HD output

Now we have mastered Compressor and we are happy with the way our x264 output looks for the web.

Many thanks to Ken and Andy for their advice on this.

Can anybody tell us the best way to get our HD output from Compressor onto HD DVD, for say a promotional video looping on a HD TV in a shop window?

At the very least will we need iDVD studio and some kind of HD/Blu-ray DVD burner. (We only have iMacs).

Any advice would be much appreciated.

Craig
Egypt.

Thanks David. I'll look into that.

If one is compressing for delivery via a media drive ( I have an Omega media drive with HDMI and Component outputs ) what's the best compressor output format to use?

Thanks again,

Craig.

Hi Ken

Using the HDMI or component outputs, the user can choose video settings from 480i/480p/720p/1080i (720p and1080i are achieved through upscaling). Supported media formats include MP3, AC3 (Dolby® Digital Encoding), WAV, WMA, MPEG-1, MPEG-2 (AVI/VOB), MPEG-4 (AVI/DiVX 3.11, 4.x, 5.x/XViD) and JPEG.

Thanks

Craig

Hi Craig, I assume you are talking about an iOmega media drive. I Googled it and for HD purposes it uses H264 so I would guess that you need to compress to H264 and dump it on the iOmega to play out to a TV.

Hope this helps

Hey XGTV

Thanks for your reply. I'll do some tests on that then..in the meantime, can you tell me what kind of results we could expect from a H264 file? Would that be the way forward for the 'in house HDTV' option? I'm thinking of expense for the client V quality of output.

Thanks

Craig