited GH1 Video on HDTV

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xocomil

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How do you view your edited material on HDTV?

I edit on a Macbook Pro so exported file is Prores wrapped in a .mov. Unfortunately I don't have a PS3 ...

Is IDVI to HDMI (with separate sound connection) the best way? Would I then open in QT and play out onto HDTV full screen?
 
It's not easy. The cleanest way is to get a Blu-Ray burner and a Blu-Ray player and make real Blu-Ray disks. This is somewhat expensive but easy to do.

You can try burning HD output to a DVD but there is a lot of dicsussion/confusion about this. Check the Sony Vegas forums for details (there are a lot.) The issue revolves around the firmware in the Blu-Ray player and whether or not it will accept HD format data on DVD media. Also, the Blu-Ray copy protection codes change from time to time. The whole thing is a huge mess.

I have a PS3 so I can play GH1 video directly. However, if I create a Blu-Ray format disk and burn it to a DVD the PS3 sees it not as a playable video disk, but as a data disk from which I can only select and play individual video files. I got an LG Blu-Ray burner ($130) for my PC to fix all that lunacy. I feel it was money well spent.
 
Thanks. I was hoping to find a way without having to buy a Blu Ray player ... plus my mac's dvd burner/player is on the fritz.

Any other suggestions?
 
I use a WDTV Live, approx $100-. It plays AVCHD from my HF100, GH1/3 and 7D. Something like a portable HD or flash drive works very well. The network connection is only 100BaseT, which is not fast enough for HD.
 
+1 for a WDTV, or a TViX, or an Egreat Mediatank or similar. I prefer one with a big built in hard drive to archive everything, but you can stream from your network, or use flash drives, or whatever.
 
Another happy user of Western digital WDTV here!
It supports all hd formats and you don't have to burn dvds or blurays... Just connect your portable hard drive or usb stick and go..
I do not have an HD TV for the moment though :q
 
Optical disks are an evolutionary dead-end. I think they will be replaced by cheapo SD card-type media for physical distribution or high-bandwidth streaming.

So yeah, what's wrong with playing back to HD monitor?
 
svecher said:
So yeah, what's wrong with playing back to HD monitor?
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Okay. So I need a DVI to HDMI to got from Macbook to HDTV. And I need a 3.5mm minijack to HDTV audio in.

The question is, do I then play the Prores .mov file (edited GH1 footage) on Quicktime at full screen, which when connected to the HDTV using the above method will give me full resolution, sharpness, etc?
 
If the TV has a VGA in you should just need a DVI to VGA adaptor...not sure if it will give full quality but it'll look pretty good.
 
Nope. It has HDMI, so I'll get one of those adaptors instead. Hopefully I won't lose any quality!
 
xocomil said:
Okay. So I need a DVI to HDMI to got from Macbook to HDTV. And I need a 3.5mm minijack to HDTV audio in.

The question is, do I then play the Prores .mov file (edited GH1 footage) on Quicktime at full screen, which when connected to the HDTV using the above method will give me full resolution, sharpness, etc?
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Why go through such hassle? I got a nettop more than a year ago. http://www.asrock.com/nettop/index.asp

It plays netflix no problem. It can play edited files from mbp over wired lan. VLC player supports hardware acceleration.
 
Ben_B said:
If the TV has a VGA in you should just need a DVI to VGA adaptor...not sure if it will give full quality but it'll look pretty good.
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This is how I have a 32" Sony HDTV hooked up to PC. Quality is the same when using an HDMI cable.
 
This is what I find hysterical about mac computers - the so called 'king' of video editing is not even blu-ray or avchd friendly... Where as I have been happily playing hacked AVCHD files and burning high bitrate blu-rays with absolute beautiful outstanding quality out of my Win 7 pro 64 box with a ati hd 4870 x2 (2 hd 4870s on one pci-express card) with 4 dvi outputs)

I send dvi output number 3 out to an Epson powerlite 8350 1080p lcd projector to a 14 foot diagonal screen..... and the hacked GH1.3 footage is outstanding... very very close to commercially available blu-rays and I would say many movies I have look better on my setup than when i go to the theater.

The best image I have seen so far is off of the TOY STORY 3 blu-ray and Beauty & the Beast Blu-Ray.. incredible.... as far as live action footage -Moulin Rouge blu-ray is amazing, and I am blown away by the restoration done to Blade Runner the directors cut.

I feel I have my own lucasfilm ranch going on here... and it is a dream I have been going for many years, and it's only getting better.

Another thing - I back up all my blu-rays to hard disc or happily another bd-r with anydvd hd (a program that will not run on macs) - removing all the annoying ads and encryption - so if my discs get scratched I can easily burn another bd-r in about a half hour for a 25gb single layer.. an hour for a dual layer 50gb. I buy optical quantum glossy waterproof bd-r discs and print on them with an epson artisan 710 - and I tell you they are the most outstanding thing you will ever see - far far far better looking than commercial silk screen printed blu-ray discs.
 
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Not the best pictures of my setup as I snapped them quick in low light but you get the idea....

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HDMI is the same thing as DVI but it adds the audio along with the digital video signal and some bullcrap copy protection encryption (which I remove) so a DVI to hdmi adapter (that comes with most good quality graphics cards) does NOT lose any quality. I did tests with ridiculously over priced "super cable" and ended up running a 20 foot hdmi cable with a DVI to hdmi adapter on my output. No signal loss, absolutely stunning perfect film like image with no screen door or artifacts or pixels... I have to literally walk up to a foot away from the screen to see pixels and they are teensy tiny.

There was NO improvement WHATSOEVER to the picture quality with the $100+ hdmi gold cables and my system is calibrated perfectly.....so the overpriced cables thing is a scam... I bought a 20 foot HDMI cable from B&H for $18.99!

http://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/produ...e_HDMI_HDMI_20ST_Standard_Series_HDMI_30.html

That goes from my computer to the projector, and I run the audio digital coax from the computer into a DTS 7.1 surround system.. I am in heaven.

PS: A dedicated computer with a high end graphics card is always going to be a better quality player than a stand alone blu-ray player. For one thing alone, the upscaling processor of say Power DVD or Total Media theater blows away anything a $200 blu-ray box can do... and those who say optical media is obsolete obviously have not watched the picture quality of blu-rays on HUGE displays. They blow all HD streaming services so far out of the water that you can hear the explosions and your face gets wet. I can barely stand to watch netflix HD streaming... I have the blu-ray 3 at a time plan...
 
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+1 for the WDTV .. thats what i got to back up and play HD stuff, I can take that and a portable usb harddrive anyplace and plug into anyones HDMI tv and 1080p niceness :)

Plus the portable or even powered external harddrive can be used as a backup for the original mts files in case i want to edit them in a years time ect, ... and all stuff is in one place = easy to locate ( insert warning about ONLY storing/backing up files to ONE place ) ...
 
I heard a lot of good tings about the WDTV... I don't really have a need for it because I'm in a studio apartment in NYC and don't have any other 'rooms' to send my media too. Lol, the 4 DVI out from my computer are sufficient for a three monitor editing setup and projector out.
 
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