Comments on: Creating higher-quality HD video with iMovie '09

By: David

David — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 16:10:30 +0000

Sorry about that, it’s fixed now.

By: lassie76

lassie76 — Mon, 25 Jan 2010 12:09:24 +0000

Hei

This manual was great, thanks a lot…

Can you please put out the last picture again (about sound tab.), This will be very usefull.

Thanks!!!

By: Greg K from Michigan

Greg K from Michigan — Fri, 15 Jan 2010 06:45:25 +0000

I’ve found WD TV player to be easy to use, and only use it for standard DVD quality video. I have a huge library of dvds that are standard rips from laserdisks. I converted them to a format for MP4 or M4v, by changing the extension to M4v the MP4 rips will often work in WD TV. The problem I’ve found and I’ve been using handbrake for that process is some videos play fine on the mac for a mac kiosk but my mom has better luck using the controller and WD TV player. Unfortunately the movies don’t all play as well on the WD player as they do without problems on the mac. I think it’s because there’s a real bottleneck in how high a frame rate or how high a quality of video you can create. I’m using pretty conservative settings and this is for standard dvd not Blue Ray or HD quality rips. And the WD player doesn’t handle all of my standard quality rips. I get some stuttering that is strange and looks like interlaced odd field errors or something, giving a stuttering look that is strange and almost looks to be related to field errors in the render. It happens for 20 to 30% of my ripped videos for the WD kiosk setup. I’m not sure why this happens, but I think it’s a hardware bottleneck with the WD player. That is likely what you are running into with HD content. The WD player is just to cheap to be able to handle the high frame rates for some renders that work perfectly well on the Mac.

By: Andy Stahly

Andy Stahly — Sun, 10 Jan 2010 19:17:28 +0000

I’ve seen some posts asking how to burn, etc. Here is a basic workflow that I just figured out (with a cost of $89) and it works *perfectly*. My needs are very basic as follows:

Goal: Either directly burn BD from my Canon HF10 to disc or back up to my Mac first then burn later..viewing of course everything in original quality via my Blue Ray player (1080i/60i)

Steps: Buy Shedworx Flamingo and Revolver ( you dont need Flamingo but it helps)..If your footage is still on the cam, use Revolver to find it (MTS streams), import them, put a DVD in your drive, press burn and you are done. The resulting disc plays automatically on my BD player in *original quality*..Fantastic! One very slight nuisance: I get a short 1 sec studder in between each scene (ideally I want all the clips ‘joined’ but I haven’t figured out how to do that without losing quality). If your footage is already on your HD, use flamingo to find it (its a great little program to organize your footage into clips, dates, etc) and press “send to Revolver”, follow steps above and you are once again done.

Lastly, if you do want/need to edit your footage David’s process works for me too using Shedworx programs but I can’t seem to get the same original quality as with the unedited versions. I’m not technical, but maybe I’ll figure it out and post if so. Thanks!

By: Andy Stahly

Andy Stahly — Sun, 10 Jan 2010 14:23:57 +0000

why wont this work with iMovie ‘08. I just used it and it worked? I also skipped the Quicktime step since QT 7 doesn’t exist anymore on Snow Leopard so I exported using the same settings right out of JES.. I burned to Toast and played on my BD player no problem (thanks!)