Best Quality Edited HDV Video

robsvideo wrote on 9/10/2007, 11:55 PM

I own a Sony HDR-HC7 and I see that Sony Vegas Pro 8.0 allows you to print your edited HD video to HDV tape so that you can then connect your camcorder via HDMI to your television set. Do you think the edited HD video created in this way would be as good a quality as the video that is on the original tape?

Another question, if you render your HD video as an MPEG-2 file (so you can make a DVD) and you use the blu-ray 1920 x 1080-50i template, will the edited video quality from your DVD be as good as on your original HDV tape if the DVD is played back on a Sony blu-ray DVD player?

I am trying to decide whether it is worthwhile to buy a blu-ray DVD player / recorder, and I want to ensure that if I do this, the edited DVD video quality would be as good as I could get from printing the edited video to HDV tape and playing it back from my camcorder.

Do you need to make a blu-ray disc for best quality, or will a DVD+RW disc suffice using the 1080-50i template?

I'm a newbie at HDV, so thanks very much for your help.

Regards, Rob

Comments

busterkeaton wrote on 9/11/2007, 12:18 AM

A standard DVD will not allow for HD viewing. That is why Blue Ray and HD-DVD were developed.

I think you edit HDV back to tape would be very slightly lower in quality in Vegas 7. It might take a trained eye to notice this. In Vegas Pro 8, if you use the 32 bit processing, it will probably be the same as the original. Either way should look very high quality.

robsvideo wrote on 9/11/2007, 12:58 AM

Thanks Buster for this information. I came across this article that says you can make a DVD that will play back 720p or 1080i content with your existing DVD-Rs:

http://www.engadgethd.com/2006/07/03/how-to-make-your-own-hd-dvds-on-dvd-rs/

But I guess it would be much better and easier if you did record on blu-ray discs, you certainly would get a lot more HD content on a blu-ray disc than you would on a DVD-R.

Regards, Rob

blink3times wrote on 9/11/2007, 2:25 AM

If you want to create HD DVD's on dvd-r (called 3xDVD). then your best bet is to export your work (when finished editing) to file, then import to Pinnacle studio, or Ulead VMS. These programs will allow you to burn 3xDVD. At least that's my work flow. I've probably burned about 100 of them so far and it works well.

Laurence wrote on 9/11/2007, 5:22 AM

You can burn HD video on either format: in HD DVD it's called a 3x DVD and in Blu-ray it's called an AVCHD disc.

robsvideo wrote on 9/11/2007, 2:56 PM

Thanks for these replies. My Sony HDR-HC7 camcorder is a tape model, not an AVCHD model, so if I burned my edited video on a blu-ray disc, I hope it wouldn't be converted to AVCHD? I think AVCHD is somewhat inferior at this stage to the HD video recorded on tape?

I was mainly interested to know whether people are making satisfactory HD DVDs from the output of their HD tape camcorders, and whether the quality of the video on the DVDs matches the original quality of the HD video on the tape?

Regards

Rob

blink3times wrote on 9/11/2007, 3:09 PM

"I was mainly interested to know whether people are making satisfactory HD DVDs from the output of their HD tape camcorders, and whether the quality of the video on the DVDs matches the original quality of the HD video on the tape?"
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Yes. You have to make sure that the editor you use has a smartrender system though. This way as little of the video actually gets rendered as possible.

If you do it right, it's about as lossless as one can get when going to disk. I personally can't tell the difference between the disk and the actual cam hooked to the tv.