HDV Export Resolution

Hello!
I know that with HDV camcorders, I can record full 1080 and all that, but when I import it into iMovie and put it through iDVD, will that HD quality stay the same? Won't it be converted to MPEG-2, which would downgrade the quality to SD and make the whole HD thing useless? Or will it be converted to SD, bt still look better than regular DV camcorders?
Thanks!

I haven't got much to add to mish's reply, except some opinions;
"..Won't it be converted to MPEG-2, which would downgrade the quality to SD and make the whole HD thing useless?.." ..Yes, pretty much. Unless, as mish says, you use Apple's (..rather expensive..) DVD Studio Pro, which can burn hi-def video onto a normal DVD ..but that kind of DVD can only be replayed on a Mac, and not on a normal standalone DVD player.
"..will it be converted to SD, bt still look better than regular DV camcorders?.." ..I don't think it does look better than regular DV. I think it looks worse.
So HDV looks terrific when played from the camera into a suitable HD TV, and it looks terrific after importing into your Mac, and played on an Apple Cinema Display, or other DVI-connected big screen. But after editing it in iMovie HD 6, your options are rather limited:
(a) Play it on a big screen connected to your Mac,
(b) Save it onto a hi-def DVD burned with DVD Studio Pro,
(c) Maybe 'Toast', or another application, will burn it as hi-def onto an external HD or Blu-Ray hi-def burner, for playing on a standalone HD or Blu-Ray player (..but d'you know anyone with one of those?..)
(d) Export the edited hi-def movie back to your camcorder - if the camcorder has a facility to accept it from iMovie - and connect the camcorder to an HD TV to play the edited tape.
HDV is wonderful for shooting with ..but the other end of the business - showing the edited hi-def movie - isn't quite properly in place yet..

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Or where you going to make a DVD data disc to simply share the QT movie with someone?
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Okay, so there are thrid party apps to do it, and I
greatly appreciate you explaining them, but is there
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everything except web and e-mail outputs?
I guess what I'm getting at is that Aperture is
supposed to be the ultimate workflow solution,
eliminating all other applications except Photoshop.
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at 300 dpi.
The thing is that DPI really means nothing independent of resolution - it is only a kind of hint to other programs as to what the size may be, but does not by itslef really control print size or anything else. Just a default size in some applications. Even though I have given a workaround for setting DPI I really don't use it myself as I simply export and then use the images in other programs, like InDesign, or send them off for printing.
Aperture currently simply ignores these values, passing them on from the original RAW file. So right now it has no way to alter DPI as it does not know what it is for any file. Aperture does not care, it does not need to as it scales images up or down as required by the task at hand.
I agree that Aperture should have some way to select a DPI for export, or possibly let you edit the metadata value for the resolution in a version (along with lots of other metadata). But I also think it really doesn't matter that much, as all that really matters in the end is how many pixels there are in the image you are outputting. That is something Aperture does let you control (though not quite as well for upsampling as I would like).
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I've attached the screenshot
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