Is there a way I can get hour long HD1 footage onto one single side DVD?

[Carl Arce]

I've already done it with Aspect HD and Premeire pro 1.0, but it is still SD when Encore writes it.

I was just wondering if I could do it in it's native HD format?

[Rob Lohman]

That depends on the DVD format. If you want a DVD-Video disc
that you can pop into any settop DVD player, than no. DVD-Video
does not support HD. There are two new formats coming though,
HD-DVD and blu-ray. But both are at least a year away. The only
ways to distribute HD footage to somebody else are:

1. DVHS: this new tape format is HD, however not many people have a player in their home (yet)

2. some data disc with a HD codec on it for playback on a PC

Now the last one can be done with a DVD *DATA* disc (think
DVD ROM) and you could store HD MPEG2 (basically what is
coming of the camera) or Windows Media HD.