Simple answers -

Capture - no
Print to tape - no
Edit - *yes
Render - yes

And for moire detailed answers, like wcoxe1 said, so a search for HD, also you can do a search for D-VHS and 'hardware support'.


* while HD footage can be edited with VV 4.0b/c is probably not going to anywhere near 'real time' unless you have a supercharged system. The "best" workflow I have read about so far is DSE's method of capturing HD with one system and having a DV stream spun off at the same time. He edits the DV material and when it is locked down he simply replaces all the DV material with the HD material. Than the 'edited' HD material goes back to another system for output.

Sorry if I am lame but in my search I didnt see the post you mentioned

Ok, here is a question.... I do a lot of photo montages. We all know resolution/color of a computer scan is way beyond NTSC standards, so we must "degrade" the image to account for broadcast colors and interlaced buzzing.

Here is my question: Can I take my photo montage and render to HD and benefit from the HD format (better resolution/color depth)?

Will a DVD player be able to read a HD dvd disc and display it correctly on an HD monitor? I have absolutly no HD gear what so ever, so I am wondering if I am missing something.

Thanks
Jack

There are no HD DVD players available as yet so not really an option.
What you can do however is within a HD project import HiRes stills (PNG is best way to go) and render out to a WMV 9 file for playback on a PC. I've tried this at 720p and it looks pretty good.

If you've got a DVD player connected to your TV via RGB or YUV the results are pretty good even starting from DV, a lot of quality that DV is capable of is lost in composite video connections.

For presentations I'd be looking for a video projector that accepts DVI input and produce WMV 9 720 HD files and play them back out of a PC straight into the projector. Be warned though you need a beefy PC!

Wouldn't a progressive scan DVD player hooked up to a HD monitor basically provide a HD experiance provided you rendered and burned to the right format? I'm seeing progressive DVD players that will run 480p component video. Are we getting close to HD with that?

Current DVD players cannot read HD content, progressive only means that you get 24 full frames per second...
Forget about reading HD on DVDs as of now, it's not possible. You'll have to wait for Blue-Ray discs.
480P is a SD (standard def) format.

>>> Sorry if I am lame but in my search I didnt see the post you mentioned<<<

D-VHS/HD -
http://sonicfoundry.com/forums/ShowMessage.asp?MessageID=195449&Page=0

VV and Hardware -
http://sonicfoundry.com/forums/ShowMessage.asp?MessageID=192837&Page=0

"JVC and HD and NLE..."
http://sonicfoundry.com/forums/ShowMessage.asp?MessageID=195541&Page=0

The Samsung HD-931 DVD player will upconvert your standard DVD to either 720P or 1080i (user selectable) and output via HDCP encrypted DVI connector. Not the same as a HD DVD, but I thought it might be interesting for the conversation.

Steve

Ok, good to know. So if someone had a progressive scan DVD player outputing to a digital or HD monitor could I render to 24p NTSC burn to DVD and get a higher resolution non interlaced image on their system?

Here's my point. I'm archiving photos and memoribila for my customers by creating photo montages. DVD has a great shelf life and image quality but it struck me that we are on the cusp of a new generation of consumer AV equipment (being HD). Here I am having to lightly blur high resolution photos in order for them not to buzz on a standard interlaced tv. Will rendering to 24p allow me to present a higher quality photo montage to customers with progressive scan dvd players and digital moniters?

Pardon me if I seem painfully unaware.

jack

You'll will still have to render at 480P... The dvd player will upconvert the signal, meaning it'll double the lines, which is not really good.
IF your customers have progressive displays it will be best for you to render progressive, Image quality should be nice (no interlace artifacts)

What may be coming in the near future is the possibility to read Windows Media 9 files on DVD players, you could then render at 720P. But it might be in quite a while....

The "buzz" is most likely due to the composite feed from the player to the TV. If it looks fine on PC playback is the best test. If they want archival storage why convert to video, jut scan and store the images as say PNG files on a DVD-ROM.

I think I read somewhere you can add extra files onto a DVD-Video without upsetting the DVD playback, that gives them the best of both worlds.

not to step on DSE's fine talents (which are many!) - but the method for using HD in vegas did not start with him .. in fact it was i who started the whole mess about HD and vegas a long long time time ago on the creative cow forum when i posted about an loophole in vegas - through an oversight really - that you could render out of vegas to hd using the mpeg2 encoder (and later QT) ..
SF original response to that was that it was going to be removed - but that luckly didnt happen..
since I pretty well only work with HD and film resolutions anyway (2k -8k) source files , using a proxy file in an application was a pretty standard thing in many apps and that it could be done in vegas also for extremly good work flow (it certainly wasnt my original idea - i just borrowed it) .. also the methods of frame serving into and (later) out of Vegas for HD content ... or rendering to frames thorugh QT ...

and capturing HD with vegas HD from HDCAM through SDI .. well cant say to much about it , but just wait very soon ...

So excatly what would I need to buy to capture , edit and output hd...aside from the camera

My new, $99 Toshiba, DVD player claims to play Windows Media 9, along with JPG, and just about everything else. I sure it doesn't cover EVERYTHING, but then what do you want for such an inexpensive progressive player.

1. lots of hard drive space
2. a sdi card and app that can read and write with it .. or a sdi to firewire convertor (note - some mac only sdi cards do have winNT drivers - though you have to search for them) . I don't know about the D-VHS solutions as i dont use such a thing - only hdcam, file images (mostly) and d-beta
3. vegas !

so if i bought something like this I could do it?

http://www.spcomms.com/daportal/


or this

http://www.lairdtelemedia.com/products/firewire.html

????