Best way to get HD footage from varicam to a DVD?

[Rodrigo Lizana]

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[Tim Lemons]

We capture straight to a Power Mac and do not use tape. I do not know what the AJA Composite miniconverter is. I am kind of new to this. Could you briefly tell me what settings to use in DVDSP?

Thanks for reply,

Tim

[Gunleik Groven]

How do you do this?

HD-SDI to a Blackmagic or AJA card?
Capturing with “capture now” settings in FinalCut to which format?
HD/SD compression type?

Which framerates are you recording at?

The Varica, is a 720p only camera.
You know that all universally playable DVD’s are still SD Only?
Or are you making HD-DVD’s for playback from a computer?

Don’t use iDVD it’s bad and meant for other use than what you describe.
DVD Studio Pro and compressor are excellent, but demanding programs.
You’ll have to play around with settings to get the best compression results.
But do a search at the FCP COW and DVDSP COW.

Gunleik

[Tim Lemons]

We are going into a black magic card. We are using the black magic settings for 720p @ 59.94 fps.

I am aware that DVD’s are sd. The purpose of this is to record it to be able to play a good quality (obviously not HD) back on a DVD.

I will have to take some time and learn DVDSP i guess.

Thank you for your reply,

Tim

[Ronald Borden]

Hi Tim,

I have a Varicam and FCP and DVDSP and output DVDs all the time. The quality has always been excellent. If I’m in a hurry, I just output from FCP a self contained QT movie, import into DVDSP and encode it there. It is really a very easy process and delivers great results. For replication masters or the final project, I use Compressor from FCP to encode, then go to DVDSP.

The tutorials that come with DVDSP are really good and fun to learn from. There are also some really great training books(available at Borders or Barnes and Noble) that come with media. It’s not a difficult program to learn.

Good Luck,

Ron Borden