FCE4 / HDV / Apple TV / DVD

Hi, bonjour,
I'm new to apple and FCE4. I used to work with Adobe Premiere but since it takes a whole lot of work to get HDV footage in an Apple TV format, I switched to imac/FCE.
Can anyone tell me what the best settings are to put HDV footage to DVD AND to Apple TV using FCE4
Kind Regards,
Message was edited by: Ludovic Claeys

Assuming you're using iDVD to make the DVD you use two separate export functions. You export to QuickTime Movie and take that to iDVD. You export to QuickTime Conversion and use the Apple TV preset for the other. You should probably read up on using the application.

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