HI Def DVD

[GeorgeD123]

I hope this is the right forum to post this.
I am currently trying to put a guy's wedding video onto DVD. It was recorded in Hi Def. I'm using TMPGE 4 to create, but I think it's going convert the footage into standard DVD format. How do I create without loosing the HD quality?
Also, I see that The files themselves are large, a little over a gig each, so I'm thinking I'll need different media than a standard DVD, maybe blueray, but I'm just not sure.
Can someone please help?

Thanks,

[filmboss80]

DVD is standard definition (see https://www.videohelp.com/dvd#tech), and Blu-ray is HD. If you want to keep high def, you must encode and master it for Blu-ray.

[hech54]

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[edDV]

There is an intermediate step which is Blu-Ray (Mpeg2, VC-1, or h.264) in m2ts wrapper but burned to DVDR also called an AVCHD disc. The "AVCHD disc" is a loosely defined marketing spec supported by many recent Blu-Ray players.

Note that the video format includes most ADVC camcorder formats but also MPeg2 (including HDV) and VC-1. The main differences vs. BD/BE may include maximum bitrate and limitation on VBR max min bit rate excursions. The limits are due to maximum mechanical rotational disc velocity allowed by Blu-Ray players. DVDR discs must spin faster than BD/BE. This is not well documented so you need to test bit rate limits on the potential user's player.

[usually_quiet]

There have been a few threads on VideoHelp about authoring HD video to DVD-R in a format that Blu-Ray players can play. Here is a post with a guide on the subject: https://forum.videohelp.com/threads/288878-how-to-burn-avchd-on-dvd-r-in-high-definitio...=1#post2010163

However, a DVD-R disc won't hold much HD video, and not all Blu-Ray players accept these discs. Authoring to BD media is more likely to work, but I guess some Blu-Ray players don't like burnable BD media, or not all burnable BD formats.