how to make HD dVd's with the hvx

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steezb

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HI, I am very new to filming in Hd. How do you actually make a real hd dvd, with Dvcpro hd footage from an HVX? I am running FCPS2 on a macbook pro at the moment. Do I need an different dvd burner to make hd dvd's? Also Does anyone have any suggestions on a good Hd monitor, so I can actually see hi-def images while im filming?
thanks.
Stephen....
 
There are so many posts about this.

You can burn h.264 HD DVD DVD5 red laser dye DVDs with DVD SP 4.2 using a stock SuperDrive.

Information is in the manual for DVD SP and the on line PDF help manual.

On the monitor, poke around here and look for information. Nebek, Marshall, Panasonic all make LCD HD monitors.
 
I have read about that way of doing this. If you make them this way, are you really getting hi-def footage on the final dvd, since they are sd dvd's? Can you make Hd dvd's other ways?
 
You need to do a bit more reading since it is kind of difficult to cover an entire technology on a message board post.

They are not "sd" dvd's... they are red laser dye DVD media.

You can author BluRay through Adobe Encore. There is no computer-based solution for playing these back... yet... until Leopard arrives. Of course you would need to buy one of the BluRay burners now on the market.

You can author HD DVD as David mentioned with the limitations of no menus. After some early incompatibilities, these should play on Toshiba HD DVD units and on your Mac.

Well... if the standard for High Definition DVD's is H.264 and you encode in H.264... I guess what you have is HD. You can also encode in MPEG2 HD (that's what we had to do before the Toshiba compatibility issue was solved). The other codec for the standard is WMV.

Hope this points you in the right direction and you can read up a bit on it.

Ned Soltz
 
They aren't standard definition DVDs. They are HD DVDs burned on DVD5s.

Encode supports burning to blu ray if you have a burner and the codecs.

But why do you think that DVDs are SD or HD. All DVD blanks are are storage media. It's what is burned on the DVD and in what format is what matters.

And DVD SP 4.2 does facilitate menus for HD DVDs with the Toshiba A1 set top.

I just authored a 10.3 mbps DVD red laser dye h.264 HD DVD menu and it looks great.
 
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