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So quick question and I just wanted to see if anyone has found a great solution for this.
We have HD Video (1440 x 1080) interlaced. (Looks amazing in Final Cut Pro. Did the roundtrip from color back to Final Cut Pro. Exported to a quicktime mov file using the same settings from the time timeline. (Still looks great) compressed it using compressor using the DVD Best Quality 90 minutes default settings. (File still looks great after its done) Burn it using DVD Studio Pro. Play it back on several TV's including a HD DVD and it looks awful. Although the footage is now in SD, i feel like it shouldn't look this bad.
Any suggestions?

This may help...
http://www.kenstone.net/fcphomepage/hdv_timeline_to_sddvd.html
Usually just setting Field Dom to None in FCP (duplicate your sequence) helps immensely.

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