Great Results!

[Roddy]

I discovered this whilst going through trying to get some kind of work flow set up for HD with HDV and DV footage.

 

I use Canon XHA1 cameras and normally film in DV. However I have obviously grabbed some HDV footage to author to a blu-ray disk once I got my Blu-ray burner and DVDIT Pro HD. The demo I created was of my new born son (2 weeks old) and our dogs. One of my dogs is a 12 year old Rottweiler, has been diabetic for 4 years and still going strong. Unless you don't know the average age of a Rottweiler is 10 - 10.5 years some a bit older so getting two insulin injections a day for 4 years and being 12 is a miracle for us. I decided to capture some footage of him to have a good memory when he departs this world.

 

The point I`m getting at is I made a demo disk in 1920 x 1080 resolution. On the beginning I used several clips filmed in DV "720 x 576" and HDV "1440 x 1080". I edited to show DV footage first then wiped the same image over with the HDV footage so people could see the difference. Whilst doing this the wife said can you do a normal DVD for me and my dad as well, so I exported a DVD image of the project from DVDIT Pro HD. Now heres the great part.

 

When I put the DVD in a normal standard DVD player after burning the image from DVDIT Pro HD, Up came the DV footage looking quite nice. I was expecting the HDV footage to look identical as it had been down converted to DV from HDV format but guess what! the image went crystal clear and it loked like it had been filmed on a really high end camera in higher res than DV although it was being displayed on a normal (non HD TV) from a normal DVD player.

 

Just so some boffins out there may want to try this, I exported the DV footage from premiere as DV AVI and exported the HDV footage from premiere as Adobe encoder/ Mpeg2/ VBR 2 pass/normal 15,000Kbts with no sound. I then exported the sound as a wav file.

 

I imported the files into DVDIT Pro HD and added the sound file under the footage.

 

 

Im amazed that the quality exported from DVDIT Pro HD from a HD project to a DVD project and will be using this technique on some high end corporate stuff for DV.

 

So well done guys! Top Banana!

 

Roddy

[john e]

I discovered this whilst going through trying to get some kind of work flow set up for HD with HDV and DV footage.

 

I use Canon XHA1 cameras and normally film in DV. However I have obviously grabbed some HDV footage to author to a blu-ray disk once I got my Blu-ray burner and DVDIT Pro HD. The demo I created was of my new born son (2 weeks old) and our dogs. One of my dogs is a 12 year old Rottweiler, has been diabetic for 4 years and still going strong. Unless you don't know the average age of a Rottweiler is 10 - 10.5 years some a bit older so getting two insulin injections a day for 4 years and being 12 is a miracle for us. I decided to capture some footage of him to have a good memory when he departs this world.

 

The point I`m getting at is I made a demo disk in 1920 x 1080 resolution. On the beginning I used several clips filmed in DV "720 x 576" and HDV "1440 x 1080". I edited to show DV footage first then wiped the same image over with the HDV footage so people could see the difference. Whilst doing this the wife said can you do a normal DVD for me and my dad as well, so I exported a DVD image of the project from DVDIT Pro HD. Now heres the great part.

 

When I put the DVD in a normal standard DVD player after burning the image from DVDIT Pro HD, Up came the DV footage looking quite nice. I was expecting the HDV footage to look identical as it had been down converted to DV from HDV format but guess what! the image went crystal clear and it loked like it had been filmed on a really high end camera in higher res than DV although it was being displayed on a normal (non HD TV) from a normal DVD player.

 

Just so some boffins out there may want to try this, I exported the DV footage from premiere as DV AVI and exported the HDV footage from premiere as Adobe encoder/ Mpeg2/ VBR 2 pass/normal 15,000Kbts with no sound. I then exported the sound as a wav file.

 

I imported the files into DVDIT Pro HD and added the sound file under the footage.

 

 

Im amazed that the quality exported from DVDIT Pro HD from a HD project to a DVD project and will be using this technique on some high end corporate stuff for DV.

 

So well done guys! Top Banana!

 

Roddy

roddy,

what is the difference between downconverting your HDV footage using your NLE and using HDVitpro?(which i assume you are doing)

Is there a noticable difference between them?

I also film with canon xh-a1 s and always film in HDV, capture as ciniform avi then work in that format (1440 x 1080 25p)until the last moment when i finally render off in sony vegas

where I render to SD 16x9 7000 CBR.

All my work is filmed this way as you rightly say the difference is fantastic when downconverted. most people comment on the colour and clarity.

The only problem ive had is that I have always filmed in 25p not 50i and 25p is not part of the bluray spec so i have to convert all my films to 24p or render as 50i, which seems ok, but pointless having started in progressive 25p in the first place.

cheers john