Make DVD using HDV mpeg 2

shark blade wrote on 3/29/2008, 8:59 PM

Hello,

bit new to this. was wondering if it is possible with DVDA 4.5 to make a DVD using a HDV mpeg2 1440x1080 clip, and keep the footage in HDV. In the properties of the dvd architect, it only gives options to go up to 720. Hence it renders down any HDV footage.

Any help on this would be great

thanks

Comments

Terje wrote on 3/29/2008, 9:18 PM

Given that a DVD can not contain HD footage, no, you can not make a DVD using HD. You can scale it down to SD obviously, but putting anything other than 480 (nope, you can't do 720 either) on a DVD will make it unplayable in any DVD player.

If you want to put HD footage on a DVD you have to create an AVCHD disk, but this can of course not be played in any DVD player, it will only play in Blu-Ray players.

Sadly, Sony doesn't yet support creating AVCHD disks, or BDMV disks for that matter, from DVDA, so you are out of luck there. The best option would be to use Ulead DVD Movie Factory with the HD add-on.