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Vegas & HD TV DVD Quality
Hi,
Here is my quandry. I’m having fun making DVDs out of photos taken on trips. Using Vegas. The photos are high-quality, coming out of a 10 megapixel camera. They can be downsized to the HD size (say 1920 pixels horizontal) before inserted to Vegas. {Vegas 9, DVDA-4.}
But, my quandry is whether to buy a HD-TV at this time. Will the resulting DVD (Vegas-to-DVD Architect) show up as really high quality High Definition? My burner is ordinary, not blue ray or ?
(The location I’m at won’t have HD broadcast for 4 to 6 years, and there are not that many HD Videos available to buy. Thus the only reason for spending twice the $$ than for a same-size non-HD, or for a “HD-Ready” TV would be if my photo-videos can take advantage of the HD-TV.)
Answer, please??
Thank you
John -
5 Replies
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In order to produce high definition DVDs (Blu-ray, to be precise, since HD-DVD is dead), you would need DVD Architect Pro 5.0 and a Blu-ray burner. Using what you have (guessing Vegas Movie Studio 9 and DVD Architect Studio 4.5?), your DVD project will be standard definition — 720×480.
That said, if you bought an HDTV and a DVD player that can up-res standard definition to high definition, you might get a relatively “high quality” image. Though I suspect that this works for commercially produced videos a lot better than for home produced ones (since they’re starting out with such high quality content and encoders).
Personally, I wouldn’t make the investment just to watch some photo slideshows, but that’s just me. 😉
Rob
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Rob, there are many posts that state that you can burn an HD DVD with a standard burner onto standard DVDs. (but you are limited to 20 minutes) You only need a bluRay player to watch them, not a burner. I have not personally tried it yet but I’m getting close. If I get a chance I will try to link back to some of those posts.
Found one: Read this entire thread:
https://forums.creativecow.net/readpost/24/886850 -
To address your actual question of should you buy an HDTV at this time, it sounds like the answer is no. If you don’t have access to hdtv programming, then the only other question would be if you watch a lot of dvd’s. Those can at least take advantage of widescreen television, if not full HD resolution. If you have the money, sure, get an hdtv so dvd’s fill it out and you can edit all your montages in widescreen resolution so they’re “future-proof.” If the videos are just photos, you should save the project files and source images, then in the future just change the project to HD and rerender a bluray.
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Thank you all for your prompt and helpful advice. I guess in my situation the bottom line is to get a “HD-Ready” (13??x7??) flat TV, for about 60% of the price “Full-HD”, and when HD arrives here, or when I decide to invest in an HD Camcorder and Blueray. Since I won’t be able to watch any broadcasts in HD (I’ve seen a friend’s 52″ in California recently and it is absolutely stunning, even up close) I’ll save the difference and by then the price would be even lower.
Many thanks again.
JohnJohn23GR
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Yes. Even the analog SD broadcast will look better, though not HD.
There’s no need to buy a BD player if you don’t really need it. Your SD slide shows on an up-rez DVD player (under $100) will blow you away.
Steve Mann
MannMade Digital Video
http://www.mmdv.com
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