Capturing 720p

[witchdoctor]

I have a non-commercial HD-DVD that I can play on a Toshiba HD-DVD player and which outputs a 720p signal to my TV via component or HDMI output. What options are available to convert or otherwise ingest this output into Edius Broadcast 4.0 ?

[GrassValley_KH]

Thomson Grass Valley Pegasus is the only solution we have at the moment, that could do this. Although I believe the HDMI capture would be disabled due to the way HD DVD players scramble output of even non-commercial titles - you'd likely have to capture via hd component.

[Roy Colquitt]

I have a non-commercial HD-DVD that I can play on a Toshiba HD-DVD player and which outputs a 720p signal to my TV via component or HDMI output. What options are available to convert or otherwise ingest this output into Edius Broadcast 4.0 ?

Can you get the file off of the HD-DVD? I'm only going with loose theory here--nothing I've done, but shouldn't you be able to do some kind of simple conversion to a HDV TS? Maybe with MPEG Stream Clip or similar?

[GrassValley_KH]

There are applications that can do this, but they are of questionable legality. (regardless of the current situation here)

[GrassValley_BH]

If the component output isn't protected or downscaled, then you'd be able to capture the component output with Pegasus.

There are also converters that convert DVI/HDMI to RGB for displays.
Again, questionable legality, but it seems a number of folks with game consoles and older non-compliant or problematic displays have been using them with success.

[Roy Colquitt]

So, this got me curious enough to do a little testing. The HDDVD has .EVO files instead of the .VOB files a DVD has. I authored a test HDDVD to a hard disk directory. I renamed the EVO file with a recognized mpeg extension, and it imported into Edius and played on the timeline just fine.

I doubt you'd want to try to edit with it, but either the Edius timeline or Procoder would provide an way to encode the file to an editing codec.