Erik Hagestad
January 7th, 2010, 11:07 AM
Hello,
Another newbie on the boards. I've searched around the forum for questions like this, but found nothing.
I'm currently putting together a proposal for a new travel TV documentary series, and it's been suggested that we shoot a short promotional "teaser" for the show to highlight the style and energy we'll bring to the project. For both financial and practical reasons, we've decided to shoot it on my current camcorder, a PV-GS400. (Yes, I know, this doesn't quite fit in the DVX forum, but I could find nowhere else.)
I'd like to shoot it using the GS-400's "Pro-Cinema" anamorphic widescreen mode, which looks very good. Not HD, but good widescreen in any case. My partner and I have both heard about the headaches trying to get anamorphic to burn to DVD in the proper format, especially using iDVD. I may be able to upgrade to DVD SP, but not sure about that yet.
Anyway, my question is two-fold. Has anyone had success burning anamorphic widescreen to DVD using iDVD, or does anyone have an opinion as to the impact of low-def widescreeen vs. standard 4/3? We want to make the best impact possible, but it's just not worth the many $1000's to buy new HD equipment and peripherals.
Thanks for any advice anyone might have for us. We leave on our shoot quite soon.
Another newbie on the boards. I've searched around the forum for questions like this, but found nothing.
I'm currently putting together a proposal for a new travel TV documentary series, and it's been suggested that we shoot a short promotional "teaser" for the show to highlight the style and energy we'll bring to the project. For both financial and practical reasons, we've decided to shoot it on my current camcorder, a PV-GS400. (Yes, I know, this doesn't quite fit in the DVX forum, but I could find nowhere else.)
I'd like to shoot it using the GS-400's "Pro-Cinema" anamorphic widescreen mode, which looks very good. Not HD, but good widescreen in any case. My partner and I have both heard about the headaches trying to get anamorphic to burn to DVD in the proper format, especially using iDVD. I may be able to upgrade to DVD SP, but not sure about that yet.
Anyway, my question is two-fold. Has anyone had success burning anamorphic widescreen to DVD using iDVD, or does anyone have an opinion as to the impact of low-def widescreeen vs. standard 4/3? We want to make the best impact possible, but it's just not worth the many $1000's to buy new HD equipment and peripherals.
Thanks for any advice anyone might have for us. We leave on our shoot quite soon.