• Apple Final Cut Pro Legacy

  HD DVD options in Studio Pro and Compressor – defunct?

  Posted by Michael Pye on January 26, 2010 at 8:39 pm

  Hello everyone.

  I have a question I would be very interested to hear the answer to. In the target presets for Compressor (v3) there is an option for HD DVD MPEG-2 (30 minutes), which it notes “fits upto 30 minutes on a DVD-5.” Likewise, in DVD Studio Pro there is an option for HD DVD, however, the HD DVD MPEG-2 output from Compressor (.m2v) is not accepted by DVD Studio Pro on its ‘HD’ setting, or for that matter on the SD setting. The reason I ask is that I have a 19 minute HD ‘taster’ for a documentary, which therefore ought to fit on a DVD using the HD 30-minute option if compressed using that preset and, obviously, my orders are to author a disk of the highest visual quality possible. Suggestions would be welcome!

  Many thanks,

  Michael

  Michael Pye replied 16 years, 3 months ago 2 Members · 3 Replies
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  Rob Grauert

  January 26, 2010 at 9:12 pm

  I read about this a while in the DVD SP manual, and if I remember correctly, DVD SP authors HD DVDs with H.264 source files and that DVD only plays from a computer that can read that data.

  So try importing an H.264 file into DVD SP and burning that. The benefit is you can have a dang nice image and AIFF audio. The drawback is it has to be viewed on a capable computer.

  Give it a shot and see what happens. I never tried it before.

  Robert J. Grauert, Jr.
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  Rob Grauert

  January 26, 2010 at 9:23 pm

  Ahh, just check the manual.

  Make sure you go to DVD Studio Pro Preferences and chose HD Project. You can’t import HD assets into SD project.

  Also, in Compressor try the ” HD DVD H.264 60 Minutes Preset” instead of the HD DVD MPEG preset

  Robert J. Grauert, Jr.
  http://www.robgrauert.com
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  Michael Pye

  January 26, 2010 at 9:44 pm

  Fantastic, thanks guys. I did read the manual (rare, I know) and it was indeed a HD project in DVD Studio that I imported the .m2v file into, so it’s odd that it shouldn’t work. Anyhow, excellent suggestion Robert regarding the 60 minute preset, I’ll give that a shot and let you know what happens!

  Cheers.
  Michael

  Macbook Pro 15″, 2.53GHz Intel Core 2 Duo, 4GB 1067 MHz DDR3, Nvidia GeForce 9600M GT; OS X 10.5.8, Final Cut Pro 6.0.6

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