Video Quality - Projection???

[North8425]

Looking for general advice for recording video to be shown in an auditorium from a regular DVD player and a standard projector.

Does it make any difference in video picture quality for the above whether I set my camcorder to record in High Definition or Standard Definition? My instinct tells me it doens't, since I'm going to be burning to a regular DVD.

What do you think?

[transcendent]

If your video camera records in a format which can be losslessly transferred to a DVD, it should be fine to film in SD. If you have to encode the recording to a DVD or are planning to do any post processing filtering, you're better off with the best possible source.

[Nelson37]

An HD source, re-encoded to SD for DVD playback, will, in my experience, almost always produce a better looking DVD than starting with an SD source.

In fact, if it doesn't, then there is something with either the source or the re-encode.