Apple Intermediate codec

Please help,
Hi everyone. Have litle question.
I film my film with HDV camera, but I capture it in Final Cut as Apple Intermediate codec. HDTV 720p. 1280*720 thought it is good for later to put it on film material. (is it worst quality then HDV?)
Now I need to develop it as tiff for color correction machine, because they don't work with HDTV720p 1280*720format. They need 1920*1080 format. So, I changed it in the sequence. But, then the video has 133.33% scale and not 100%. The question is: Is this fine or it will make the quality bit worst. Should I maybe first print it to tape as HDV and then put it back to computer and put it us 10bit uncompressed format?
I did it already ones, that I worked with the 133.33%. and developed as tiff. But, the color correction man sayd that the film is looking bit unsharp. Which i didn't think. For me it was looking fine. But maybe am wrong.
Did someones had ever the same problem?
Thank you!!!
Otto

As far as I'm aware I don't think the AIC looses resolution.
You would probably get a more knowledgeable answer in the FCP forum.
However, I don't think it's clear cut:
This article talks about why editing native HDV isn't always good
And the UKFCUG emails I've had have mentioned capturing HDV, transcoding to DVCPRO-HD for the edit and then encoding back down at the outputting stage. I don't know what was wrong with editing in HDV, but it was bad enough for the guy to do a 20hour render to DVCPRO-HD
Out of interest what was the article you read?

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