Cees Mutsaers
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If you want to to play a project (1.5 hours long, 720p) on a HD-TV, how to do this without an external mediaplayer or blue ray player (consumer clients often do not have either player just a HD-TV) ??
How to play a long project on a TV ?
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You don't. But you can use a laptop or other computer as an external media player if you have the right inputs. Most modern gaming consoles work as well. I say 'no' outright because 'external media player' covers every playback device other than blu-ray, and the only other option is a TV that can play digital files on its own. Which I haven't seen.
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ullanta
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We need to know more about the situation...
Are you delivering these products to clients to play themselves? Or demoing things to clients? What's the budget? These days, it's pretty cheap to give a client a blu-ray disc AND a player.... Some TVs will play media from a flash drive or SD card, but that's a crapshoot.
Too bad HDMI doesn't carry power... imagine a flash-drive-like "HDMI Stick" for delivery...
Are you delivering these products to clients to play themselves? Or demoing things to clients? What's the budget? These days, it's pretty cheap to give a client a blu-ray disc AND a player.... Some TVs will play media from a flash drive or SD card, but that's a crapshoot.
Too bad HDMI doesn't carry power... imagine a flash-drive-like "HDMI Stick" for delivery...
Cees Mutsaers
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Yes clients want to play themselves (so I am not talking about demoing to clients). There is no budget, the registration I made is for free (charity project). The clients consists of about a group of 80 people who all want to be able to play the registration at home. Yes my parents have a Philips HDTV which can play MPEG4 container media from a USB stick. I use that TV for checking the result but in this case the recording is so long that the export (via FC pro) to a MP4 container always gives an error after 78% of the export (the export stopped after 78% and the temperary file is deleted). I still have the feeling that delivery of HD content is still a very big problem (how in god's name will they ever be able to deliver 3D-HD files which are even much bigger if even 2D HD is already a problem). So the only thing I can deliver is a mov container with either a h264 or MPEG4 codec but that limits the play back to a computer monitor (I can not tell them "buy a mediaplayer when you want to see it on your big HDTV screen). By the way I prefer to export always at 20 Mbs bit rate to keep at least some quality left. We have great HD camareas, the footage looks great on the time line(prores HQ) but after export to get reasonable file size the quality is just a little bit better than SD
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I still don't quite get the issue. Even if you could get it to work, on your 'no budget' you're not about to deliver 80 16Gb flash sticks, or make a file that big available for download. As much as we'd like to promote and preserve the ultimate HD quality, dvd is still the go-to format for this kind of thing. It is universal and everyone knows how to use it, as long as it is widescreen and fills the tv most people don't care or know the difference.
If you want these 80 people to see the production in its full glory put on a screening with a good projector. Otherwise slap in on dvd and be done with it.
I like to remind myself why I don't shoot weddings (not saying that this scenario is anything like that), but I like to look at the ads and websites of new upstarts trying to crack into the market. I'm in a small market that doesn't charge or get nearly enough, so why bother. Anyway, some joker is promoting HD shooting on his HVX 100 B, well you know as well as I that there is no such camera, 100 B is a dead give-away that he's just shooting widescreen on the dvx and delivering dvd. But you can get away with that in the consumer market as most people are not that picky. They know it won't look like hollywood, as long as it fits the tv, you're good to go.
If you want these 80 people to see the production in its full glory put on a screening with a good projector. Otherwise slap in on dvd and be done with it.
I like to remind myself why I don't shoot weddings (not saying that this scenario is anything like that), but I like to look at the ads and websites of new upstarts trying to crack into the market. I'm in a small market that doesn't charge or get nearly enough, so why bother. Anyway, some joker is promoting HD shooting on his HVX 100 B, well you know as well as I that there is no such camera, 100 B is a dead give-away that he's just shooting widescreen on the dvx and delivering dvd. But you can get away with that in the consumer market as most people are not that picky. They know it won't look like hollywood, as long as it fits the tv, you're good to go.