Re: HDV compatible with Blu-Ray and HD-DVD?

Hi there. HDV uses a nearly identical form of MPEG2 compression as HD-DVD. If capture the footage via firewire into Final Cut in it's native HDV format add that footage to the timeline export the timeline as a .mov file with the same presets as the timeline (HDV). Or convert your finalized edit to HDV. Then open DVD Studio Pro change the disc format to HD-DVD. Add the HDM .mov file asset. Very little time will be spent compressing the footage. You can then burn the info to a standard red laser DVD-R (4.7gig) and it will play on any HD-DVD player. The only caveat is storage. You can only fit 25 minutes of footage per DVD-R. If you don't have a lot of effects or layers it is a great way to go and very fast.