HD?,SD??, Widescreen?? I’m confused!

[Bret Williams]

When you make a DVD in toast, it’s SD. DVDs are all SD. HD discs are called blu-ray. (there was a competing format called HD DVD, but it lost the war like betamax did vs. VHS.) There is an option for lbu-ray in toast as well, if you buy the $20 add on. To burn a true blu-ray disc you would also need a blu-ray burner (they don’t come on any macs yet).

I’m glad your SD DVD looks so good you think it’s high def. I would be able to tell the difference instantly but I guess you’re showing why Blu-Ray isn’t selling as well as hoped. People are happy with the quality of widescreen DVDs and don’t want to pay an extra $7 for Blu-Ray.

[Chris Wiggles]

[Bret Williams] ” I thought his post was anything but vague. He edited in 1080 HD. He made a widescreen disc which was either SD or HD. He wanted to know the best way to edit some SD material into his timeline. Should he reedit in SD or add the HD material to the HD timeline. In the end, the only thing he didn’t know wS the format of the disc other than it was 16:9.

BTW letterboxed is not a DVD format. DVDs are either 4:3 or 16:9 (anamorphic). There’s no APEC for letterboxed. Letterboxed is nothing more than an artistic choice, but it would be considered a 4:3 disc. Not widescreen. There aren’t any letterboxed Hollywood movies for example. Letterboxed is a description of how your DVD player displays a 16:9 disc on a 4:3 screen. If a DVD is labeled widescreen, it means 16:9 anamorphic, not letterboxed.”

🙂 Got it!

Sometimes my reading comprehension is a little slow…

And yes correct on your DVD descriptions.

Regards,
Chris

[Gautam Pandey]

Thanks Bret!

It also looked good because i previewed it on an HD TV, through a Blu ray player connected by HDMI

same footage played on a SD DVD player and connected through an RC cable looked crap! 🙂

Gautam Pandey
http://www.riverbankstudios.com

[Mike Carter]

Don’t try to scale the SD footage up, it will lose a lot of quality. Since you’re exporting to SD(DVD), you could edit your HD footage in SD, then all your footage would match and you wouldn’t have smaller SD footage in an HD timeline.