Best Compression for 1440 x 1080 HDV

I have a short film, around 13 minutes long, which I've recently completed. It was filmed in 1440 x 1080 24fps in HDV. What compressed video format would produce the highest quality "lossless" compression of the film? I'm planning on using the video file as my highest quality master copy –besides the FCP file itself. Thanks.
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It all depends on many things, including the running time. (Which camera did you use, I am assuming it is 24P?) Also I am guessing you want to put this on DVD?
Generally you will need to calculate the rates you can encode to make the video fit
[Rate Calculations|http://dvdstepbystep.com/faqs_7.php]
Keeping mind issues of how rates can affect the DVD
[How Rates Affect Playback|http://dvdstepbystep.com/faqs_7.php]
Not sure if you are targeting SD (PAL or NTSC) but the video needs to be encoded to m2v which is a compressed Codec (HDV is also).
Compressor (the newest version) and bitVice both do good jobs in creating m2vs off of HDV. In Compressor the frame controls willl help produce better results though it can take longer to encode.
Here is a good thread discussing 24FPS and what is happening
[24P Issues |http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=3943775&#3943775]
I would probably export the movie as self-contained to start (not sure if there are alot of color corrections etc that need to be conformed and that can take time) and run that through the encoders, tweaking the settings.
[HD to SD Threads |http://discussions.apple.com/search.jspa?threadID=&q=HD+SD&objID=f952&dateRang e=last90days&userID=&numResults=15&rankBy=10001]

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