Recording in HD & creating an SD DVD with iDVD 05

I have been tearing my hair out over this... I have imported HD content from my camcorder into iMovie HD 05 & that has been fine. I know that I cannot create HD DVDs currently, but I want to record in HD & perhaps use this footage in the future. Anyway, when it comes to creating the DVD, I get through to the 'process movie' part or the 'burn' part & it either tells me that the disk has errors or, before it is even burned, that there have been multiplexing errors. (I dont know what this means, but I'm sure there are plenty of you reading this who do)
So far I have tried:
Just creating the dvd from the original iMovie file (in HD).
Creating various quick time exports (of different sizes)and then importing them into iDVD. None of this has worked. Is it even possible to shoot in HD & then create an SD DVD? I hope so or my wife is going to kill me for insisting on that HD camcorder!
Its only a short film (approx 20 mins) & there is loads of space on both the external hard-drive I am working from & the internal hard-drive.
Can anyone out there help me?

Welcome to the forums.
Apple says that iMovie can work with high definition video, but that the video is converted in iDVD:
"High Definition and Widescreen Video
iDVD 5 now imports high definition video (HDV) and 16:9 widescreen formats from iMovie HD. iDVD 5 converts these formats to a standard definition DVD format that allows you to create the coolest-looking DVDs, while retaining the highest quality video."
So, iDVD is doing a lot of work during the video conversion. Here are some guidelines for reducing errors during this process:
Lots of memory helps; and you'll need 10-15 gigs of free space on your main hard drive for scratch space.
Buy good quality disks - I've seen recommendations for Maxell, Sony, Verbatim, TDK and a few others based on testing. I primarily use the first two and usually don't have trouble.
Give yourself lots of time.
Turn off your screen savers and energy savers; don't let your hard drive go to sleep.
Get your computer healthy and ready for some heavy lifting. (video work could be the hardest job your computer can do) MacJanitor followed by Apple's DiskUtility's Repair Permissions is my routine.
Most of the time iDVD is working, it is encoding (compressing) your video to fit on the DVD. Create an image file (Save As Disk Image) and use Toast or Disk Utility to burn it to disk. Burn slow (1 or 2x).
I import into iDVD rather than export from iMovie (fewer errors).
No other apps open.
John

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I bought myself an HD-camera with a Hard Disk (Sony HDR-XR500E). The native format is AVCHD.
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Hello Tom,
Sorry for the late reply but the last few days I had other things to my mind.
In the meantime I realise why I was confused, … and you gave me the understanding or the missing link to understand what was happening.
My original problem was burning a HD project I made in FCE on a DVD in SD.
I thought that:
1. FCE made an export in a HD format, … and this is right.
2. iDVD could only accept a movie file in SD, … and this was wrong.
That’s why I was looking for a method to convert my HD-movie in an SD-movie to feed iDVD.
So my problem is solved.
Bringing a HD movie from FCE to iDVD is very simple: It’s the same as bringing a SD movie to iDVD. iDVD recognizes an HD movie, and does the conversion to SD automatically. So my problem is solved. I produced a DVD starting from my HD movie and it looks as good as the movies I made in the past with my old DV-camera.
It’s a pity I couldn’t find the workflow, to turn a HD movie made by FCE into a SD movie on a DVD using iDVD, in the documentation of FCE or iDVD.
Why was I confused?
When I was looking at the playback in the canvas window I saw rather good pictures (no artefacts).
When I was looking at the exported movie with my QT player I saw a lot of interlacing artefacts. That’s why I thought there was something wrong with the coding of the exported video, … but it wasn’t.
Your explanation about looking at the canvas window in 100%, and the fact that viewing at any other than 100% was showing a reduced resolution (with interpolation, using only one field) made me understanding the problem.
I did a few tests to verify my thinking. In FCE I used de-interlacing on the video. In the canvas I saw a rather good picture nearly the same as the original (without de-interlacing). When I exported that de-interlaced video and viewed this file in QuickTime, the artefacts were gone.
So, my conclusion is: Don’t use QuickTime to control an exported movie from FCE, because QT is using an interpolating scheme with both fields. The result is absolutely bad especially when there are fast moving objects in the movie.
Tom, thanks again for your help.
I was just wondering what kind of education you have in video, because you seems to know what you are talking about.
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