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Creating Hi-Def DVDs Using Regular 4.7GB Type 5 DVDs

zoom-in.com — Todd Howard Blogs: I was reading through some of Ken Stone's Final Cut Pro articles on his site this morning, and stumbled upon a How-To by Rick Young from MacVideo that takes us step by step through creating a Hi-Def DVD using standard DVD-G (DVD-5) 4.7GB media using DVD Studio Pro 4. I had no idea this was even possible. Check out the How-To!

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  • clairedev, on 10/12/2007, -4/+4this is a great workflow--thanks for posting it!!
    • seether166, on 10/12/2007, -4/+49Sorry for the comment abuse but...

      Here is the real article, minus the initial blog part which adds nothing:
      http://www.kenstone.net/fcp_homepage/hd_dvds_on_sd_dvds_young.html
    • no_root_toe, on 10/12/2007, -8/+2DVD players still can only output a maximum of 480p, so this can only be used for high resolution computers...unless... can the xbox 360 play burned dvds and output them to high resolutions?
    • david76, on 10/12/2007, -15/+27@seether

      I don't think you understand Digg. The point is to link to sites which write about articles. Linking to an actual article would defeat the whole purpose.
    • colto, on 10/12/2007, -5/+3I don't know why david76 is getting dugg down. It's called sarcasm guys...
    • sych0, on 10/12/2007, -2/+5can we stop calling them 4.7gb discs when they're actually 4.3?
    • goofballjm, on 10/12/2007, -2/+3@david76
      "The point is to link to sites which write about articles. Linking to an actual article would defeat the whole purpose."

      I disagree, that's what the summary at the top of the page does. It tells us a brief summary or quote from the article itself. It's rather pointless to have digg link to a blog that links to another article. That's the definition of blog spam last I checked. Alleviate the middle man. Correct me if I'm wrong.

      @colto
      You think he would mention if he was being sarcastic or not.
    • Arkz, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3@sych0:
      Dont you mean 4.4?
    • unknownsoldierX, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5@Arkz

      Don't you mean 4.38?
    • Arkz, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Touche
    • arrenlex, on 10/12/2007, -3/+2@colto
      You think he would mention if he was being sarcastic or not.

      I think that's what people have BRAINS for, although you may have misplaced yours. Explaining that you were joking defeats the entire purpose of making the joke.

      In case you didn't understand the above, I was insulting you for being a moron.

      In case you didn't understand the above, I was explaining that I was insulting you for being a moron.

      In case you didn't understand the above, I was explaining that I was explaining that I was insulting you for being a moron.
  • xxbrighteyed, on 10/12/2007, -2/+3Brilliant find, i'm getting onto it as soon as i get home, Dugg!
  • neeyo, on 10/12/2007, -4/+45Remember when we used 650 meg CD-R's to make miniDVD's? Like sands through the hourglass, those were the days of our lives...
  • jnavarre, on 10/12/2007, -1/+49There isn't some "magical* HD component of HD-DVD and blu-ray, they just hold a lot more data. You could put HD content on a CD if you wanted to.. it would only be a few minutes worth but you could do it.
    • neeyo, on 10/12/2007, -1/+27Why would you digg that down? He's just making a point and not insulting the original article.

      By my calculations, a CDR would hold less than 8 minues of HD video... damn that's just funny.
      • hddigger, on 01/04/2008, -0/+1Actually, a CD can hold a full half-hour tv show. In x264, TV eps come in under 600 megs.
    • david76, on 10/12/2007, -2/+9Exactly, this article implies that it's some miracle that you can put HD content on a standard DVD. You just have to be able to read from the medium fast enough to keep up with the demands of the video's bit rate.
    • ahhell, on 10/12/2007, -0/+10There's no magic in Blu-ray?!?!?!?

      Thanks for crushing my belief in Sony.

      I feel so empty now.
      /cry
    • Arkz, on 10/12/2007, -0/+54.4-8GB 720p/1080p x264 HD-DVD Rips FTW!!!
  • TheWriteGuy, on 10/12/2007, -8/+5What would be even cooler is if one could trick an HD-DVD or Blu-ray player to recognize a standard DVD-R (or +R) disc as an HD-DVD/Blu-ray disc. That would be a boon to indie filmmakers shooting video shorts on hi-def.
    • vandalet, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5thats quite possible, and i believe that is what this article is explaining how to do.
    • MagicBobert, on 10/12/2007, -2/+2@vandalet

      No, that's not what this article is about. You can't make set-top players recognize DVD-5 discs as HD-DVD or Bluray.

