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Jeff,

I tried to bring one of my HD-DVDs to Best Buy yesterday and they couldn’t get the player to eject their demo disc! Can you believe that?! We tried everything, powering down, unplugging. Nothing would get it to eject. So that didn’t work out, I never got to test it. However, over on the DVD Studio Pro forum here at the Cow someone says they DID get their HD-DVD disc to play on the new Toshiba if it is coded in the MPEG2 format. When they tried H.264 format it would not play on the Toshiba. So good news in that HD-DVDs made on a PowerMac g5 should play on the new players.

I guess you do need a new powermac with a Superdrive to burn HD-DVDs. I just bought my first MAC a few months ago.

[Pfrederick]

Jeff, I can burn HD-DVDs on the drive. Are you saying those aren’t compliant HD-DVDs? I’ve burned them in HD-DVD format and gave them to others with newer G5’s and they can indeed see them in HD. There is NO DOUBT they are seeing it in HD. The picture on the computer screen (23″ Cinemascreen) is stunning and blows away any SD DVD played on the same drive. When the disc is inserted and played it will ask if you want the HD version or the SD version if you put both on the disc.

I really think the drive IS capable of playing an HD-DVD made in DVD STUDIO PRO. I just can’t figure why it won’t play a store bought HD-DVD.

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How come that DVD player will make (with DVD Studio Pro 4) an HD-DVD? I shoot HDV and edit in FCP 5, then in DVD Studio Pro, make an HD-DVD. That is what they are calling it when you fire up the program it asks if you want to make a SD-DVD or HD-DVD.

Is Apples HD-DVD not the same as the HD-DVD format that is out there now?

[Pfrederick]

I’ve had this problem before. Make sure you render in “Upper field” for HD/HDV or “Lower Field” in SD/DV. The reason it looks weird in RAM preview is because that is a FRAME render. It doesn’t look smooth on TV if you render in FRAME mode, unless the move is REALLY slow.

I’ve also noticed wavy effects to the ramp into and out of a move using easy ease paramaters. I’ve yet to figure a solution to this, I can tell you it is much less minimized in HD but the speed of the move also makes a difference on this “wavy” line flicker.

Hope this helps.

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Mylenium,

I’ve tried to set the Project Settings to various choices. (I discovered this is a new setting that wasn’t even on 6.5, this is in the FILE column, near the bottom)) I started with “HDTV 701”, same problem, then I tried “None”, same problem, then I tried NTSC, same problem. What should it be set to for HDV? I can’t see where I set it for each individual item as you suggest. Also I think I can now say, under closer examination that it is also raising the black level on the stills I’m importing too when it renders. When I’m working in AE, the output on the screen and to my external monitor (via KONA LH card) looks fine, it’s only after it renders that it looks washed out.

I’m at a total loss here! It would make sense that it’s the project settings but it doesn’t seem to matter.

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Actually I have the Kona LH card and I can send a downconverted SD signal, anamorphic or 4×3 LTBX, to an SD monitor. I highly recomend the Kona LH card. It works great with HDV.