Export FCP Timeline as HD 1440 x 1080i in Compressor?

I have a 2 and a Half hour timeline in FCP 7 shot and edited in 1440 x 1080i HD. I want to export it as HD 1440 x 1080i with my Chapter Markers.
Can I do this in Compressor?
I am going to make it a Blu-Ray DVD eventually.
FCP Studio 3
Power Mac Intel Xeon
10GB RAM

I have had success exporting markers from a timeline but I have not have success in them showing up on a Blu-ray via Compressor.
You can make a blu-ray from Compressor but you will have to compress the file quite a bit to fit 2.5 hours footage on a blu-ray. Due to how Compressor makes the BR you may be dissapointed by the output. I would definitely purchase a BR-R disk so that you can do lots of tests. Keep in mind that Compressor is a really basic option for getting video to BR. It is very limited in authoring options when you compare it to what you can do in DSP(HD-DVD would be the equivalent but the format is now dead).
To have the markers show-up in a export from FC you need to ensure you have done the following:
1) Make sure all othe markers are actually chapter markers vs. just a regular marker.
Command/option/m will allow you to edit the markers and change the names
2) When you export your QT set the markers pull-down(lower left) to DSP markers. These markers will show-up in QT on the exported file so that you can jump to another marker from the pull-down in the QT window.

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Thank you, I understand now it is the aspect ratio issue.
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I'd like to work with the tools and export options available within FCP7 (FCS3) and quicktime, as opposed to having to purchase some AVI transcoder
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Once again-
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in the corporate world wee have to contend with clients who are all windows based and prevented from installing anything on their systems.
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Yes, all the files were optimized when imported.
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When I do a title in Motion, over some footage for example, and I roundtrip back to FCP, everything looks nice in the timeline.
When I render out the movie, though, the title always ends up blocky. I've always worked around this in a couple different ways. 1) I export directly out of FCP as a quicktime (not compressed, just the full movie). The titles always look great. 2) Rather than roundtrip a .motn file, I just export from Motion as either a ProRes or Animation or whatever and import to my FCP project. Ends up looking great.
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I checked and all looks good:
The sequence has no field dominance, the motion project has no dominance and the project has no field order.
So it's completely progressive.
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The original footage in FCP is ProRes422(HQ). I have 2 graphics, one compresses great, the other not great. The difference is the Motion file format.
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Such as? Gotta link to anything as I'd really like to know. Perhaps my impression of sticking a Motion project into FCP is just faulty?

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