....exporting 720p to Widescreen 16x9 DVD

I have video that was shot in 720p format using the Panasonic HVX200. When you open the clips in Quicktime and check the information you can see that the Frame size is 960x720 (1248x702). The Frame size is at 1248x702 but once imported into FCP where the the squeeze takes place you then see its 960x720. Okay now to finalize out of my timeline, I want to go through compressor and export a high quality widescreen 16x9 file that I can play on my 42 inch widescreen plasma....
Sorry for writing like this. It's just that I been searching for existing results on my problem within the forum and have found nothing. Most posts I dont even understand what is trying to be encoded. Ok back to ...
I did an encode where I used the High Quality Widescreen preset and it burned properly. When played on a standard television it creates the black bars on top and bottom, nice. When played on the big plasma it fills the screen perfectly, nice. Now here is my problem. There are some pixelation issues in quality. Some areas not so much but overall the quality is quite bad for being born in HD.I know its being burned to SD but is there a way to encode this with optimal quality? Help, tips,sugesstions, spells to get this playing properly is greatly appreciated. Here is the specs on the video in my timeline:
DVCPRO HD 720p60 960x720

Ricardo,
know you posted this a while ago but I ran into a different issue, and this info might help:
http://www.cineform.com/products/TechNotes/HVX200Resolution/HVX200Resolution.htm
Seems like the HVX200 does not record "true" HD 1280x720, but rather compresses to 960x720. The pixels aren't square, they're anamorphic and thats why they playback at 1248x702 (quicktime makes the adjustment so they view correctly).
The solution they offer is to upres to native HD 1280x720, then output your film to DVD. This should help.

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Hey everyone, I did post this one level back as another topic, but then started reading around and figured this may be a better place to post. I apologize for the double post, won't happen again - I'm new to the user forums here and I admit that this is a bit of a desperate plea for help. I apologize in advance.
So, I've been working on a project recently that's been kind of difficult for me to test since I don't have access to the platform I'm trying to develop for. I was hoping somebody might be able to help guide me to the information I need, or let me know outright if I'm on the right track or completely out to lunch with my thinking here.
Anyway, shorthand version of what I'm trying to accomplish: I'm trying to design a 16:9 wide screen video animation. I built the animation using Flash CS3. Originally it was built for NTSC but now needs to be burnt to DVD in a PAL format. I re-sized my animation to be 1024 x 576 (square pixels) at 25 FPS and exported it from Flash as a .mov using the Animation Codec. (Exported with 16:9 PAL settings at 720x576 with a pixel aspect ratio of 1.422.) I brought the new rendered file into Adobe Encore and set up my chapters etc. All footage has been interpreted as SD PAL Widescreen 1.422 PAR.
When I view the Movies I export from flash (off my desktop) they are 1024 x 576 square pixels ... they appear distorted and aliased. After burning the videos to DVD with the footage interpreted as previously mentioned, I tried viewing them on my computer. The screen capture resolution is 720 x 404 ... which is kind of odd to me. I would expect 720 x 480 or even 720 x 576. Overall though the quality is pretty nice and doesn't look greatly distorted.
I guess what I'm trying to ask is: Is that normal? Is that right? wrong? Ultimately though, does anyone know what a Widescreen PAL DVD would look like viewed on a windows XP machine? (In Windows Media Player with a DVD Codec?)
Any guidance or help on this would be greatly appreciated. If there is any other information I can provide you with to help with understanding my plight, please let me know.
I'm a web designer backed into a corner here and really don't have a whole lot of video experience. I'm also living in Canada and don't have access to a PAL system to watch the final product on ... so I'm just trying to get my settings as accurate as I can on my end.
Thanks in advance.

>The screen capture resolution is 720 x 404 ... which is kind of odd to me.
On playback the movie is displayed with square pixels. If the DVD plays 720 pixels wide then the corresponding height will be 405 for a 16:9 movie.

