HD on DVD with Encore CS5

[Bob Antonelli]

Hey John,

You did give a good answer, thank you. You said that you play the burnt DVD’s in a Blu-Ray player. Can you play those blu-ray .iso Standard DVD’s in a standard DVD player?

I’m a new wedding videographer trying to give my client the best possible quality DVD of their HD footage that I can. At this point, most clients don’t have Blu-Ray players, just standard dvd players.

Thanks!!

[John Rich]

Bob,
No, you have to play BluRay HD material on a blu ray player no matter what kind of disk the video is on.
What I would do is post your question as a new question. That way you would get a bunch of new answers. This way, the question still shows up from back in January.
However, here’s what I do with my footage which was HDV (1440×1080) and now is AVCHD (1920×1080). I take the footage and scale it down to 720×480 widescreen (PAR 1.2). The scaling process, if you’ve followed the forums is somewhat controversial, but with the Adobe Media Encoder in CS5, I think that is pretty much the standard way to go now.

Anyway, once the DVD is made with widescreen media, I just play it in an uprezzing dvd player through a HDMI cable to a HDTV and I think it looks pretty good.
I’ve been told the new Bluray players aren’t that expensive, so you might check that out (I’ve been told $100, but I could be wrong).
The problem is, even if you make a DVD with bluray material on it, you are limited to about 20 minutes of video, which doesn’t sound like enough to do a wedding.
You might be surprised how many folks have bluray players.
Let us know how you work this out.
John

JOHNR

[Nate Stancil]

I just wanted to take a second to say thanks for the post about how to get HD content onto a DVD. I just created a BD ISO in Encore and burned to DVD with ImgBurn, like you said. Played great on my BD player! Thanks Again! Nate