Re: HD to SD Workflow recommendations

David, you've raised some interesting points here. First of all your workflow, HD to SD. You refer to a number of downscale options with the comment that you haven't found a good software conversion. Well, I use BitVice for all my DVD encoding and find that it does a brilliant downscale and it's not done with hardware. Very likely of course a good piece of kit from AJA would convert even better, I haven't tried.

As to distribution of productions that we shoot in HD, I agree, it's frustrating that people don't want them on BD. This is crazy because even if they play DVD's generally these are going to look better with the modern 'upscaling' BD players. So they might as well get BD players. You predict the death of DVD's, well they all say this but then it has to be files on drives for distribution, what a pain that will be.

Michael Slowe