Compressing HDV to MPEG2

Hi everyone,
Does someone have any experience in encoding an HDV edit to MPEG2? I've tried but it seems that the material is very interlaced (there are a lot of lines going through the encoded footage). Is there a special way that this has to be done or do I need different software for this?
Thanks in advance,
Tim Metz

Hey Tim
you are working in HDV, correct?
50i, 60i, 30F, 25F, 24p?
I have experience encoding HDV to MPEG-2, both for SD and "HD" DVD's.
unfortunately, you did not give enough details about how yourself are doing this down-conversion.
from my own personal experiences, my best encodes have come from first down-converting the FCP sequence, importing my HDV material, rendering, exporting to a self-contained QT, taking that QT file and finally importing into Compressor.
if this workflow is unaccaptable, the other and believe it or not lenghtier solution is to create a HDV sequence, export a self-contained QT, import that QT into compressor and wait.
the former is much faster and gives you control throughout the process (like this, you can see how the file looks every step of the way and if there is an error correct it in its appropriate step) , where the latter you only view the QT file once, let compressor do it's thing and you hope it looks good.
when working with HDV, regardless of the system, it is really a lenghty process. when down any type of advance conversions, double that time!
Mikey M.

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