Do you need an HD DVD burner, to put HD film footage onto DVD?

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I was wondering if im shooting on a P2 card and then want to make a DVD for a client, do i have to have an HD burner or will a regular DVD burner work? and also what are the other tools or equipment needed to produce an HD DVD?

thanks!
 
want to make a DVD for a client
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are you talking a dvd just as a means of transferring data, OR for them to be able to watch the footage in HD?

what are the other tools or equipment needed to produce an HD DVD?
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well, considering that HD DVD no longer exists, its blu ray youre going to want. and yes. you will need a blu ray burner and blu ray authoring software.and of course blu ray discs
 
Actually you can burn h.264 footage to a regular DVD (with the right software) and play it back in a blu-Ray player. Won't work in a regular DVD player, obviously, and you're limited to something like 30 minutes, but it can be done.
 
yes i want the client to be able to view it on her "blu-ray player" so if i went from P2 formant from my camera to FCP on my computer then to produce the P2 footage to DVD, i would have to have a blu ray burner, am i right about that process? and by the way how much do they cost?
 
if you want to make an actual blu-ray disk, you'd need a blu-ray burner. But you can make blu-ray-compatible discs on regular DVDs with a regular DVD-burner. You have to author and burn it as an "AVCHD Disc" and you're limited to 20 minutes on a single-layer, or 40 minutes on a dual-layer DVD.
 
FCP 7 and Compressor 3.5 will do one track AVCHD discs that work with out Panasonic blu ray player using red laser dye SD DVDs.
 
Adobe Encore supports Blue ray.

I haven't actually done any Blue ray encoding but I understand that you can do lots of nice extra things like interact with the remote control at any point during the movie rather than just within the menus.
 
You will need a Bluray burner to burn BD that playback in set top bluray player. Good thing is, they aren't expensive anymore.

LG BluRay Burner is about $150.
Blank BD Disc is abotu $5 each
BluRay Player is about $100

I have been outputing BD and DVD both. Author in Encore CS4, then export in both format.
http://lacolorshop.com/blog/view.asp?id=47

DVD has Root Menu and Title Menu. However, for BD, you only have Main Menu and Popup Menu. It's a little different in authoring them. I have made a Popup Menu for CS4 you can download here.
http://lacolorshop.com/blog/view.asp?id=38

I also have DVD cover templates and BD cover template you can download here
http://lacolorshop.com/blog/view.asp?id=66
 
Taky said:
You will need a Bluray burner to burn BD that playback in set top bluray player.
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Not strictly true. To burn on a Blu-ray disc, yes, you'd need a BD burner. But you can burn an AVCHD disc on a regular DVD burner, and it'll play in HD on a Blu-ray player. The only big restriction on it is running time; 20 minutes for a single-layer, 40 minutes for a dual-layer.

If you want to burn full-length movies or anything longer than about 40 minutes, yes you'd need to get a Blu-Ray burner.
 
Barry_Green said:
Not strictly true. To burn on a Blu-ray disc, yes, you'd need a BD burner. But you can burn an AVCHD disc on a regular DVD burner, and it'll play in HD on a Blu-ray player. The only big restriction on it is running time; 20 minutes for a single-layer, 40 minutes for a dual-layer.

If you want to burn full-length movies or anything longer than about 40 minutes, yes you'd need to get a Blu-Ray burner.
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It is still true that "You will need a Bluray burner to burn BD that playback in set top bluray player." :happy:
 
Yes, to burn a BD, you are correct. But to burn a disc that plays in a settop bluray player, you wouldn't need a BD burner to burn an AVCHD disc, and that AVCHD disc will play in a settop bluray player. Well, most of them at least; there's no real guarantee on compatibility I guess.
 
I remember it's like when DVD first came out, there're things called Mini-DVD that burns 10 minutes of 720x480 video on a regular CD that can be played back on certain model of DVD player. Those were the days. There is no guarantee compatibility.

There're other methods to burn a disc to play back on set top bluray player. But that doesn't make my statement wrong. You still need a BD burner to burn a BD disc. =)
 
But to burn a disc that plays in a settop bluray player, you wouldn't need a BD burner to burn an AVCHD disc, and that AVCHD disc will play in a settop bluray player. Well, most of them at least; there's no real guarantee on compatibility I guess.
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SERIOUSLY? why is this kind of half-assery even being discussed? its not like proper blu-ray burning is THAT expensive...
 
wgzn said:
SERIOUSLY? why is this kind of half-assery even being discussed? its not like proper blu-ray burning is THAT expensive...
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Um, because it was a direct answer to the O.P.'s question?

It's known as an AVCHD disc, it's a perfectly legitimate format, and it does exactly what the OP was asking about -- it lets you put HD content on a regular DVD using a regular DVD player. It's not a hack or workaround, it's a legitimate format.
 
Taky said:
You will need a Bluray burner to burn BD that playback in set top bluray player. Good thing is, they aren't expensive anymore.
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Yep, when I had my new editing PC - what must be best part of a year ago - I included Blue Ray burner. Never used it so far - but at least it's there if the need arises. (At least I hope it is!)
 
wgzn said:
can anyone say KLUDGE!
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Actually they look pretty good, and clients like them to take a quick look at the edit.

You don't need a blu ray burner to create the AVCHD disc; it is high definition; looks really good; and it doesn't cost much money at all given that you use SD DVDs.

We've had both a Sony and Panasonic blu ray set top, and the most part they've had problems with AVCHD discs.

AVCHD is a HD format. We can also play AVCHD recorded SDHC card footage directly in the Panasonic.
 
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