Distributing HDV

tygrus2000 wrote on 11/13/2005, 9:57 AM
I see so many people working in this format, but I certainly dont see any products on the market to let us distribute to the consumers. Where are the HD-DVD or blue-ray burners? No word about these at all.

I can only assume in the meantime that people shooting HDV are rendering down to a lower resolution format for the time being.

Comments

JohnnyRoy wrote on 11/13/2005, 11:40 AM
The burners are coming. Delivery on SD DVD Widescreen is probably the most common format right now. You can also burn an HD WMV file to a data DVD for people to view on their PC. I also think you can burn a 20 minute HD DVD on regular DVD’s but there are only one or two players that can read it.

Yes, distribution is limited but getting hands on experience in shooting HD is most people’s focus right now. It’s different than shooting DV and takes a while to get use to (i.e., framing for 16:9, monitoring focus closely, lighting, not being able to cheat on the quality of what you shoot, etc.).

~jr
Spot|DSE wrote on 11/13/2005, 11:57 AM
You can also frameserve to Nero and deliver this way.

There is also QT H264 available in a variety of encoders, and REAL can deliver HD content too. If you wish, you can author a computer-only playback of HD using FrontPage, Fireworks, or any other HTML authoring application.
Steve Mann wrote on 11/15/2005, 12:10 AM
There's also a few DVD players with MPEG4, WMV and DIVx decoders built in.

The fact is, I doubt that anyone is delivering HD right now - there's no media and no player yet. When the players finally hit the market sometime next year(???) you can count on them starting at several hundred dollars per copy, and when you can finally burn your own, expect the hardware and media to be equally expensive.

In the meantime, look for a $50 DVD player with MPEG4, WMV and DIVx decoders, and deliver HD content on regular 40-cent DVD-R media. It may not be HD, but it could still be better than SD.

Steve
JJKizak wrote on 11/15/2005, 5:31 AM
You can also just send them the m2t file if they have the HD tuner cards on their computers.

JJK
DefcomDMC wrote on 11/15/2005, 3:40 PM
I am right now trying to get an 90 min HDV project off my system. I'd like to render a wmv file for the client. But I'm having problems...1. There's "banding"(best way to describe it) in the video. If there's any intense action the rendered file has a bunch of way bands. The banding doesn't appear when I preview or prerender.
2. Output size. What's the best way to cram a wmv onto a DVD? If dual layer is better I'll do it?
3. Is wmv the way to go, or is there a better way? Quicktime? wmvHD?

I need help.