Burning avchd to dvd

[Toby1]

Getting avchd-stuff into iMovie or FCE seems to work fine, bur burning dvd's with iDVD or Toast 9 gives terribly disappointing results. Is Toast 10 anything better? Is the HD-plugin for Toast 10 a solution, or would you advise me to return my new Panasonic HDC-TM700 to the shop and get a more consumer-friendly camera?

[tsantee]

When exporting from FCE for making a standard-definition video DVD my brother found it best to choose the custom QuickTime export setting from FCE. There he chose the DVCPro NTSC setting (either 50 or 25 with 50 being less compression but twice the file size) and to mark the progressive scan box. He chose NTSC rather than PAL because he's in the U.S. Add that exported file to Toast.

 

If you are shooting in high definition and your goal is to play those videos at their best quality on your HDTV the best thing to do is get a WD TV or similar device that can play the h.264 video from a hard drive. You need the Blu-ray plug in if you want to create Blu-ray format discs. Blu-ray format can be burned to standard DVDs for playback on Blu-ray disc players although you don't have space for a lot of video on one disc.

[Toby1]

Thanks. I found that the beta version of Shedworx's HDVoltaic allows me to trim, edit and join native avchd-clips, which I then import in Toast 10 and burn as Blu-ray on a regular dvd. Works out great.

 

Sorry, I forgot: burning the same natively avchd-edited material in Toast 10 as a DVD on a DVD also gives good and very acceptable results (and longer playing time!).