Edius Broadcast and HD-DVD

[witchdoctor Member Find all posts View Profile Close witchdoctor]

It seems that some of the HDV people are having good success authoring HD-DVD data from some of the cheaper NLEs onto standard DVDs using standard DVD burners. They get about 20 minutes of HD-DVD on a regular DVD disc (40 minutes on a double-sided disc), and the HD-DVD players apparently recognize the HD-DVD and output a HD signal. Most appear to be authoring in MPEG-2.

I use an HVX-200 with DVCPRO-HD. Is it possible to have Edius downconvert the DVCPRO-HD to a MPEG-2 or H.264 data file that could be used in a similar way to create a poor man's HD-DVD ?

[kwshaw1 Senior Member Find all posts View Profile Close kwshaw1]

I use an HVX-200 with DVCPRO-HD. Is it possible to have Edius downconvert the DVCPRO-HD to a MPEG-2 or H.264 data file that could be used in a similar way to create a poor man's HD-DVD ?

Should be, yes. Just edit in Edius Broadcast and use the "Speed Encoder" output option to render the results out to HDV, then pull that into something like Pinnacle Studio to author your HD-DVD.