Quality loss and sizing problem

Hi guys
I am new to the creative suite 3. I produce swf adverts which play on a 32" widescreen at 1280x720. Occasionally I have to put these swfs in a showreel and burn to dvd to play via a set top dvd player (PAL). My problem is twofold:
1. when i export the fla's as avi's the quality is perfect, but once burned to dvd it is poor
2. I cannot get the dvd to fit the 32" screen - it always "letterboxes"
I realise that the aspect of a dvd is set to 720x460, but ids there any way I can created high quality dvds to play on the 32" widescreen, without going to blu-ray?
Many thanks for any suggestions!

I don't do Pal, but notes I made when first reading this forum say that is 720x576 so you might check your 460 number

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jduprez
You have solved the problem inadvertently
No. Twice no.
1) You have solved the problem. Not me. I just gave a push in the (apparently) right direction. You deserve more credits.
2) Take my word for it, this was anything but inadvertently . Indeed it's a well-known trait of the SSCCE "methodology", that the developer often discovers the origin of the problem, and hopefully finds the solution as well.
- If you demonstrate the problem in shorter code, means there are less suspects to investigate.
- If you don't, then you start adding things to look more than the real program, one thing at a time, until you find one thing that introduces the problem.
I'm not promoting SSCCE to prevent or refrain people from posting questions in the forum. I'm a addict of this forum, and I'm the first one frustrated when there are no questions here.
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If you have any othe suggestions I'be very pleased!!
Thanks
Bruce

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Actually I discovered since posting the question, that the dimension is something to due with it, but too small rather than too large. I was capturing at 640 x 480 and I discovered that capturing 768 x 576.
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While I agree everyone should have owned a HD camera by now, there are a lot of low-end SD cameras that are still being sold today. In this era of our economy, consumers are sensitive to prices; especially low or lower prices.
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If one can convert quality interlaced footage into quality progressive footage, you can use that footage and create good results using iMovie 11. I agree with you and Tom that iMovie 11 captures interlaced footage in full. But what's the use if it can't make a good product in the end that looks like what iMovie 6HD can do and when there are PC software out there including the free Windows Movie Maker that can do this with no problem.
Consumers, unlike some of us, only relate to past software used and are usually benign to the fact of progressive vs interlaced. I have dealt with some mis-informed customers that they believed FULL HD only means 1080p at 60fps; anything else is not. I digress.
With Mac users, they don't necessarily follow the same upgrade frequency as PC users either. Macs generally last a lot longer between upgrades compared to a PC because they don't have to run a barage of virus/spam/anti-malware growing definition files which ultimately slow an otherwise healthy PC down. Macs do not have to worry about this.

Quality loss after exporting 1280 x 960 30fps footage

Hello everyone,
Everytime I edit and export footage shot with my GoPro camera (1280x960p, 30fps) the quality gets a little less. Very frustrating as I am clueless after a long time of looking for what I'm doing wrong..
I use Premiere Pro Version 4.2.1
Sequence presets:
General
Editing mode: Desktop
Timebase: 29,97fps
Video Settings
Frame size: 1280h 960v (1,0000)
Frame rate: 29,97 frames/second
Pixel Aspect Ratio: Square Pixels (1.0)
Fields: No Fields (Progressive Scan)
Export settings:
Format: H.264
Preset: Custom
TV Standard: NTSC
Frame Width: 1280
Frame Height: 960
Frame Rate (fps) 29.97
Field Order: None (Progressive)
Pixel Aspect Ratio: Square Pixels.
Has anybody got an idea what could help here?

Thanks for the replies guys, but unfortunately the problem isn't really solved yet..
I tried checking the maximum render quality, but that only resulted in my laptop not being able to smoothly play the exported video.
Filming with the 1280 x 720 setting is possible, but then the footage just doesn't look that sharp.. (as I can't film in 60fps, I got the first GoPro 960).
I installed Cineform and converted a little test video to AVI. This resulted in an export video without quality loss, but the conversion with Cineform took way too long for it to be a practical solution cause I edit a lot.
At last, Abhishek Kapoor, I couldn't find the video setting you're talking about to increase the maximum bitrate.
Any other ideas that might work?

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