WideScreen conventional DVDs from Sony HD cams

t-keats wrote on 6/13/2007, 2:04 PM

I've been away from these forums for a while.

Are any of you taking your Sony HD camera footage and burning it to conventional DVDs using Sony VEGAS 6?

I did it with some 3.2MP still camera images in WideScreen mode (through Vegas set up menus) and also used some demo wmv file footage off the web.

It all looked great on my 32" HD LCD-TV - not quite HD but better than my SD footage to DVD which is very good but not WS .

What's it like doing a VEGAS DVD in WS from moving scenes captured on an HC1, an AU1 or an HC7?

Does it look pretty close to HD on cable? Is there much pixelation since it's recording in MPEG2 format?

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riredale wrote on 6/13/2007, 4:23 PM

It looks just like a regular DVD, maybe a tiny bit less sharp because the 720 horizontal pixels per row have to extend all the way across a 16:9 window rather than just a 4:3 window (if you're comparing on an HD set that is; on a 4:3 set it looks a little sharper but you have letterbox).

I don't do anything in 4:3 any more.

farss wrote on 6/13/2007, 10:24 PM

If you edit HDV and encode directly to mpeg-2 for DVD the results can look pretty spectacular, especially from the better HDV cameras. You get close to 4:2:2 sampling during the downconvert and more resolution than you can use.
The biggest single factor though in how anything coming off a DVD looks is how you connect the DVD player to the TV, component is the best way to go and composite (the traditional A/V yellow, red and white cable) is the worst.

Bob.