Re: SD DVD on HD TV

The Canon XH-A1 is a good camera. The way I do HD is Film, Edit, and Produce in HD then when you go into Encore create an regular DVD project when you bring in your video it will recognize that it is a 16:9 video and will make the video play at a 16:9 aspect ratio on a TV Black bars will be on top and bottom of video when played on a normal SD TV but when played on an HDTV that has widescreen it will play in Full Frame. You can also ReImport the video into premire at a SD 4:3 Project and trim the Right and Left sides of the video to create a Full Screen Look. But overall picture quality will be greatly enhanced. You can play around with the idea like I did by going to RED's website download there RED Reel and use that to test out HD onto SD DVD, The Reel is a 2.35:1 Cine Ratio so even on a 16:9 Set you still have the black bars on top and bottom but the picture is OMG.

Hope this helps rather than confuses.

Jim
JimmyJames Productions LLC