Exporting Suggestion for DSLR footage

Hi I recently shot a bunch of footage for a project with a Canon 60D and to edit in FCP 6 I converted the footage to ProRes 422 Progressive. I docked down the FPS to 30. I orginially filmed it at 720p with 60FPS. Now my question is to maintain the quality, what file type should I export my final cut of the project? I saw they had HDTV 720p 30 FPS, should I use this? I am planing to just burn it onto a DVD for showing and screening.
Any suggestions are greatly appreciated.

A DVD Video disc is always standard def, 720x480 (even when it is 16:9)
Export your video to QuickTime using Current Settings -same as your Timeline and self contained.
In Compressor, use one of the time based DVD presets that your video best fits into.
Bring the resulting files into DVD Studio Pro and make your disc.

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as NLEdit said, there will be loads of answers to this.
IMO i'd avoid drobo like the plague. G tech drives have served me incredibly well working on a huge variety of broadcast projects (just over the water from you in Bristol), I've had no probs with FW800 when using DVCproHD, pro res is ok, sometimes a little slow with multiple layers and of course it eats up storage space. so I'd go for 2 4tb drives, keep the backup one in a different location.
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mac os extended (not journalled)
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partition 1 - make this small (1gig) and call it "drive a - do not use"
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Ignore getting a mac mini for rendering, won't help at all in FCP. instead I would make every attempt you can at buying a mac pro rather than an imac. much more expansion/speed possibilities and a more robust solution.
best of luck
Andy

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Here is Vinay's message:
Hi Brian,
We have noticed this issue recently on 10.10.2 and we are trying to find the possible cause and as per my information this issue might arise due to licensing issues. So, might be in the OS upgrade process the licensing files are corrupted but right now I cannot comment on it. Please follow the step of Clean un-installation of Adobe products and the re-install them again.
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~ Files / Folders ~ Click on Go menu in finder and select Go to Folders option to type these location and click go to Navigate
/tmp
/Applications/Adobe*
/Applications/.AdobePatchFiles (hidden, use Go > Go to Folder command)
/Applications/Utilities/Adobe*
/[startup disk]/Library/Application Support/Adobe*
/[startup disk]/Library/Preferences/com.adobe*
/Users/[user]/Library/Application Support/Adobe*
/Users/[user]/Library/Caches/Adobe*
/Users/[user]/Library/Caches/com.adobe*
/Users/[user]/Library/Preferences/Adobe*
/Users/[user]/Library/Preferences/com.adobe*
Once the locations are cleaned. Please re-install Premier Pro CC 2014 only to check if it works fine. Once checked you can install all the applications again.
Please PM me once it is resolved.
//Vinay

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