Viewing HD Clips - What am I Missing?

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mpspillers

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Hi, folks -

Forgive what I'm sure is a VERY dumb question (total HD newbie here) -

Nate's excellent music video has been the first and only HDRFX1 clip I've ever been able to download and view. All other clips I've found on this site and elsewhere, when played, cause my monitor to freak, jiggle, blackout and freeze, killing my internet connection until two or three reboots later.

I'm guessing it takes different hardware/software to view HD? Akin to a traditional TV not recognizing an HD feed? So what exactly am I missing? The right card? Player? Monitor specs?

Part 2: If I do get up to speed technically and decide to go with the HDRFX1, does that mean everyone whom I try to send clips or dvds of my projects to will also have the same problem I'm having now unless they have HD tvs/monitors?

What makes Nate's clip different from all the HDRFX1 clips out there that crap out my machine? Is there some kind of "down-res to SD" step that will allow me to share clips with my SD friends if I ever decide to make the big jump to HD?

Thanks for your help! - M
 
Nate's file is not HD, it's downconverted to alot smaller file. Most files that you'll find in the internet from the FX1/Z1 are .m2t files (mpeg transport stream). These are best played with VLC-player. You can get it from http://www.videolan.org/vlc/

With the FX1 you can downrez to DV on the fly, and it will output DV from the firewire, even if you shot HDV. You can select from the menu, which one will it output.

DVD:s are always SD, so there won't be a problem.

Basically you can shoot HDV, downconvert incamera to DV for editing, and make DVDs from those DV files, just as you would with a DV camera. Ofcourse if you have the right software, fast enough computer, and some harddisk space, then you can edit in HDV, and do a downconvert with software to DVD.
In a couple of years Blu-Ray discs will allow making HD resolution DVD:s. Actually there are two competing formats: one named "HD-DVD" and another named "Blu-Ray Disc". The Blu-Ray disc is better in my opinion and it's got a bigger capacity.
 
Also some people publish videos in Quicktime, and that works well on all systems. Others use Windows Media and that's trouble almost every time. Even more so when the video is high resolution or large sized.
 
satellitebunny said:
Most files that you'll find in the internet from the FX1/Z1 are .m2t files (mpeg transport stream). These are best played with VLC-player.
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Thanks! I'd actually already downloaded VLC and was attempting to use it to open an .m2t file, which is what froze my monitor. Other players simply say "can't read file". But when players like VLC actually open and attempt to play the file, everything crashes. That's why I'm wondering if I'm missing some kind of video card or something? :huh:
 
princigalli said:
Also some people publish videos in Quicktime, and that works well on all systems. Others use Windows Media and that's trouble almost every time. Even more so when the video is high resolution or large sized.
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it's due to software, because i find the exact opposite, quicktime is nothing but trouble, but HD .wmv files are plain sailing for viewing and for encoding.

the PC's quicktime player is dreadful.
 
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Fil, if what you say is true, this is bad news. This means that one needs to encode in both standards to make film visible for everyone. I hope Apple manages to solve their problems. However, I think Quicktime works well if encoded properly. For the moment the best encoder is Sorenson Squeeze using the Sorenson 3 codec. With Quicktime 7, Apple should be introducing a better codec which should also be working on a variety of platforms. Let's hope so.
 
princigalli, well i think you only need encode to one standard, i certainly can view quicktime files, but i dislike the quicktime player i have to use, but the codec itself seems nice.

is there a player that will play both the latest QT and WMV9?
 
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