Thomas - I appreciate all your comments.  I sent you an email with the reply I sent  to the requestor.  There is no sense in bothering the board with it - but I thought you might find it interesting as well as having some comments. Great points  - and your comments seem so right on.  Thanks again.    

Great info,  I have done that before (gone to stations - and you are exactly right - it's all over the board (and that was for SD - not HD).  In this case, client has no station in mind - so that option is not there - that's why everyone's comments have been helpful in giving me knowledge about all this in an HD world.

LewS:   .....and it is due for release in first quarter of next year. Now that's the thing that struct me - seems like that anticiopated date keeps getting pushed back - and I guess I would be remiss if I didn't say that really disappoints me.  Just seems so far away - and I was hoping for it sooner.  

you did say ''minimum'' sverkalo. But the point I am interested in goes back to ''broadcast quality'' - and I understand what smetmid is saying about the standard not being defined - and I really appreciate the information Thomas is providing. I am swimming in these waters that I feel somewhat comfortable in, yet aware that my knowledge is ...

Sylvain P:.... about broadcast quality, 4:2:2 color spec is usually referred as broadcast. It has better color fidelity than 4:1:1 and 4:2:0 and is better for keying. And 3 CCD chips or 3 CMOS are also required. But with continuing improvements in recording technologies, it is now more ambiguous. Read this.It will depends on the station ...

I was asked by someone if I could produce Broadcast qualuty B-roll in HD. I was not quite sure how to answer that,   I have provided SD b-roll footage in avi forrmat on DVD and never heard back that it was not broadcast quality. However, I am not sure if a M2V file (CCIR 601 - not sure if the 75% has to be checked) is considered ''Broadcast ...

DVD Architect worked great with the mp2 files - menus all working.  Things I liked about Architect was a pretty straight forward DVD authoring - but not as nice as on-the-timeline-authoring with Liquid - DVDA had playlists and a lot other features I didn't get into - but worst thing was it had to re-render - I am not sure why - and that took ...

Gee - and I thought things were going so well - except for this menu thing.   I had 1.5 hrs of HDV/SD on the HDV vtimeline and wrote it out  (fused) to a mp2 file - took 10 hours - does that seem excessive ? I look at this now as an opportunity to use Encore CS3 or DVD Architect 5 - just to see how they work.  Now that I have ...

I am not getting controls on not only the 4x3 ntsc output, I am not getting controls when I play the DVD on the computer or a HD tv.  The menu controls work fine in Liquid simulation mode - but just nothing on an HD tv or computer - I can see the buttons - but can't move amoungst them on the hd tv (nothing highlights and nothing starts ...

Sylvain P:And the issues with 16:9 menus displaying incorrectly with some DVD settings as been fixed in Liquid 7.Maybe with what you're doing, AL7.21 will gives you better results. I am coming to that conclusion - although right now the output is really working well - now that I understand it - the HD timeline with mixed HDV and DV  ...