Hello,
If using a canon hg20 camera which captures using AVCHD I am a little confused about what you can capture in HD and what you can burn after editing..........for instance, can I capture in one of the five HD modes using different resolutions, and then burn at what I used to use "standard definition" on a dvd to use on a normal dvd player as well as burning HD dvd,s (which as I understand...I will need a blue ray burner in my computer and a blue ray player ?
HD to SD video
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Hi Yugoman
Sorry for delay. Seems we all missed this one.
The camera you have I believe records HD video to a 60B internal hard drive. It does record in 5 different HD modes but I reckon it's a waste unless you use the best quality, that's IMHO of course.
You don't capture from the hard disc, you use the supplied USB lead to just transfer the clips from the hard drive in the camera to your chosen place on you PC's hard drive or an external drive. I think the clips will be in the MTS format, that's if you transfer using Windows explorer or similar. Did your camera come with a utility called Corel Guide menu. If so that's better for transferring the clips. They will then take on the M2TS format. To use these clips to produce a standard 720 x 576 DVD just set your final burn to these properties. You don't say what version of VS you are using so must guess a bit here!
You can burn an AVCHD or Blu-Ray folder to a standard DVD to produce a HD video but you must keep the size down to below about 30 mins. You can burn this a data using any third party dvd burner, Roxio, Nero or the very good freebie BurnAware Free. You do then need an HD TV of course and a blu-ray player. You can use a PS 3 as the player.
Sorry for delay. Seems we all missed this one.
The camera you have I believe records HD video to a 60B internal hard drive. It does record in 5 different HD modes but I reckon it's a waste unless you use the best quality, that's IMHO of course.
You don't capture from the hard disc, you use the supplied USB lead to just transfer the clips from the hard drive in the camera to your chosen place on you PC's hard drive or an external drive. I think the clips will be in the MTS format, that's if you transfer using Windows explorer or similar. Did your camera come with a utility called Corel Guide menu. If so that's better for transferring the clips. They will then take on the M2TS format. To use these clips to produce a standard 720 x 576 DVD just set your final burn to these properties. You don't say what version of VS you are using so must guess a bit here!
You can burn an AVCHD or Blu-Ray folder to a standard DVD to produce a HD video but you must keep the size down to below about 30 mins. You can burn this a data using any third party dvd burner, Roxio, Nero or the very good freebie BurnAware Free. You do then need an HD TV of course and a blu-ray player. You can use a PS 3 as the player.
John Mitchell
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