[MacDV] HD where?

[Steve Robertson]

I think you are confused about what I was asking <g>

The "Madagascar" trailer – compressed with the DIVX HD codec – is only 
55 MB and has a playing time of two minutes. So a CD-R could hold about 
20 minutes of video with the same DIVX HD format. Granted, this is not 
the same as the broadcast HDTV standard, but it sure does play at a 
much higher resolution on a computer screen than the best NTSC DV 
currently available using QuickTime codecs. I'm guessing that the DIVX 
HD probably won't play from the CD drive. Everyone would probably have 
to copy the DIVX HD movie onto their hard drive.

I'm asking whether the new version of QuickTime (v. 7?) will include a 
new codec (I'm thinking specifically of the one getting all the 
publicity. I think it's called H.264) capable of taking HDV footage 
(from the new Sony camcorder, for example – edited with the new version 
of Final Cut Express) and creating a QuickTime movie equivalent to the 
these DIVX HD movie trailers.

Steve R.

On Thursday, April 7, 2005, at 12:48  PM, Ronald Woodland wrote:

> Do you mean distribution on DVD?  CD-R only has a capacity of only 
> 650-700 MBytes.  A CD-R might hold maybe 3-5 minutes of HD video, 
> depending on compression.  I think you are confused about what HDV or 
> HDTV actually means...
>

>> On Apr 7, 2005, at 7:08 AM, Steve Robertson wrote:
>>
>> Thanks for providing that link. Just thought I would add that you can 
>> go back to the DIVX main page and download a free DIVX player for Mac 
>> OSX. It appears to be a QuickTime plug-in, because when you 
>> double-click on the Madagascar trailer, a huge QuickTime Player 
>> window opens and plays beautiful HD animation.
>>
>> Does anyone know whether the new version of QuickTime will be able to 
>> produce similar HD QuickTime movies from HDV raw footage? This would 
>> be very impressive if it could be used to create HD QuickTime for 
>> distribution on CD-R.
>
> Steve R.
>
> On Wednesday, April 6, 2005, at 07:01  PM, Mark M.Florida wrote:
>
>> Actually, the DivX website has an HD demo for the DivX codec.  Sure, 
>> it's compressed, but the DivX codec is really good, and the clips 
>> look AWESOME!  I downloaded the Madagascar trailer -- I think I had 
>> to use VLC to play it, though -- still looks good.
>>
>> http://www.divx.com/hd/
>
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