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HDV and Weddings

dansen
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Oct 20, 2005, 6:52 PM

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I'm new to HD and to this forum in general. If I'm going to buy a HDV camera (which I will sometime), can i shoot weddings with it and put the footage on DVD and video? What confuses me is when people say that you can't put HDV on a DVD? You have to compress it or something? Please clear this up for me.. thanks...

Postal_Boy
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Oct 20, 2005, 8:11 PM

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DVD players can't play the HDV format. What you do is shoot in HDV, then down-convert it to SD resolution before making your DVD.

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DSE
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Oct 21, 2005, 1:25 AM

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Workflow:
1. Shoot HDV (Mpeg2)
2. Edit HDV or intermediary (advisable to use intermediary depending on your NLE)
3. Render to MPEG 2 in standard def OR render to WMV-HD, or to H.264. THe latter two options are for computer playback at this time only.
4. Burn to DVD.
5. Collect check from client and go to dinner on the profits. Wink

The answer to your question is entirely time-dependent. You can buy a cam now, learn to shoot widescreen and understand lighting, composing the frame, movement, etc, and deliver SD for DVD player or deliver HD for computer only...or buy the cam later and depending on your client, you can deliver HD in AVC for DVD player playback, or in around a year, deliver for Blu-Ray delivery. HD saturation for consumers is at least 2 years away, but cheap HD players will be available shortly after Xmas that will play AVC/.264

At the risk of being a salesperson, you might check out my book "HDV: What You NEED to Know." you can get it on Amazon for around 18.00 or so. It also comes free with Vegas Movie Studio Platinum.

Douglas Spotted Eagle
Author, producer, composer
www.vasst.com
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dansen
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Oct 21, 2005, 4:22 AM

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SOLD. Also, do you have any recommendations for reading material... I'm looking to get started learning photoshop CS and then moving onto using Photoshop for video and then........graphics packages.....any advice?

DSE
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Oct 21, 2005, 4:56 AM

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You can find some good info on Photoshop here on the VU forums, there is also this one.

Douglas Spotted Eagle
Author, producer, composer
www.vasst.com
"I enjoy music, long walks at sunset on the beach, and poking dead things with a sharp stick."

videobear
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Oct 21, 2005, 9:15 AM

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And also see the HDV Guide in the Free Library. Plus, DSE has an informative little book out, "HDV: What you NEED to Know".

Regards,
Doug Graham
Panda Productions

dansen
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Oct 21, 2005, 11:33 AM

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Any books that you can recommend for STARTING to learn Photoshop? And then progressing to Photoshop for video.

mcguyver
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Oct 27, 2005, 10:18 PM

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check out http://www.photoshopuser.com

Scott Kelby and those folks have some awesome photoshop training books and videos for both beginners and advanced users.

Todd

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