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Hi
I'm new to compressor and FCP and HDV. I'm coming over from the SD Avid world of editing and have a question aboutMPEG-2. IsMPEG-2 the best when it comes to finished quality when being compressed from HD to SD??? When I play a SD dvd that has down converted HDV footage on it, it looks real bad, just very pixelated??? I'm outputting HDV 1080i60 from FCP then opening Compressor and using the setting under DVD:Best Quality 90 minutes which is MPEG-2 6.2Mbps 2-pass. I was told to use this setting from a friend of mine. Or even the DV NTSC Anamorphic setting as well.
I hope I'm doing something wrong and using the wrong setting because I can't deliver this low HDV down converted product to my client:( If there is a much better quality setting out there, I would love to know about it:)
PLEASE HELP!!
Thanks, Jonathan

Hi
First a confession: I don't work with HDV ... but I found that [Bonsai’s HDV to DVD workflow|http://www3.telus.net/bonsai/Welcome.html] have helped others before in these forums.
Hope that helps !
Alberto

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