Can I use H.264 for my XD footage

[Roli Rivelino]

Just wondering if I should deinterlace my H.264 for best web performance.

many thanks.

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[Craig Seeman]

ALWAYS without exception deinterlace for web. In fact unless you have specific reason to shoot interlace (and there are a few) you should be shooting progressive. While much “broadcast” may be 1080i60 (a few are 720p60) virtually everything else Blu-ray, web, digital signage, file based playback is better off originating as progressive. Deinterlace almost always introduces compromises in quality and there’s some really horrid deinterlacers people tend to use, so my simple advice is don’t shoot interlace unless you must.

[Craig Seeman]

No such think as Hi def DVD. There’s Blu-ray or, in some cases “AVCHD” which can be burned to DVD-r but plays only on compatible Blu-ray players.

There are no H.264 DVD settings in Compressor, Only Blu-ray and AVCHD.

[Roli Rivelino]

I was talking about the HD DVD H.264 10.3 Mps for DVD-5 within the DVD groups.

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[Roli Rivelino]

Thanks for the info Craig, unfortunately this wasn’t my footage so I had no control over how it was shot.

Should I use the de-interlacer within the H.264 setting in Compressor?

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[Craig Seeman]

HD DVD is defunct unless maybe you’re being asked to encode for a legacy player.

For Web always deinterlace. I no longer remember what HD DVD supported. I’m not sure if the player will or won’t do a better job deinterlacing if it’s sending to an HDTV.

[Craig Seeman]

Always deinterlace for web. I can’t speak for the defunct HD DVD format and players though. I can’t imagine why somebody would stick with one when you can get a Blu-ray player for as little as $129. Once their HD DVD player goes they will have an unplayable disk going into the future.

[Roli Rivelino]

cool, thanks

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