HD to dvd?  How do I do it?

Now I have been reading endlessly. Very confused. I shot a short on the Varicam, 720P. Final edit was 37min. I compressed it and still the only format I have been successful getting it to transfer to is my Ipod. Now I built the DVD in DVDSP. It wont let me burn. WHY?

Sounds like you are trying to bring an HD encoded MPEG into an SD project.
- I digitized the footage in hd.
First, open a new project and make sure it is SD (not HD)
- my dvdsp settings all seem to point to sd except for the actual file. Is this something I need to recompress from FCP
Press F3 Key so we are looking at the same thing, then go to outline view, highlight the disk icon at the top then use inspector to check to make it SD. If it is HD, it will not be able to convert back to SD, so go into prefs and make sure default for a new project is SD (let me know if you need some screen shots or anything for this part.)
-I had already reconstructed the dvd menue using the sd settings. No change. preferences and the inspector to sd I always tried to maintain the 16:9 frame.
(Quick aside was the SD 16:9?)
Now take the SD version of the footage and bring it into Compressor and use one of the settings for DVD (not HD-DVD) to convert it to an SD format MPEG (also make sure you A.Pack/Dolby the audio, it is usually a default)
-SO you want me to recompress or do you mean compress again from FCP??
If you just have the HD version (16:9?) you can also use Compressor to convert that to an SD Mpeg-2 to use.
-none of my compressing settings point to SD anything. its usually either hd dvd or uncompressed 10 bit HDV or dvcpro etc.
Take a look here for some info on encoding HD to SD also
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=2744312&#2744312
Let me know if you need some screen shots or something to get you rolling further
-maybe some screenshots would help. I'm a visual leaner, i was in the speacial class.
This has some of the stuff in general, scroll past the FInal Cut part if you like and it will show some of the Compressor workflow and also an overview of the workspace of how I was describing it
http://www.dvdstepbystep.com/fasttrackover.php
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