Best possible quality

every sunday, we do announcements for our church using final cut. i've got a master timeline that we put all the different announcements on. this timeline has sequences that range from all graphics to a mix of video and graphics.
the master timeline settings (as well as all the others) are for dv ntsc, i'm wondering if theres a better setting that i can change the master timeline to to really make the graphics pop, like 8-bit uncompressed or whatever. or is there no point and the difference in quality and increased render times be not worth doing?

I play uncompressed 8-bit sequences out through FireWire. I take the standard DV setup and change the codec to "uncompressed 8-bit".
But what I'm getting at the monitor is still DV quality. So in your case, if your only purpose is to play out this way on current equipment, there's no advantage.
If you had a capture card from AJA or Black Magic (or the Matrox MXO) you could be creating and outputting uncompressed video.

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I completed a short family movie (15 min) in PAL format with Final Cut Express HD. How do I get it from there onto a DVD in PAL format with the BEST POSSIBLE QUALITY?
Thank you in advance for your help,
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I own the panasonic hdc-sd9 (avchd). I´ve read millions of words regarding the quality, problems, exports, interlace and so on and (although I understand the details very well) after all I´ve been confused indeed.
What I really want to know (a nobody could answer in a clear and simple way) is the following:
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airbusjoerg wrote:
.. What would you suggest ..
buy a different camcorder... NO! Kiddin'!!
.. flashmem devices as yours are only supported by iM08..
and AVCHD is of no use for iMHD6 too..
we noticed on araise of iM08 some weird effects on export of 'video' from within iM08 Projects (me old dv user, so forgive my ignorance making my test with that old Standard-standard): http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=1090633
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that 'cheap' deinterlacer was meant for the QT-Deinterlacer feature: you can double any odd line to create 'progressive'; or, on professional equip, a DI would 'blend' the odd and even lines into two 'inbetween' lines..
Don't hesitate to perform your own tests, free tool JES Deinterlacer http://www.xs4all.nl/~jeschot/home.html - it uses that 'blending' techniqué.. does NOT rely on the Quicktime engine..
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80s=best_music wrote:
Video formats such as avi and wmv.
I have one video that I can play on my notebook using QuickTime and iTunes 9.1.0.79; however, AppleTV can not play it because it was encoded at 192 Kbps with resolution higher than 720x432 pixels. The video is in MPEG-4 (.mp4). I'll have to check out handbrake and see if it will re-encode it (lower quality) for AppleTV.
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