Major loss in HD Quality

Zippie wrote on 9/15/2010, 1:21 PM
I have recently completed a project in Sony Movie Studio HD Platinum and saved on my hard drive in Sony AVCHD 1920x 1080-50i 5.1 Surround format. As per the usual I used DVD architect to complete the whole project.

But...the moment I watched the DVD on various DVD players I was pretty disapointed with the loss of quality... Anybody any advice on how maintain the HD quality as played through a sony video cam.

Comments

Eugenia wrote on 9/15/2010, 1:35 PM
No, DVDs are not HD. They are 480i, not 1080i. As you can understand, that's 3-4 times worse. You need to buy a Blu-Ray player, and burn AVCHD discs instead of DVDs (no need to purchase Blu-Ray burner, AVCHD discs are DVD disks, but the quality in them is HD -- but you need a Blu-Ray **player** on your TV).

I'd suggest you go for the Sony PS3 game console, if you're into games too. It's features the fastest-loading Blu-Ray player in the market (because of its faster CPUs compared to appliance-centric Blu-Ray players). The added value of the PS3 is that it can also play MP4 files, so there won't be a need to actually burn HD discs, it can play them from its hard drive directly!

But if you're not into games and really want optical discs, and don't want to pay the extra money, go to Walmart and get a cheaper Blu-Ray player.

For friends and family though, they'd have to either stay with low quality DVD, or they have to buy BD players too.
JohnnyO wrote on 9/15/2010, 5:50 PM
"You need to buy a Blu-Ray player, and burn AVCHD discs instead of DVDs"

I thought someone posted that you can burn an AVCHD disk to DVD. I think all you need to do is in properties, choose Blue-Ray for the disc format, size 4.7GB. For video format choose AVC.
Eugenia wrote on 9/15/2010, 5:59 PM
This is exactly what I wrote above. The word DVDs there denoted the standard DVD 480i protocol, not the DVD *discs*. I clearly explained to the user that he can burn AVCHD on plain DVDs, when I mentioned that he doesn't need a Blu-Ray burner.

But he still needs a Blu-Ray player to play these AVCHD discs.
TOG62 wrote on 9/16/2010, 2:29 AM
There a have been several discussions in this forum and on the DVD Architect forum about the ability of both programs to create AVCHD discs. The conclusion seems to be that they cannot, although they can produce discs that play on some, especially Sony, Blu-ray players.

A much higher level of compatibility can be achieved by either applying various fixes or by using different software. I create AVCHD DVDs by editing in VMS 10, exporting m2ts files and then authoring with multiAVCHD.
Zippie wrote on 9/16/2010, 12:07 PM
Thanx for the info, it realy helps.

I knew there was a compelling reason to buy a PS3. I love Video editing...and love games even more!!!

Much appreciated!