OK...I'm a bit confused and I'm not surprised b/c all this is new to me. I just started out with a Canon HG10 and I'm learning how to edit my movies. Not bad so far. I have reached a point now that I would like to take my projects and put them on DVD. It was my understanding that the format that a DVD player reads is MPEG-2. I burned a DVD from a file that was coded Mpeg-2 and I did the standard 720 x 480 NTSC DVD format and my footage looked like garbage.
Last night I was playing around with Sony Vegas DVD archietect and just wanted to create a DVD Menu with some background music. The events that I have saved in 1280 X 720 are in WMV format. I use this to submit my projects onto Vimeo.com. I took these projects encoded in wmv and put them on my menu. I burned the DVD and to my surprise the buttons I created actually lead me in to my movies. The movies looked much better than the first DVD I ever burned. Does this software take any format and convert it so a standard DVD player can read it? I was under the assumption it was only MPEG-2. I gues for now I will be saving my movies in WMV instead of MPEG-2. The quality is night and day.
Ideally, I want to get a Blue ray burner and format my movies in 1920 x 1080 and burn that onto a BD disk.
Can someone explain this Mpeg-2 codec versus the other ones? Which one do you use? If your creating very clean movies that are clear almost High-def how are you doing it?
Last night I was playing around with Sony Vegas DVD archietect and just wanted to create a DVD Menu with some background music. The events that I have saved in 1280 X 720 are in WMV format. I use this to submit my projects onto Vimeo.com. I took these projects encoded in wmv and put them on my menu. I burned the DVD and to my surprise the buttons I created actually lead me in to my movies. The movies looked much better than the first DVD I ever burned. Does this software take any format and convert it so a standard DVD player can read it? I was under the assumption it was only MPEG-2. I gues for now I will be saving my movies in WMV instead of MPEG-2. The quality is night and day.
Ideally, I want to get a Blue ray burner and format my movies in 1920 x 1080 and burn that onto a BD disk.
Can someone explain this Mpeg-2 codec versus the other ones? Which one do you use? If your creating very clean movies that are clear almost High-def how are you doing it?
