Editing and storing HD video

I have no problem editing and making SD DVDs. I now have an HD camcorder, and will use iMovie to edit. But how do I store, and how do I get it to play on DVDs players (dont want to buy Blu-Ray yet). I gather that if I record in DivX format and have DivX compatible DVD player that should work, but what do I need to make such recordings?

Thanks

DVD players won't play HD video, which means it will need to be transcoded to SD to play back, I think iDVD will do this, if it won't, you should be able to do an export from iMovie into a SD format to then use on DVD.

If you want your video to play back as HD - you can:

* Get a bluray player of some sort (regular player, ps3, etc. - will require you to have a bluray burner and authoring software, or authoring tool that will produce AVCHD DVD discs)
* Get an HDDVD (which will require an HDDVD burner - this may be a cheaper route, but don't expect to share as HDDVD lost the HD war)
* Hook a computer up to your HD screen and play back the native HD files (ie: 720 or 1080 mp4s).

I haven't heard of any DVD players that can output HD of any sort. I'd like to be shown wrong on this.

I know many HD TVs have a media card socket, perhaps yours can play H.264 content.

The next thing to do, as Nethfel mentioned, is to hook you computer up to your HD TV. The cable is a lot cheaper than investing in Blu-Ray. It maybe $25 or less. Don't buy into the hype that the more expensive ones are better.

If you did have a Blu-Ray player, via Toast, you can create DVDs with Blu-Ray content on them. These are by design suppose to play in Blu-Ray players. Not all players understand this though. That should change as it is part of the spec, and perhaps Toast fine tunes their processing also.

The thing about using DVDs for Blu-Ray content, is you are limited to about 20 & 40 minutes for single sided and dual layer discs respectively.

I produce professional media in HD, most of which is down rez'ed to SD, unfortunately. But our studio keeps it in HD through the edit. For us to view it internally in full HD rez, we got an Apple TV. I was so impressed I got one for my home. Drag and drop it to iTunes, sync, done! The quality of Apple's compression for Apple TV is amazing, too. Just an idea.