Burning HD footage to DVD

rodgers73
rodgers73 Posts: 2,626
edited August 2012 in The cake stop
I want to put about 1hr 40 of HD footage onto a DVD.

What sort of blank DVD should I buy?

Do they have varying levels of quality etc?

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  • inkyfingers
    inkyfingers Posts: 4,400
    You need a Blu Ray disk, and you'll also need to check that your drive can write to a Blu Ray disk.
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  • sungod
    sungod Posts: 17,345
    rodgers73 wrote:
    I want to put about 1hr 40 of HD footage onto a DVD.

    What sort of blank DVD should I buy?

    Do they have varying levels of quality etc?

    depends on...

    - what disks your writer supports, the highest capacity single-sided dvds are double-layer (dl)
    - whether you actually want the footage in 'real' dvd format, or simply want to put the file on there for computer playback (or for a dvd player that'll cope with this too), if it's for computer playback you can use an hd file format, but standard dvd is not hd format so you'd need to downscale
    - what quality level, 'hd' could mean umpteen different frame sizes and data rates
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  • garryc
    garryc Posts: 203
    HD = Blu Ray
    SD = DVD

    You can't put HD on a DVD, you'll have to make a Blu Ray or sample it down to Standard Definition.
  • rodgers73
    rodgers73 Posts: 2,626
    Hmm, trickier than I thought. I doubt my PC can write blu-ray disks so it will have to be downgraded to SD.

    Does it matter what disk I use for this?

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