Edit - Master - Deliver HD projects

[toddeastman]

Now that cameras are shooting, I wanted to start a discussion about how best to edit/master/deliver this great HD footage to clients.

Does any particular EDITING time base work better in certain delivery cases (DVD, HD-DVD, Blu-Ray, SD Broadcast, HD Broadcast)? Is there a website with the criteria for these?

I shot some 720p/24 native footage and threw it on a DVD to see what would happen. The result looked like the encoder interlaced the footage. The motion looked fine but the image looked like garbage.

Thanks everybody.

 

[Barry_Green]

How did you make the DVD? If you edited on a 24p timeline and output a 24P DVD it should do a frame-accurate DVD with no interlacing at all.

 

[toddeastman]

My inital test used iDVD......looking for a quick way to burn footage. Then I moved up.

At this point I have output a 720p/24 timeline to a Quicktime. Then used Compressor to make an MPEG-2 file. The file plays fine on the computer through VLC. I have not had a chance to burn it with DVD Studio Pro and check it in the home player.

Compressor recogized the progressive Quicktime and the 23.98 frame rate. I just chose the High Quality DVD setting (not the HD DVD settings). Like I said, the file plays fine. Compressor seems to have scaled the video to 720x404. Not sure how 16x9 would work in compressor with HD footage yet.