I have a canon XHA1 video camera and liquid 7.2. Anyways I shot video in 1080 and when I tried to upload it to the program it would only allow dv,mpeg,avi. I should have had a HGDV format also right? Also what is better picture qulity 1080-60 1080-30 or 1080-24?
Re: Input HDDV by Lew Schatzer on May 2, 2008 at 12:02:56 am
It should work fine. Make sure the camera is turned on and outputing from firewire in HDV mode before starting Liquid. The logging tool should recognize the HDV format automatically and the capture format should be mpeg and not AVI. You may have to go into the cameras menu and turn off auto dectect of format and lock it into HDV. Some cameras require this.
All the formats of that camera are supported by Liquid.
O.k. then if I change the camera imput in the menue and I upload the video as HDDV 1080 can I after editing the video burn it as a stanard DVD or do I have to burn it as 1080? Thanks.
Re: Input HDDV by Lew Schatzer on May 2, 2008 at 11:14:51 pm
Liquid does not support burning directly to a BluRay disc. You would need a third party app for that. If you work in HDV and burn a DVD from that 1080i timeline, you will end up with a standard SD 16:9 DVD. Liquid will downconvert automatically for you. You will also find that DVD's created from HDV timeline generally look much better than DVD's created from SD material on an SD timeline. Give it a shot.
So I understand this. If I want to burn a blue ray dvd I would have to edit the video in 1080i video in Liquid then save it to a file then use a 3rd party software to burn it to a dvd? Is Avid going to have a update patch for liquid? One last question, if I save the hi def video as 1080i to a file on my drive which software would I used to burn a hi def dvd? I wish I would have look closer at the editing software cause adobe supports blue ray.
Re: Input HDDV by Lew Schatzer on May 3, 2008 at 7:37:25 pm
Liquid as it currently stands is not going to be updated any further. It is being replaced in about a year with a new product based on Liquid but with improved workflow and support for new formats such as BluRay. At this time, the only solution to create BluRay discs is to use a third party authoring application.
