HDV to DVD

[John Rofrano]

The best workflow that I have found is to work in an HDV project with the same settings as the source footage so that all of the titles and other things you are adding are the same high quality as the original footage. Then render to MPEG2 at DVD quality when you are done using one of the DVD Architect templates.

This also gives you the added advantage of going back and burning a Blu-ray from the same project in the future. This is how I work and I’ve gone back and created Blu-rays from some of last years DVD projects so I’m glad I did it this was from the beginning.

~jr

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[Terry Esslinger]

John (or anyone else),

So you should take your HDV footage (from FX1) and capture it and work with an HDV time line (1440×1080 60i) This is interlaced, upper field first (I believe)
When you have fininhed editing your project you need to render it and that depends on what yourt end player is going to be (right?)If you are going to DVD it has to be MPG2 (either SD or BR). Lets assume SD for the moment. Do you need to take into consideration what type of television it is going to be played on as to what the settings are? That is progressive or interlaced? And if you do not know what tyupe of television will be used what do you do? What if a progressive scan or non-progrssive scan DVD player is used?

Now I understand that most newer DVD players are progressive scan and that the trend is toward digital LCD, plasma etc TVs. But there are still a lot of CRT TVs out there. In fact I have a very nice Mitsibishi CRT 65″ HDTV (rear projection)

[John Rofrano]

There is only one thing to consider when going from HDV to DVD that I should have mentioned. The 16:9 aspect of DV Widescreen is slightly wider than the 16:9 of HDV so be sure to render with the option Stretch video to fill frame size (do not letterbox) turned on (checked). It will remove the very slight black pillarbox on the sides. This is actually optional because the slight pillarboxing is hard to notice.

Other than that, just select one of the DVD Architect MPEG2 templates and render your audio as AC3 and drop them into DVD Architect (or the authoring software of your choice). If the target TV is interlaced it will, of course, play fine. If the TV is progressive it is smart enough to deinterlace even if the DVD player is not (and almost all are anyway) and it will play fine. There is no worries with any TV equipment.

The only time you need to worry is if you are rendering for playback on a PC because there is no hardware in the PC to compensate for the fact that the PC is progressive and the footage is interlaced. But any kind of TV equipment, (DVD players, Plasma, LCD, CRT, you name it) is well aware of the established standards and how to output interfaced footage correctly.

~jr

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[Terry Esslinger]

Thanks for the quick info.

[Odd Magne nilsen]

Thanks a lot from me, too “smile”

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