Re: Burning 1920x1080

Howdy everyone, a wee while ago I was contemplating on purchasing a camera, and at that time was looking at the Canon xl1s. Well turns out, and with good timing, my friend from Aussie - for whom makes doco's and training videos - informed me he was selling his camera. So I went for that. It is the Panasonic HDC-Z10000. Really a dream to use.

Now, since up to this point I have only ever edited in SD, this is a bit new to me with Full HD. For the better part I seem to be getting around most factors. Just recently I filmed a wedding, and all up shot about 2h40m of footage.
I have authored a full disc in DVDSP, complete with motion menus, pages and links. So no prob there. Just when I go to build and burn, I get the HD-DVD structure to the hard drive no problem, but will bot burn to Standard DL 8.5 ritek disks. I am within the designated space on the disk, just comes back with an 'incompatible error'.
I guess I have a rather simple question that I do not know the answer…… do I have to burn FullHD to Blu Ray only?. Thought I might get away with using a standard DL disk, with splitting the videos into separate sections, maybe not the case.
I did try and grab the authored HDDVD structure from the hard drive and burn in toast, same issue, wrong format (after choosing <VIDEO TS> option.
I realize the Blu-Ray standard was designed to cater for the large sizes of HD. Is that non-negotiable?.

The video was shot in 1920x1080 / 50i. (PAL)

Thanks everyone!.

Pete

Hi Pete,

You picked the HD format which is the old, now defunct, Toshiba format. Pick either SD DVD or Blu-ray format for your 1920 x 1080 video,(both work with 1920 x 1080).

--ken

Thanks Ken, I shall try that. Cheers.

-Pete

Hi Ken, Sorry, just need to confirm what to do next :).
When you say choose either SD-DVD, or Blu-Ray, do you mean in the initial export from FCPX, or in DVDSP?.
At present I have a HDDVD structure authored to the HD, which works perfect with DVD player, just can't get that to disk. So would that be redundant and I need to re-export?

Thanks again,

Pete

Pete,

Talking about DVD SP.

Prefs > Project tab > DVD Standard > SD DVD.

Then build your project.

Where are you encoding, in Compressor or in DVD SP?

--ken

Oh thanks Ken,

Encoding in DVDSP. Is it wise to use compressor?.
I would have thought that changing the pref's to SP would create an SP DVD?. Would I not loose the HD widescreen?. Not sure.
Will try…..


Cheers.

-Pete

You can have 16 x 9 formatted video on a SD DVD.

You need to pick your DVD Standard 'SD DVD' and then build your DVD. You can not switch between HD DVD and SD DVD. You'll have to start over and author your DVD from scratch.

--ken

You can use either Compressor or DVD SP to encode. Compressor gives you more control over the encode settings.

--ken