Creating a QT Master for a Digital cinema Screening.

Hello,
I'm preparing a film for a Digital Cinema release. We shot it DVCPRO HD 1920x1080 25fps progressive and we are delivering a TIFF video file with the same specs. They will then be upresing that to a 1998 x 1020 DCP file.
My concern is that the titles when blown up will look crappy, as I've had his problem before with titles done in FCP. I'm going to do them in Live type but I'm unsure about the correct settings for render.
Also what should I render out for the finished film?
those are my specific questions but I'd be really interested in any other advice from people who've done this before.
Thanks very much
Fred

Fred:
Based on the resolutions that you've indicated, I think you have nothing to worry about; however, you might try to do a test conversion - between one to five minutes - prior to doing your full film.
There is a little something to worry about when you consider that your DVCProHD 1080 (i50?) master has a native frame size of 1440x1080 with a display frame size of 1920x1080.
While it may seem that you are only changing from 1920 to 1998 (an increase in the width to 104.1%), you are really changing from 1440 to 1998 (an increase of 133.3%). The change to the height from 1080 to 1020 is minimal (a decreases in the height to 94.4%).
Most any professional scaling method should yield good results; but you could see degredation in the image quality (picture and/or graphics) due to the change in width.
Going to TIFF to the final DCP (which should use JPEG2000), you should see no degredation in image quality due to changes in spatial compression and/or temporal compression as both compression methods support "lossless" compression settings.
If your DVCProHD source is interlaced, you may to deinterlace it before a change is made to the image size to avoid any combing (thin horizontal lines in the picture) in areas of high motion.
Yeah, I'd say do a short test conversion first.
-Warren

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