Panasonic Lumix DMC-ZS7 recording modes

[RL]

We are going on vacation and want to use the camera for recording videos to the 64 GB, and 32 GB memory SD cards.

The camera makes great HD video, but I need to be able to burn DVD's and can not do that with HD.

So my question is what is the best camera video resolution that will allow me to burn DVD's for playback on all players.

The camera supports:

Motion picture JPEG:

WVGA 848x480 30 fps 16:9
VGA 640x480 30 fps 4:3
QVGA 320x240 30 fps 4:3

These are the SD video choices.

What will work for standard DVD burning without using conversion?

What will look best?

Thanks

[hech54]

You are still going to have to convert whatever the camera gives you to MPEG2, then author the MPEG2 clips to DVD. I use 640x480 with my little Canon portable and occasionally convert to DVD....looks pretty damn good on a normal sized TV.

[Optical]

Like Hech said, no matter what you will need to convert to MPEG2, so I would record as AVC-HD. The reasoning behind that is so you get the best quality and then can downconvert to DVD resolution. Who knows, down the line you may want to burn to a Blu-ray.