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Kevin M.

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Nov 24, 2014 22:41

Hello Everyone:

After working extremely hard for 70 hours to create my very first video montage (14-minutes long), I really need the other member's prompt guidance!!!

I have hired a professional Audio-Visual company to provide (2) 60" monitors on which my "masterpiece" will be shown to the 75 guests at my wife's birthday party...IN ONLY 4 DAYS!

I need to understand the following...I went through great pains over many hours to include mostly high-resolution images and video clips in this video. My computer/IT guy is advising me that no matter how high a setting I produce/render the video, as soon as I burn it to a DVD...the resolution will immediately get bumped down to the highest resolution for a DVD, which he said is only 720 x 480.

I need to know if that is true, and further, what settings I should select when I produce the video...and in what format or medium I should deliver it to the Audio-Visual company for playback at the party.

Note: I have a DVD burner in my PC, but I do not own a Blu-Ray burner. Should I buy one for this purpose?...and then insist that the video guy provide a Blu-Ray player at the party? My computer/IT guy also said it would be a higher quality if I delivered the final video on a flash drive and told the video guy to play it off of that.

I am confused and, although not yet panicking, I am very very close to it! I have an appointment for 11:00 AM tomorrow (Tuesday, 11/25) to test my video on the monitors at the video company's office/showroom.

Any advise would be GREATLY APPRECIATED.

Thank you,
Kevin

PepsiMan

Senior Contributor Location: Clarksville, TN Joined: Dec 29, 2010 01:20 Messages: 1054 Offline

Nov 25, 2014 00:33

I have hired a professional Audio-Visual company to provide (2) 60" monitors on which my "masterpiece" will be shown to the 75 guests at my wife's birthday party...IN ONLY 4 DAYS!

resolution of the monitor is 1080 FHD???

I need to understand the following...I went through great pains over many hours to include mostly high-resolution images and video clips in this video. My computer/IT guy is advising me that no matter how high a setting I produce/render the video, as soon as I burn it to a DVD...the resolution will immediately get bumped down to the highest resolution for a DVD, which he said is only 720 x 480.

yes.

Note: I have a DVD burner in my PC, but I do not own a Blu-Ray burner. Should I buy one for this purpose?...and then insist that the video guy provide a Blu-Ray player at the party? My computer/IT guy also said it would be a higher quality if I delivered the final video on a flash drive and told the video guy to play it off of that.

your option, your decision. last ditch...

it would be a higher quality if I delivered the final video on a flash drive

you have the answer to your anxiety right there.
make sure monitor is like Samsung Smart TV with USB that can play the 1080 30p FHD video format.

hope that helps.
it'll be alright.
don't panic!
breath, breath...

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Nov 25, 2014 00:56

Your other option is to have a usb stck or portable hard drive etc so you can play it from a file directly not from a disc that way you can produce a high bitrate video file and play that file on the night forget the dvd option hope the night is a blast mate

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CubbyHouseFilms

Senior Contributor Location: Melbourne, Australia Joined: Jul 14, 2009 04:23 Messages: 2208 Offline

Nov 25, 2014 01:46

Hi

If, the TVs have a USB drive use the following method:

Produce your project using one of the high definition profiles e.g. AVC 1920x1080 24 mbps and transfer this file to a USB memory stick.

Insert this stick into the USB hub of the TV and there you have Full HD with no loss of quality. Happing editing

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ynotfish

Senior Contributor Location: N.S.W. Australia Joined: May 08, 2009 02:06 Messages: 9977 Offline

Nov 25, 2014 01:49

Forget the DVD idea, unless there's just no other possibility. Your tech guy is absolutely correct.

I agree with the suggestions (including yours) of copying the final 1080p video file to USB stick for (a) playback at the function & (b) distribution to guests.

It's more expensive, but the results are massively better.

Cheers - Tony

i.e. what Neil and everyone else has said!

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Kevin M.

Newbie Location: Oceanside, Long Island, NY Joined: Oct 03, 2014 11:06 Messages: 40 Offline

Nov 25, 2014 02:22

WOW...OH WOW!!! Thank you so much to each of you for taking the time to reach out to help guide me. Although we have never met, and probably never will, I feel like we are all one big family of PD users. That is really a wonderful thing! OK...ready... GROUP HUG! Well, at least "Thank you all so very much!"

This type of digital video editing is all new to me, and I have learned so much in the 4 short weeks that I have been using this program. Speaking about a sharp learning curve...this evening I read for the first time about turning on the "TV Safe Area, which I had not done to date. When I turned on that feature, I quickly realized that I had to review each of the 300 images (there are a lot of fast-paced sequences that follow the beat of the music) in my video. I spent 2 hours adjusting the on-screen position of most of those images!

Once again THANK YOU ALL!

Regards,
Kevin

SoNic67

Senior Contributor Joined: Sep 27, 2014 14:14 Messages: 1308 Offline

Nov 25, 2014 06:35

In my opinion TV Safe Area is not really needed for any modern-day TV.
It was mandatory for Standard Definition (DVD's) reproduced on a cathode-ray TV (tube TV).

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