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Hi
Im using CS3 with dv avi type 2 source material , 780x420 Interlaced, 29.97, 16:9 ( widescreen ). Video length is about 50 minutes.
I don't have Sorenson (can't afford now )...and am using CS3 to export to burn a DVD. My impression has been, according to posts here, that CS3 is not the best way to export ...that using frameserver and Sorenson is better...
However, I am new to this and have a lot to learn about the compression used to export for DVD...and so I tried a couple things in CS3.
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In this case the quality is set by CS3 to 4, lower field first, aspect 4:3, vbr 2 pass, with 1.5, 4 , 7 as min, target, max bitrates.
In the preset for ntsc widescreen medium quality (there is no high quality widescreen preset)...everything is the same except it is vbr 1 pass. and aspect is set to 16:9.
I exported using ntsc high quality but changed quality to 5 from 4, min bitrate to 2 instead of 1.5...aspect to 16:9 from 4:3.
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I put in my info and got the suggestion to use 8 mpps for bitrate, CBR...
Did that export....
Looks horrible !.... major horizontal lines, sawtooth patterns...
info from calculator:
------------- calculator will suggest CBR in 2 circumstances instead of VBR 2 pass ---------
Second, when there is enough space on the disc to make the average bitrate equal to or greater than the maximum bitrate. In this case, a VBR file would effectively be CBR, therefore it makes no sense to use the VBR mode (which takes longer to encode). If the calculator suggests VBR with an average bitrate value that is very close (i.e., within 10%) of the maximum bitrate value, you can greatly reduce the encoding time (with a very small loss in quality) by selecting CBR mode.
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And wanting to take advantage of EVERY OUNCE OF QUALITY I decided to force CS3 to do a VBR 2 pass export using 8,8, 8 as the min, target and max bitrates....
This would seem dumb because CBR at a setting of 8 should be the same thing....
But for some reason I decided to do this crazy thing...and it looks good ....
Although this is fine for now I am wondering....why does interlaced look so terrible ?
I also wonder what the M frames and N frames default settings of 3 and 15 is the same for all presets. My GOP is apparently I - frame = 1
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Don't know if this will ever help anyone else but forcing the VBR 2 pass with 8,8,8 worked well, took about 45min to export 50 minutes of the video..and gave me the calculator's predicted file size to put on the DVD ( roughly 3.3 gig )...
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Rod

Hi you guys...thanks !!! for help...and advice
With regard to the m frames and n frames ( which I still don't get ....am totally confused )...I finally opened up the book I bought on mpeg compression...and started looking at the pictures....
I am like very into pictures and illustrations ..... and if it wasn't for the "classics" series of comics ( re: "The Fall Of The Roman Empire" etc)..I would never have graduated from 5th Grade.
Soooo, at least I can start getting into this book a little and see if it starts making sense...
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However, it looks WAY better than the progressive burn...ESPECIALLY ON FAST PANS .....
Harm, I guess what you said about losing the one field , when camera pans fast, makes it more blurry on progressive conversion.... cause I see a pretty big difference in that ....
NOW...( Bill, your comment re: preview quality )...it seems to me that maybe when I was doing the original export and previewing, and seeing the horrible sawtoothing and horizontal lines, etc....that maybe if I had gone ahead and burned the DVD it would have been OK.....
So I'm sorta back where I started. Now I have to start from the beginning....over again....export from CS3 as mpeg DVD, DO NOT LOOK AT PREVIEW ( PUT HANDS OVER EYES )....and burn the DVD and see what happens....
Geez.... there's so much to learn about all this...every " step" in the process.... It's kinda fascinating in a way...you know? Very cool....to think you can actually do what guys were doing back in the 1930's....and get it onto a DVD successfully.... boggles the mind !
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=======
Warning: DBR3LOADEXEC_NT_MSS SetCmdDefaultForDatDirExt 2 722
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Warning: DBR3LOADEXEC_NT_MSS SetCmdDefaultForDatDirExt 2 722
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=======
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No value for Key: EXPORT1_LOCATION
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Error: Main {} 2 579
Installation aborted.
=========
Are there anyone who can help me,
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Warning: DBR3LOADEXEC_NT_MSS SetCmdDefaultForDatDirExt 2 722
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