I captured my mini dv tapes which had HDV footage on them. It said they were capturing in "MPEG2 1440 x 1080"

I brought them into Videowave 10, got them ready, and then sent them to MYDVD so that I could then burn them in High Definition to a standard DVD disc. I read that you could do this - that a blu-ray player could play a regular DVD in high definition. Only, the mydvd 10 project settings only list 720x480 as the best video quality, and it gives no option to make a disc that can be played in a blu-ray player.

Now, I noticed that there are these options in Videowave. You can go to "output as" and select different High Defintion/Blu-Ray options.

Can you only burn Standard Definition discs from MYDVD?

I would like to have a menu, but if I can't encode to High Definition from MYDVD, I'd like to know what setting I need to choose in Videowave so that I can play HD on a regular DVD disc in a blu-ray player.

Depends… I don’t have EMC 10 anymore so I can’t check it, but you can!

MyDVD – File – New Project, do you see AVCHD available? (I don't think it is)

If so, that is the one you want.

If not, then I guess it was only added in 2009 and 2010.

Now it is possible that your Player may play AVCHD files directly and you could output them from VideoWave and use Creator Classic to burn tehm as a Data Disc. Something else to try...

Thank you for your reply.

No, it doesn't have the AVCHD option or anything else regarding HD in MYDVD 10. Which is unfortunate since I told my client that I would burn them an HD version of the wedding video with menu that I already created. Now It looks like my only HD option with this software is to burn it without a menu. That seems very odd.

Maybe you have a suggestion for this other problem am experiencing:

After bringing some HDV footage into videowave...it will play fine. But if I split the clip suddenly during playback it will freeze up at the split for about 3 seconds. This freeze up is not just during the preview, but on the actual burned DVD. It doesn't do this at every split..but about every 4th time or so.

I upgraded my computer, thinking it was the fact that I didn't have enough ram or a dual core computer, but now that I've upgraded to 6 GB of ram, with the 64 bit version of windows vista, and a 3.4 ghz dual core computer, it does the same thing.

The only thing I've found that will fix it, is to go to every place where it's freezing up (start of all those clips) and keep hitting frame advance until the preview actually moves (after hitting it about 8 times) and then I reset the start point to there. A lot of work to do when there are freeze ups all over the place.

It's as if, when I split the clip, it multiplies the first frame about 8 times. Weird.

This is HDV footage, captured to MPEG2, and when I watch the captured footage, all is fine. It's just when I start splitting up the footage, I have this problem.

You are slapping a band-aid fix on software that was never designed to do what you want it to, don't complain about what's missing… Or upgrade!

Don't know about the hesitation, never seen it on any the AVCHD DVD's or Blu-ray's I make. I'm using a lot less PC than what you have. RAM is irrelevant to render, needs about 300 MB.

Might try Tools - Options - Render, and set it to Software...