Papa_Bear
Contributor
I'm pretty sure Marshall is not recording underwater uncompressed 1080p via HDMI to a separate hard drive. Who is ? Maybe a few pro's, but no hobbyist is doing it. I think he and most of us are looking to create a blu-ray disk that looks as good as the original raw footage recorded to the camcorder. That means HDV, a compressed consumer HD format, 1080i on tape or AVCHD on the camcorder drive.
The sw programs mentioned, Nero, Pinnicle and Vegas create blu-ray discs on standard DVD by rendering the original footage to AVCHD which compresses the original raw camcorder recorded footage. The file size is going to be a lot smaller than 1940x1080p uncompressed footage recorded via HDMI.
I don't know if Marshall created a standard DVD or not, but just because the file size is smaller than 25mb per second does not automatically mean it's a standard DVD.
Thanks, but I understood completely! HDV or any compressed format is going to be more than one gig for 20 minutes is all I am saying and therefore very degraded HD! If you render in 720x480p it is low HD, but it is HD and with up-scaling DVD players including newer Blu-Ray's the quality is wonderful! But putting it on a standard DVD is convenient and cost effective, but if his video is using one gig for 20 minutes it is not the best you can get or that will play in all DVDs! That was my point! I was pointing it out and that for a little money or sometimes bundled in existing programs that you can make a Low HD standard DVD that will play on just about all the DVD players in use! I was using the HDMI to prove the amount of data needed for true HD and Blu-ray! That was my only point about size! True Blu-Ray disk is 38 gigs because it has to be to handle the HD data!
I produce 720x480p HDV DVDs that play on any DVD player made in the last 3 years and on the up scaling ones you would be hard pressed to tell the difference between the it and a much more expensive Blu-Ray, again bang for the buck!