For those of you using Premiere or Sony Vegas, we've just uploaded a new tutorial on frameserving to Nero Recode, which allows you to deliver HD on DVD now. Playable on some settop players, or in Nero's Showtime player. Immensely superior to WMV.
http://www.sundancemediagroup.com/articles/frameserve.htm

Very well done DSE.

DSE: Mark mentions "the enormous amount of processing power it takes to smoothly playback MPEG-4 video." How much processing power are we talking about for encodes at 1080i and 720p resolution? Can current computer-based media players recognize and play H.264 video? How about the Avel Linkplayer2?

It should not be a great surprise that IOData is expected to release a version of the Linkplayer that accomodates this format. But until it is available, the superior codec is the one that shows my videos on my HDTV. I can afford a new DVD player if it turns out to be that much better than WM9. But I doubt the difference will be all that great.

DSE, a lot of the mpeg-4 capable DVD set-tops only can handle "Simple profile" up to 640x480, ie. mpeg4 CD-R's...

can you elaborate as to which set-top NOW can play a DVD-R/+R with 9.8mbs HDTV resolution mpeg4???

thanks!

Capture 1080i with Aspect HD
480i imported into After Effects and resized to 1440:1080, rendered and used in the 1080i project.

Exported using Cinema Craft Mpeg 16:9, authored in Encore DVD

Will the method in this thread produce a better output to HDTV?