HD video to SD Studio Pro project for burning

I'm completing a documentary that was all shot in HD. I want to export it from FCP and get it into DVD Studio Pro while preserving the highest image quality possible. I need to make the Studio Pro project in SD so that the film can be played in most dvd players. I've tried several methods:
Exporting from FCP as a QT movie with current settings, then exporting from QT with no compression. This has left me with huge video files that won't fit on a DVD. So, now I've imported the QT movie files into Compressor and used Apple Pro Res 422 for Interlaced Material to compress the files. After that step, I've put a sample of the film (about 4 mins worth) into Studio Pro with a bit rate of 7.4 and max bit rate of 8.7. The quality still looks pretty bad when played back on an HD TV. I know that it won't look completely perfect, but I'd like to still maintain the highest quality possible. If anyone can walk me through this, I would be SO appreciative!
Thank you in advance!
Kaitlyn

girlshootscamera wrote:
My sequence settings are HDV 1080i60. Should I re-export based on the first
tutorial you posted? Or will it be fine to use the export I made with the
current settings and then go into Compressor with them?
Read the first paragraph of the first tutorial.
Ken Stone states, "HDV video does not encode well to MPEG 2."
So, yes, you should convert to ProRes 422, when you output from FCP,
following his procedure, starting in the fourth paragraph.
In the future, when you edit HDV, you might want to go ahead and convert
when you capture, because that will make editing easier, since
HDV is not a great editing codec.
My other question about that codec in Compressor is that I'm not
using Dolby audio...will that negatively effect the audio in the film?
The audio in your FCP project is probably AIF, which is the best quality.
Although it is possible to make DVDs with AIF files, it is not generally done,
because the extra bitrate required for audio means that you have
to lower the bitrate (i.e. quality) of the video. Dolby audio
set at 192kps, sounds pretty good, so you should probably go ahead
and encode your audio using the Compressor preset.
Note that the DVD preset in Compressor includes two settings–video
and audio–and will produce two files, which you have to connect
when you author your DVD.
random question: will crushing the near-blacks affect skin tone?
It shouldn't if you're doing it right. You should really only do it
on shadows and really dark areas. Now if you have someone in a shot
who has really dark skin and they're not lit well, parts of their
skin might be so dark that all you get is noise in the MEG-2.
In that case, you have to decide, should they just disappear
into the shadows until they walk into better lighting?
Or do you need to see them even if it means a noisy image?
The key to crushing the blacks is how you set the the Limit Effect
controls. (Click the little triangle to the left to reveal them.)
There are numerous tutorials online. The basic idea is to pull
the blacks all the way down, check the Luma checkbox and pull its
controls quite far to the left, and play with Softening to make
the edges look more natural.

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