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HDV workflow to finished HD-DVD or BlueRay
I’ve been shooting in HDV for over a year now, but merely downconverting to DV for my finished projects.
I know toshiba released the first HD-DVD player, but does anyone know what codec we are suppose to output to. to master a HD-DVD? So too Blue Ray should be out by the fall, and I’m curious if anyone has any idea for output workflow for that and is it different?
Are we still in a holding pattern, obviously we’ll need burners for this kind of work, I’m just trying to figure out the costs involved and a timeline.
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I’m more or less curious if we are suppose to output HDV, AIC or whatever then encode it to something else. Currently I output DV then encode to .m2v Will there be a similar process?
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DVDSP 4 will encode your HDV to HD-DVD using the HD MPEG-2 codec. DVDSP also uses the H.264 codec for HD-DVD. Both DVDSP and Compressor will handle your assets using these codecs. You can currently burn HD-DVD onto todays red laser media with your superdrive. These are only viewable on the Apple DVD Player. Current dvd set top machines will not play them nor will Blueray Players. Current DVD red laser is burnt using 0.74
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You can use your HDV files directly in DVDSP 4, but only edited files from FCP, not fresh from the camcorder. It does some kind of re-arrangement of the GOPs, but there’s no recompression.
Regards,
Uli
Author of “DVDs gestalten und produzieren”, a book on professional DVD-authoring in German.
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I have a dual 2 GHZ power mac. Whats the quickest I could expect to render that project in HDV?
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I’ve seen something less than 20 minutes for a one hour project on that machine, even your rendering times can be longer if you are doing lots of FX. Remember, it’s no recompression, just arringing, if you are editing native HDV.
Regards,
Uli
Author of “DVDs gestalten und produzieren”, a book on professional DVD-authoring in German.
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