Michael Slowe
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You can’t have an HD DVD. DVD’s are SD but can be made from HD but that has to be downscaled first. If you want to play HD material then Blu-Ray (BD) is the way to go. But you need an BD burner to do that and the right software – I use Toast Titanium Pro 11 for that, but there are others.
Michael Slowe
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I believe that there was HDV support from about version 12 onwards.
Michael Slowe
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Thanks Floh, problem sorted. Since you mentioned the OS please could you just advise what the best current combination is between Media 100 and the OS. I’m on Suite 2.1 and OS 10.6.7.
Michael Slowe
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Thanks Floh for answering my query. I have the still on my MacBook, which is not my editing MacPro. I did as you suggest, went to Tools and there is Size Adjust rather than Size Correction that you mention. In the Resolution box I put in the 1024 x 768 that you suggest but got a large pixilated picture which obviously means I did something wrong! There are two other boxes which are ticked, Scale Proportionally and Resample Image, should they remain ticked? Also I did not enter any numbers in the height and width boxes. I tried 1920 x 1080 in the Fit Into window but that didn’t work either. Any further help would be appreciated.
Michael Slowe
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Jaeson, have you had to export stills from a programme because that’s when I get the aspect problem? Could you do one and see if you get a 16:9 frame from a 16:9 programme because mine are only coming out 4:3. Anyone else having this? Never had it with older versions.
Michael Slowe
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You don’t say in which part of the world you are operating, it is quite a distance between continents!
How are you viewing your footage? Playing to a screen or monitor direct from the camera, downloading files and viewing through a computer or just playing clips on the camera screen? Also, a lot depends on what your camera set up is. Not hopefully on auto anything, lowest gain setting possible, and no added filters. Within Picture Profiles you can set your own Kelvin settings, why not experiment with that to choose your own White Balance? Otherwise take the camera to a Sony workshop or a major Sony Agent and do your comparisons.
Michael Slowe
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Media 100 has saved my life! After editing film for years I had to convert to digital and was computer illiterate. A friend suggested Media 100 to me and I’ve never regretted it. Easy to use, very stable, does all most editors would require and is constantly up dating to keep abreast of modern developments such as tapeless workflow and the new high bit rate cameras.
You may want to get some personal ‘hands on tuition’ which can be arranged with a re seller of Media 100 and I suggest that you do this rather than buy on line but many here will not support this suggestion I’m sure.
Michael Slowe
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Jeff, don’t you think that 8mbps is a bit too high if you want to be absolutely certain that the DVD will play in all players? That’s often the reason for problems in playing. I find that 6.5 to 7 is safer and won’t make any appreciable difference to the quality. Using this setting as an average with a double pass encode gives very good results with BitVice as the encoder.
Michael Slowe
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It all depends of course on the length of the production but, depending on what encoding software you are using, you can set a bit rate which will use more of the disc and at the same time give you a better quality DVD.
Michael Slowe
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It’s worse than you think as the MPEG 2 compression for DVD really degrades the picture. Blu-Ray is better but still compresses considerably from the original.
Michael Slowe