HDV will work on Blu-Ray or HD-DVD, correct?

prairiedogpics wrote on 5/25/2005, 10:27 AM
Admittedly, I'm a little confused here. But the new Sony HDV Cam(s) due out in July has me psyched (HC1/A1). But if I get it, I want to be future-proofed as far as distributing my HD content on disc.
So, am I correct in assuming I'll be able to render HDV footage to an "HD" format that will work on EITHER Blue-Ray or HD-DVD media and players when they hit the market? (I understand that the disc format will have to be one or the other; at this point there is no agreement/spec about dual-compatibility.) In other words, will I be able to make one Blu-Ray disc and one HD-DVD disc from my HDV footage?
I would be rendering to MPEG-4 format, correct? Ugh, I'm all confused.

Thanks for any clarification.

Dan

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prairiedogpics wrote on 5/25/2005, 1:07 PM
My question isn't that irrelevent, is it?
Coursedesign wrote on 5/25/2005, 1:29 PM
Of course you'll be able to render your HDV footage to a variety of codecs for Blu-Ray and/or HD-DVD, probably to include VC-1 (Windows Media) and MPEG-4 AVC for both of them, and likely a bunch more.

You can be pretty sure that Vegas will add support for this too, and if there was some variant missing in the meantime, you could use 3rd party codecs and/or encoders.

You're an early worrier!
:O)
prairiedogpics wrote on 5/25/2005, 1:52 PM
As a matter of fact, I am! ;)
B_JM wrote on 5/25/2005, 2:15 PM
mpeg2 is also supported .... in fact - it is what HDV is , and (except for the audio) , doesn't require re-encoding at all - just re-multiplexing , authoring with re-encoded audio) and changing the reported resolution to trick blu-ray ..
riredale wrote on 5/25/2005, 5:12 PM
Now I'm a little confused. HD-DVD and BluRay are just storage formats, right? In other words, you install an HD-DVD drive on your PC next year, and it shows up as just another drive. You put in a blank HD-DVD disk, and you can burn 20+GB. Nothing to do with specific decoders, as far as I know.

As for specific formats played by current DVD players or future HD-DVD or BluRay players, that's still up in the air. Right now my little $40 Apex player sitting here beside me can play DVD disk formats, as well as mp3 and VCD formats. Some players can also play wmv, I think. But, again, the formats are a different matter than what kind of disk you put inside.
Coursedesign wrote on 5/25/2005, 6:59 PM
I think he was talking about which video formats each disk organization would support as standard VIDEO formats, not related to their use as data disks.
prairiedogpics wrote on 5/25/2005, 7:52 PM
Coursedesign is right in his assumption about my question.
farss wrote on 5/25/2005, 10:54 PM
If you can play it on the Vegas TL you can put it on anything, if I can put video from 8mm film onto a DVD then putting HDV onto a BluRay disk would have to be a no brainer.
The bigger issues for all of us will be:
What will a burner cost
What will an authoring app cost
What encoders do we need and what will they cost

Once we have those three issues under control ANY video will be able to be put on the disk.
Bob.
FuTz wrote on 5/26/2005, 3:47 AM
... and how long it will take to sort out the good from the bad for blank discs...(?) : P