Outputting standard definition from Sony ex1

I'm triyng to outputting standard definition from Sony ex1 clips as explained in this article http://www.kenstone.net/fcphomepage/ex1_sd_outputyoung.html.
I got some motion files in the hd timeline. When I paste this file on the sd timeline the scale is totally different from the original.
Any ideas on what happens?

We are working with Final Cut 5 and DVCProHD material... (which, btw, is a good codec to use for FCP 4.5)
Downcoverting a finished product for SD DVD works really good in Compressor 2. After editing in FCP, I find it best to export as Self contained QT of your project. Then importing that into Compressor... and use the Compressor Preset for the SD MPEG-2 Compression for delivery on DVD. It has worked great!
But, another way you could try.. is once you have a finished product edited in FCP.... Print to render it, print it to Video on your HDV camera...
Use the Camera to Playback and recapture the the downconverted video onto the computer. You may find the downcoversion a bit better this way.
Good luck, hope this helps

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