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can HD be put onto a regular dvd using Encore
I have been putting HD onto regular DVDs using Ulead movie factory 6plus–25 minutes on a 4GB and 50 minutes on -R dual layer. My question can this be done with Encore and a Blu-Ray burner and burn 15 minutes on a regular dvd in HD and how would you do it. Would you export file as a HD H264 or how could this be done. I hate to waste a blu ray disc on a 15 minute video–Bruce
Bruce Reynolds
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As far as I know, Encore can only make “watchable” (as opposed to data discs) standard def dvds. Don’t know how you would get it to allow you to put an HD project on a standard disc, but if anyone else knows of a way I’d be glad to be put straight.
Simon Bonner
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The simple answer is… kind of. You can create a blu-ray image, and burn in onto a DVD using another program like Nero, which creates something called a BD-9, which is a blu-ray disc image on a standard DVD (dual layer explains the 9 designation). Built into Blu-ray’s spec, is the ability to play back BD-9 disks, but implimentation hasn’t been universal. Last time I tested, (several months ago), PS3s didn’t yet support playback of my BD-9 discs, but there is a real future for the medium, as it provides a format for shorter format, or lower datarate HD discs to be created using traditional DVD replication, as apposed to blu-ray replication, which will be out of most people’s price range, not only because of the cost of the media, but primarily because of the blu-ray spec, which has copywrite and license requirements, which make it so that programs like Encore don’t create commercially reproducable blu-ray discs. This means that commercial replication of blu-ray is only viable for well funded projects, meaning that something has to take its place in the semi-pro realm. Since we all want HD distribution, I believe BD-9 will become that solution, but it remains to be seen, and requires hardware support from the manufacturers.
Hope this helps.
Heath
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Check this out. Also, using an .iso BluRay image, ImgBurn can burn to a regular DVD and play on the Sony RS300 player with functional menus.
https://www.adobeforums.com/webx/.59b520d1/16.
John Rich
JOHNR
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thanks, I’ll try it on a short 15 minute HD shoot of a building being demolished. I have to finish a wedding first. I’ll report my findings back on here.
Bruce Reynolds
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Bruce,
If you wouldn’t mind, I’d like to hear how you do the details when you get to it. I was surprised to find the menus have to be full sized 1920×1080 in order to fill the screen. I thought the BluRay encoding would expand the widescreen menus, but apparently not.
John
JOHNR
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I will as soon as I figure it out also. This is the 1st time I’m trying this.
Bruce Reynolds
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