HD material on a regular DVD?

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Paul J.

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Hey there,
This might not be the proper place to post this but I could'nt find a better place for the post.

My question regards the possibility of burning HD content on a regular 4,7gb dvd. I have read in multiple forums that it is possible but no real information has been put in to how.

I understand that if this is possible, regular dvd players can not play the material. this is clear. However appearantly HD-DVD players do understand burned 4.7gb DVD's with HD material on them. Ofcourse the 4.7gb limits the amount of footage that can be storaged on the DVD but if even a few minutes is possible that would be great.

My question is that if it is possible, how exactly could one get a working dvd done? Let's say with and without a NLE. In what format should it be and what dvd burners/programs are up for the job. I heard some version of Nero can do it but this is just stuff I read on a random forum.

If someone has experience and can help me out, would be gratefull!

-Paul
 
I was testing this process yesterday...

Best results I could get:

Shot with a HVX200 to P2, cut in Premiere CS 3.1. Then I "Exported to BluRay (through Encore)".
Once the render was done, Encore complained that the computer didn't have a BluRay burner (which is the case) so it aborted the burn. I then exported that Encore project out as a "BluRay Folder" structure onto the hard drive.

I then found the actual video file (BDMV/STREAMS/filename) and burned just that file to a DVD-R

A PlayStation3 was able to find the file on the disc - accessing it as a data-disc - and then play it back, at a very high quality.
A regular Sony "Set Top Box" BluRay Player was NOT able to navigate the disc and play the file.



I also (first) tried burning the entire BluRay folder structure to a DVD-R, but neither player recognized the disc as BluRay, and the only way to play the file was to find it in the data structure on the PS3 and play it independently there.

No good for distribution. But as a quick and cheap (not counting the PS3) way to portably present HD material from disc, it worked.


I did not have any HD-DVD authoring software of playback hardware to test.


- Mikko
 
I have a HD-DVD player, so I use DVD Studio Pro to burn HD-DVDs onto 4.7g disks. Its just a pulldown menu setting.

I also use Pinnacle Studio 11 Ultimate for certain tasks, and it also burns HD-DVDs onto 4.7g disks. Pinnacle has supposedly added AVCHD to Studio but not having a Blu-Ray player, I haven't tried that yet.

Disks burned by both apps played just fine in my Toshiba player.
 
Done two or three dozen HD DVDs with h.264 footage out of DVD SP 4.2 on red laser dye DVDs.

All look great played on a Toshiba HD DVD.

Have tried it in Encore CS3 on a Mac due to lack of blu ray burner.
 
So if one would have Final Cut Studio 2 it would be not only easy but even openly supported to do such a task?
 
Yes, definitely it is supported. I think you can get about 18 minutes of HD content onto a DVD-5 (that's the 4.7GB disc) and twice that on a dual-layer DVD-9.

Just use the HD-DVD output settings in Compressor and then create the DVD in DVD Studio Pro - just as David S. says in the post above.
 
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