      The discs created in this tutorial ONLY play back on computers, and from what I understand, ONLY on Macs.
    • jacenat, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6"The discs created in this tutorial ONLY play back on computers, and from what I understand, ONLY on Macs."

      the discs will play back fine on windows and linux with vlc or mplayer.
      that beeing said, this "method" is availibe on the pc .. well since the upcomming of x264.
  • SuperJimmyJimbo, on 10/12/2007, -9/+3settle down kids, the discs only play back on G5 or intel based mac using Mac OS DVD player.

    still cool though

  • rabidstrikes, on 10/12/2007, -8/+6lame........
    might as well compress into x264....
    the lamest topic ever to hit front page
    • joshuakuhn, on 10/12/2007, -4/+1i may have flunked algebra 2, but x=h?
    • MySchizoBuddy, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1x264 is an opensource implementation of H.264 Standard
  • dodgyd55, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3or not compress it and have the impracticality of two discs, but that is pretty cool if you really wanna try it
  • tange1, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2Shouldn't any modern system w/ Quicktime (including a windows box) be able to play this back? They used H.264 which is included in Quicktime for windows, right?
    • skytimelapse, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Yes. You can use any HD spec file and use the free DeepBurner (or ANY burner I think) to burn it to a data DVD. It's insanely easy.
  • ArthurSucks, on 10/12/2007, -1/+9Wait, so it can only play back on your computer? Might as well just make it a h264/mp4.
  • kidcodea, on 10/12/2007, -6/+1lame... and obvious.
    of coz u can, like u can create a short dvd on a cd etc.
    while at it, might compress it with x264 and enjoy full lenght 4.5gb rips.
    • joshuakuhn, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3might as well learn how to type too...
  • vdubski, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Here is the summary from the article.

    "This article can be virtually summed up in few lines, which is: "if you want to make HD Dvds onto 4.7 GB DVD-Rs then set the preferences in DVD Studio Pro to the HD format required, encode your assets through Compressor, and then follow the same procedure as one has used to make SD DVDs." To arrive at this conclusion took quite a bit of experimentation and testing of various methods. While the process is quite straightforward finding my way through this unchartered terrain has been quite a journey. Good luck in your own quest to produce HD DVDs."
  • Trekkie711, on 10/12/2007, -9/+7for macs? usless to 95% of the world
  • shawnz, on 10/12/2007, -2/+1...........how could you "not know" that it was possible to change the resolution of video to be placed on a dvd?
  • headhunters, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Would it be real HD 720p or 1080p? If not then yea, nm...
    • jacenat, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1its real 720p or 1080i (from the article it seems that the menu only supports 1080i, but not 1080p).
    • Jozer99, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1This article only covers 720p and 1080i, but it seems old. It might now be possible. I wonder how many minutes you could get onto a disk though, 1080p uses 2x the space of 1080i, so that would only be 25 minutes per DVD.
  • EvolvedAnt, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5If you didn't already know that HD works on any media as long as it fits (which they do if you use a double layered disc and remove all the useless extras like 5 language support, special features, commentary, etc) , then Sony's marketing and hype machine worked. The main reason they pushed so hard for the new disc formats is not so much the extra space, as much as it is the useless DRM they could implement.
  • kanefsky, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4This has been discussed since last July over in AVS Forum. There are over 1400 messages in the thread: http://www.avsforum.com/avs-vb/showthread.php?t=705146
  • arkowi, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Pretty old news, the Apple DVD player software has settings for HD playback right in the preferences.

    I have taken some HD recordings from my EyeTV 500 and made an HD disc that will play back in the Mac DVD player, but I had to use lab computers at school since I don't have DVD Studio Pro. At first I thought this was going to be a way to do it *without* DVD studio pro, now that would be interesting.
  • hddigger, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1pointless tutorial. what to stop anyone from encoding any hd video and putting it on a dvd? Jeez, I have over 100 HD tv episodes (Lost, The Office, House, My Name Is Earl, American Idol) on DVDs.
  • crossers, on 07/11/2008, -0/+0very interesting and useful information. thanks for article!
    http://www.ocflex.com/
    http://www.trgovinca.org
    http://www.chasr.org/
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