WMV or AVI dvd quality

[timtheenchanteruk]

We filmed our production a couple of weeks ago, and I have just finished editing the first draft or the first half, and want to run a copy off for proof watching by someone else, Ive seen it so many times now I see what I think it should be not what it is.

The production was filmed in SD 4:3, on some high end consumer cameras, all edited in DV.

now to get it to DVD I would just render to DV and whack it through the DVD authoring software, but I dont want to waste a disc (or time) doing this, I just want to stick it on a memory stick.

 

any reccomendations for bitrate/resolutions (was thinking 720x480, bitrate of 4Mbit/s)

second bit to this, as I dont have one, is can a TV with a usb slot cope with this quality of video through its ports??)

[madorangepanda]

It depends entirely on the TV, find out a make and model and you should be able to find what formats, bitrates etc it will read.

[paulears]

720 x 576 is the PAL frame size, 480 is the US version - so if you render it out in 480 - then how it fills the frame might be kind of unpredictable?

[timtheenchanteruk]

ah, cheers for that paul (must check next time!!)

 

Will check the TV specs tomorrow, see what it can handle (should be ok, its a HD TV, so if it cant handle SD DVD quality files, the function is a bit pointless!!

[paulears]

My Samsung doesn't care too much - and when I rendered some files at the US frame size, I didn't even know for months until I played the dvd on somebody elses TV and a black band top and bottom appeared. My Samsung just stretches it - and distorts circles.