Burning Hd Dvd

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Just got a hi def tv. Wondering if anyone has any experience burning a hd dvd. Such as blue ray of their hvx200 footage. I understand its a fairly new and expensive process. But i am sure someone here has tried it. Curious how it looks. Because this standard def viewing on a hd monitor sucks balls.

thanks
 
There are dozens of posts on this.

I regularly encode DVCProHD footage to h.264 and ac3/dolby2 audio and author HD DVDs in DVD SP 4.x on a Mac and burn to red laser dye DVD5s.

Play beautifully on a Toshiba HD DVD A1 through HDMI on a Pioneer Elite plasma
 
David

How good is the hvx200 footage when corverted to a hd dvd and viewed on a hd tv?
 
Comcast cable installers have viewed it on our Samsung, and Pioneer Elite.

They tell me that it looks as good, if not better, than cable HD.
 
I'm currently working on a short movie shot with the HVX.

Even with Raylight my Windows PC and Premeire CS3 I'm not really able to get good previews as I work. Nothing against these products, I just probably need a more powerful computer.

So with CS3 Premiere and Encore I end up burning a "blu-ray" disc every day or two and watch it back on my Samsung Blu-Ray player and HDTV.

Things look great. My movie is shot in 720 24pn. Occaisionally with high-contrast diagonal lines I can see stair-stepping, but that's when I'm sitting fairly close. Mostly things look very pleasing.

The cool thing is -- and this won't necessarily work with all setups, I might just be lucky with the Samsung player -- I burn the Blu-Ray directories to an ordinary DVD-R. The short will fit -- it is short, after all -- and as long as I keep the bit-rate below 13 mbps things seem to play back smoothly.

And DVD-Rs are cheap! I can afford to burn a copy and preview any time I want. I don't even own a blu-ray drive, although I have burned some real BD discs on a borrowed drive and they worked OK as well.

Dipping my toes into the HVX/Blu-ray water has been pretty painless so far.
 
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MPEG2. The H.264 option is there but Ihaven't tried it yet.

I've been burning to 720p MPEG-2 at 23.976 fps, 13 mbps CBR.
 
David S. said:
There are dozens of posts on this.

I regularly encode DVCProHD footage to h.264 and ac3/dolby2 audio and author HD DVDs in DVD SP 4.x on a Mac and burn to red laser dye DVD5s.

Play beautifully on a Toshiba HD DVD A1 through HDMI on a Pioneer Elite plasma
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I know you can vary the compression ratio and change the times, but for a reasonably good looking video, how much playback time can you fit?


Bob Diaz
 
You can get 90 minutes of 6.75 mbps h.264 with Dolby2 audio on a DVD5.

It looks fabulous.

You also can get about 60 minutes at 10.3 mbps with Dolby2.

I can see a difference.

My wife cannot.
 
Try giving her a cubic zirconium ring -- she'll be able to tell the difference while you can't! (c8
 
will burning to a hd dvd such as blue ray help in reducing compression artifacts and grain?
 
Both BluRay and HD DVD also support VC1. I don't know of any authoring tools that support it, however.
 
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