DVD Blue-ray question

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Poco

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I'm sorry if this has been covered and I'm sure it has but I can't find a clear answer in the search.
Simple question ... if I export small 720p clip through Compressors DVDHD settings and author through DVDSP's HD setting and burn to a regular DVD and watch on an HD lcd tv through a standard DVD player, will the clip look as good as Blu-ray? Just like Standard DV on a HD screen or somewhere in between?

Thanks
 
A regular dvd player can't play HD....so no. It won't look as good. I doubt you can even burn the file to the dvd. I only know of up-converting dvd players that have an hd output.
 
You can always burn the file to a DVD. A DVD will accept anything. But no standard DVD player will be able to play it.

The DVDHD play might, but without knowing what you actually exported and authored, can't say.
 
I've still got to do some tinkering - here's what I did.

- Exported a DVCProHd self contained file.
- Through Compressor exported a DVDHD H.264 720p file.
- I ran this and the self contained file through DVDSP. DVDSP could read the self contained but not the DVDHD H.264 one.
- Exported an HVDVD_TS folder.

Went into Toast and bought their Blu-ray/HD-DVD plugin. Toast explicitly says that with the plugin you can burn short standard DVD's that can play on the defunct HD-DVD format players. So far so good.

Dug out the HDMI cable, plugged the player to the TV ... and nothing.
"Player cannot read disc. Please insert another disc."

Anyone else been down this road?
 
Your process is not going to work.

DVD SP 4.2 can author HD DVDs for playing on Toshiba A1 HD DVD set tops.

You can author AVCHD DVDs out Toast 9 to DVD5 discs, but playing on any blu ray set top is spotty.

You need a blu ray burner to do this right, and either Toast 9/10 or Encore CS3/4.
 
Ok, to be more specific here's my situation.

I got my first "real" job. A video to promote a huge country club and resort here on the west coast. The only stipulation was it had to be in HD. In fact the deposit from this job was what enabled me to get the HVX so I'm pretty new at work flow.

There's TV screens all over this place plus at the visitors center plus he wants to do mail outs of them. That means Blu-rays everywhere.

Is there a work around for this or is Blu-ray the only way?
I compared my DVX and the HVX side by side on DVD but there wasn't that much difference. This was just around the house though and I haven't had a chance to go out and capture anything majestic to compare.

For this job I need ariel shots and wide panaoramas. Will I notice a difference between the two cameras on regular DVD under those circumstances using WA lenses?

Thanks
 
Sounds like there are multiple considerations here . . . let's break it down just a little.
For the "TV screens all over this place" I think yes, Blu-ray is going to be your solution.

Regarding mail outs . . . you might consider sending your (final) master off to "Diskmakers" or somebody for duplication? I don't know what flexibility you have with your client but the economics of mailing DVD's instead of Blu-ray discs should be an important consideration (for them).

True, you (or he/she) will be sending SD if they go with DVD's instead but you'll all avoid most incompatability issues by going this route . . . and if you've got your selling shoes on you'll come up a winner for steering the client in the right direction.

Hope you haven't painted yourself into a corner.

Best.
 
Poco not sure if this will solve your problem but you CAN create a Blu-Ray DVD using a standard DVD disc media and burner using Toast, you DO NOT need a Blu-ray burner. But for playback you will need a Blu-Ray player.

The question is does your client want to send out Blu-Ray or SD disc ? In the resort they can control the playback and fortunetly BD players are pretty cheap so feeding a bunch of TV's should be a problem.

Note the one drawback is you can only get about 20 minutes of Blu-ray content on a standard DVD media.

Lee
 
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