DVCPRO HD edit to DVD SD

Does anyone know the best settings to produce an SD DVD from a DVCRO HD 16:9 sequence in FCP using Compressor? This is a 45 min. program and I'm trying to get the highest quality conversion possible. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

"SDI and HD SDI are cable connections types, like RCA and BNC. So this really doesn't mean anything...unless you are connecting to a DVD Recorder that has those connection types."
What I would ultimately do with the project is take the files to a friend who has a Mac Pro and a box that outputs SDI to dub to broadcast DigiBeta, and it outputs HD-SDI to dub to an HD machine. It'll never go back to a DVCPRO HD tape.
The reason I had asked the question is that I read somewhere that it's much more processor intensive to edit in a format such as DVCPRO or HDV, and it's much faster to convert everything to ProRes 422, for example. And that you also have more flexibility with its "uncompressed HD quality".
That's not true, I guess?
Also, I am considering buying an iMac for this. Can the firewire bus handle capturing DVCPRO HD from that camera and writing to a firewire drive? Or is it better to capture to the internal drive and then copy the files over to the firewire drive later?
Thanks for your help.

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I just had a huge struggle with this, too. I'm far from an expert, but I will share what I've learned.
Apparently, you can't get the files off the DVD to edit in iMovie. You need additional software. Two options are Popcorn and Toast. Neither are cheap, though. Popcorn is about $50 and Toast is about $100. Be sure to look on Amazon at the reviews. Popcorn didn't get very good reviews. Though, reading them, I figured the problems people had may not have any connection with what I wanted to do. Anyway, I didn't want to pay $50 to be able to edit my DVDs.
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If I understand it correctly, your time-line is 2:45 (hh:mm) long and takes around 17 hours to export. Correct?
That is pretty good for a Q9450 with 8 GB RAM. Those systems are on average around 15 - 20 times slower than a fast system with MPEG2-DVD export, so it would take a fast system around 1 hour. Now that looks like a perfectly acceptable figure. You have to keep in mind that with hardware MPE you can only compare that with CS4 export times with MRQ (Maximum Render Quality) turned on, and my guess is that you are comparing it to CS4 times WITHOUT MRQ.
Have a look at the PPBM5 Benchmark and notice where the Q9450 systems are. They are all pretty close to the bottom of the list.
Seeing those results, one can argue your statement.
so it's not a particularly slow machine.
Of course much depends on your particular time-line, but if I take my benchmark results (with a lowly i7-920) versus another Q9450 system, I guess that my export times with your time-line would be around 1:06.
Maybe not the reaction you were looking for, but I can't change statistical results.
@ Colin: The OP never said he has MRQ enabled. Where do you get that from? He said he had hardware MPE enabled. And with his timeline, setting MRQ on would not influence his export times, since there is nothing in his single track time-line to profit from MRQ and it is all handled by the MPE engine. At least in this case.

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I have a DVD recorder connected to my TV set. Is it possible to load these recorded DVDs into iMovie, remove all the unwanted content (unwanted previous and following parts of TV programs and of course commercials) and then putting the cleaned part back to the DVD-RW?
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Leslie:
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