Is it HD or SD or what?

indybones

indybones

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Hi guys
could some one help to explain something here please.

1. If I shoot HD on HVX-200 720PN
2. Import to FCP
3. Edit film
4. Export as quicktime .mov
5. Import into DVD studio Pro (mpeg2 compression)
6. Burn onto a standard DVD

What am I left with, is it

a. Down converted hi def footage which plays on mac and DVD player?
b. Hi def footage which plays on mac and DVD player?

Or something else rather confused?

Or if there is any other way of burning etc?

Many thanks :dankk2::dankk2:

Indy
 
bigbossbmb said:
when making the DVD, you are downconverting to 720x480 (SD) resolution.
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Thanks Bigboss,

even though its been down converted to (PAL) 720X576 has it still been better to capture the original footage in HD?

Is there a way of burning the hi def footage onto a HD DVD? so that its isn't down converted.
I'm using 2GHz PowerPC G5


Thanks
 
indybones said:
1. If I shoot HD on HVX-200 720PN
2. Import to FCP
3. Edit film
4. Export as quicktime .mov
5. Import into DVD studio Pro (mpeg2 compression)
6. Burn onto a standard DVD
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Just as a side note, I would use compressor for the conversion to MPEG, DVD studio pro makes a complete arse of it.
 
Noel Evans said:
Just as a side note, I would use compressor for the conversion to MPEG, DVD studio pro makes a complete arse of it.
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Thanks Noel...


I've just followed Ken Stones process (see link) that says you can
export from FCP/compressor as H.264, then bring that into DVDSP change a few settings and burn that onto a standard DVD 4.7G, however when I go to bring the H.264 into DVDSP it says 'incompatible format'...?????

Help please..
Thanks

Indy
 
You do not export to h.264 unless you are creating a HD DVD.

That can be played only on Intel Macs, and Toshiba HD DVD set tops.

Remember as well, that not all h.264 encodes work. You need to use the presets for HD DVDs in Compressor for this to work.
 
David S. said:
You do not export to h.264 unless you are creating a HD DVD.

That can be played only on Intel Macs, and Toshiba HD DVD set tops.

Remember as well, that not all h.264 encodes work. You need to use the presets for HD DVDs in Compressor for this to work.
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Thanks David,

I'm still a bit confused sorry...

If I shoot HD footage
edit film in FCP
export (not sure of the best way of exporting or in what format now)

is there a way to be able to still burn that footage (the full res HD not down converted to SD) onto a standard DVD using DVDSP? So that it can play on any mac and any DVD player, or has the HD footage always got to be down converted to SD for this to play on any DVD player and any mac?

Sorry for being a bit dumb on this...and thanks for your help...
 
indybones said:
is there a way to be able to still burn that footage (the full res HD not down converted to SD) onto a standard DVD using DVDSP? So that it can play on any mac and any DVD player, or has the HD footage always got to be down converted to SD for this to play on any DVD player and any mac?

Sorry for being a bit dumb on this...and thanks for your help...
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DVD is SD only, so you can't put HD content on it, period. Only Blu-ray or the defunct HDDVD formats can do that, and those discs won't play on a standard DVD player.

But to answer an earlier question of yours, I believe very strongly that initially capturing in HD can make for significantly better looking SD DVDs. Each step in the transcoding/copying/displaying process leads to some degradation, so better initial quality = better final quality. I recently completed a short documentary DVD this way, shot at 720/30p on an HVX200a and the results were really exceptional. IMO it looked better than quite a few 35mm feature film DVDs I've rented recently.
 
Ted Spencer said:
DVD is SD only, so you can't put HD content on it, period. Only Blu-ray or the defunct HDDVD formats can do that, and those discs won't play on a standard DVD player.

But to answer an earlier question of yours, I believe very strongly that initially capturing in HD can make for significantly better looking SD DVDs. Each step in the transcoding/copying/displaying process leads to some degradation, so better initial quality = better final quality. I recently completed a short documentary DVD this way, shot at 720/30p on an HVX200a and the results were really exceptional. IMO it looked better than quite a few 35mm feature film DVDs I've rented recently.
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Thanks for clearing that up for me Ted :dankk2::thumbup::dankk2:

And you would also recommend compressing as MPEG2 in compressor rather than in DVDSP?
 
Yes. Compressor is capable of significantly better PQ than any other method I've tried, and it's not much slower. You will want to have the fastest Mac you can get your hands on though. My new 8 core 2.8 saves about 8 hours over my dual 2.7 G5 when transcoding a 2 hour FCP project at highest quality!
 
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