How do you render 1080 to write/burn to a dvd and not lose quality? - Sony Vegas+GH2

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gundar

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Each time I render out from Sony vegas and write it to a dvd I can't retain full screen 1080.

Is this possible? I tried searching but no avail.

Thanks!
 
It's not 720p, it's really 480p or 480i. There is a way to make a DVD that carries HD video and plays in a blu-ray player. However it'll be heavily compressed and your duration is limited drastically.
DVD's don't spin as fast as blu-ray and just can't deliver the bit rate for high quality HD.
Look here:
http://forums.creativecow.net/thread/20/867267

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DVDs (that will play in a regular DVD player) are SD, period, end of story. Proper settings can make them look pretty good, but in general you ARE going to lose detail, especially in shadows where it's going to crush things you could see in HD to black.
 
Some blu-ray players come with a USB input that can be used to play data files from a flash drive (thumb or jump drive). I have a Western Digital HDTV media player that connects to my TV with HDMI and plays most HD file formats. I typically render to either MP4 (both 720 and 1080 MP4 looks very good on my 40" Sony Bravia) or to 1280x720 60p (motion looks very smooth), copy to a "thumb" drive and plug that in to the WDTV USB input.
 
Bruce Foreman said:
Some blu-ray players come with a USB input that can be used to play data files from a flash drive (thumb or jump drive). I have a Western Digital HDTV media player that connects to my TV with HDMI and plays most HD file formats. I typically render to either MP4 (both 720 and 1080 MP4 looks very good on my 40" Sony Bravia) or to 1280x720 60p (motion looks very smooth), copy to a "thumb" drive and plug that in to the WDTV USB input.
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I LOVE my WDTV, it's awesome. :thumbsup:
 
Thanks so much!

Okay so since all DVDs are primarly sd 480, what have you found to be the absolute best format and settings to make the clearest DVD-video possible?
 
gundar said:
Okay so since all DVDs are primarly sd 480
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It's not that all DVDs are "primarily" SD 480, it's that all DVDs are "exclusively" standard-def. Period. They are either 480 NTSC, or 576 PAL, end of story. DVD is a standard-def medium.

what have you found to be the absolute best format and settings to make the clearest DVD-video possible?
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That depends on your source material and how you're authoring it. I would suggest asking your question in our post-production forums, specifically in the Sony Vegas forum as that's the program you're using.
 
Check out Dan Isaacs "hd2sd" plug-in if you are willing and able to deal with avisynth... and have to output SD from HD.
 
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