Friday, March 9, 2007
HD-DVD Authoring for Home Movies
Posted by Jeremy Charette in "ARTICLE" @ 01:00 PM
"After shooting numerous hours of high definition video footage, I've been itching for a way to create some HD-DVDs. There are no HD-DVD burners on the market at the moment. And media seems to be in scarce supply. Sure, I could shell out $700 for a Blu-ray burner, but then I'd need to spend another $600 for a player that conveniently connects to my television (like a PS3, for instance). At least I can use the Xbox 360 HD-DVD player with Windows Vista or my 360, and there's now an HP HD-DVD player in the wild as well. When I found out Pinnacle added support for HD-DVD burning to Pinnacle Studio Plus, I was thrilled. Better yet, they do it by burning to standard 4.7GB DVDs or to 8.5GB dual layer disks."
Jake Ludington has posted a great article on how to create your own HD-DVDs using standard single or dual layer DVDs. There's two limitations: Pinnacle Studio doesn't support menus on HD-DVDs (yet), and you only get 23 or 46 minutes of playback time. That isn't much, but then again, who wants to watch more than 23 minutes of home videos? With the cost of HD camcorders dropping like a rock, this is an easy and low-cost way to share those HD home videos with family and friends. Assuming your family and friends have HD-DVD players, or Xbox 360s.
Jake Ludington has posted a great article on how to create your own HD-DVDs using standard single or dual layer DVDs. There's two limitations: Pinnacle Studio doesn't support menus on HD-DVDs (yet), and you only get 23 or 46 minutes of playback time. That isn't much, but then again, who wants to watch more than 23 minutes of home videos? With the cost of HD camcorders dropping like a rock, this is an easy and low-cost way to share those HD home videos with family and friends. Assuming your family and friends have HD-DVD players, or Xbox 360s.
