Will a 1080i source make a pristine 720p .mov file?

I have a Canon HG10 (AVCHD) video camera. I set the camera to HQ (15Mbps/60/1080i). I also use FCP 2.0 and Compressor.
First of all. I know that I can keep the native source (camera) target (Compressor) resolution the same 1080/60i. But does this mean that I can make a progressive 720p version of a 1080i source file by just down grading the aspect ratio?
All the HQ AVC file are 1440x1080i. But I compress them (H.264) and make them smaller aspect ratios for portability. Just wondered if a 720p target file would actually be rendered correctly from a 1080i source file.

I had to move on and make the video all over again, but in the process I figured out what I had done. Quicktime has options in the Save As dialog to "Save as a self-contained movie" or "Save as a referenced movie". It is obvious that my edits (which included pasting from another file), were saved as a referenced movie the way I saved it. I then hosed the file when I threw away the referenced file.

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I'm an electronics retailer. I had the idea to capture HD video from my antenna with my elgato EYETV 500 and take intro sequences and varrious materials and put them into a HD movie I could loop to play on my sales floor. Currently I have created a loop with iMove HD 6 and it looks pretty good using the DVCPro setting but I think it could be better. My question is, one, is there a better compression setting to use for HD, and two, would FCP 5 help me much with this project. Just would like to gather some info before dropping $1299.00 on software. Thanks for the help.
P.S. Size is no issue as long as it can be played back from a harddrive.

All captured video plays back from a hard drive. Just so you know.
BUT...the best format of HD you are going to be able to get on a system with a secodary internal hard drive as your scratch disk, or a firewire 800 drive, is DVCPRO HD. Beyond that you are getting into uncompressed HD, and that realy required SATA Raids or Fibrechannel Raids.
Ho will you play this back to the TVs? DVI? DVCPRO HD will most likely be the best you can get.
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If I buy quicktime 7 pro, will it help me load h.264 encoded .mov files in PREL13?

Presently in PREL13, when I attempt to playback any of a group of about 100 video clips all encoded with h.264 in a qt.mov container, they skip or halt, initially the video, then the audio as well. Rendering does not help. I installed the latest version of regular QuickTime, and the video play is the same. I don't need to do any extremely complicated editing here, but I can't really do any if I can't reliably determine start and end points, or really establish video content at all. I cannot pause or seek or really anything. It's possible that my old slow computer just can't hang. Video plays acceptably in QT regular player, seekable, pause/play works fine.
Will there be any advantage to buying the pro version? What would my work flow look like? Could I skip intermediary file steps and work from the original video files?

So unfortunately, I don't know the camera settings.
I only bought quicktime because I thought it would help me work with these videos.
Back to your initial questions shortly. In that regard, what is the file extension of these 100 videos...mov or qt?
The file extension is .mov. I didn't entirely follow the other stuff. As I said, the two programs are reporting different information about the same file.
Additionally, I can report what MediaInfo says about the same file (which seems a little more comprehensive, including for instance that it was shot on a canon, in AVCHD 1080i60:
General
Complete name                            : X:\XXXXX\XXXXX\Clip #1.mov
Format                                   : MPEG-4
Format profile                           : QuickTime
Codec ID                                 : qt
File size                                : 225 MiB
Duration                                 : 3mn 57s
Overall bit rate mode                    : Variable
Overall bit rate                         : 7 946 Kbps
Encoded date                             : UTC 2014-08-08 18:02:58
Tagged date                              : UTC 2014-08-08 18:03:48
Writing library                          : Apple QuickTime
com.apple.proapps.reel                   : CANON
com.apple.proapps.isGood                 : 0
com.apple.proapps.dataSize               : Unknown kind of value!
com.apple.proapps.displayFormat          : 1080i60
com.apple.proapps.shootingRate           : Unknown kind of value!
com.apple.proapps.videoBitrate           : 0
com.apple.proapps.originalFormat         : AVCHD 1080i60
com.apple.proapps.pulldown               : 1
com.apple.proapps.mediaRate              : Unknown kind of value!
com.apple.proapps.timecodeFormat         : 1
com.apple.proapps.numberOfAudioChannels : 2
com.apple.proapps.sampleRate             : 48000
com.apple.proapps.bitsPerSample          : 16
com.apple.quicktime.creationdate         : 2014-07-22T19:18:49-0500
com.apple.proapps.manufacturer           : Canon
com.apple.proapps.clipFileName           : Clip #1
com.apple.proapps.clipID                 : 000000000c68e80029fd297d7dbc45455b176f5a5b1441d8d93257481836befb68ebe0dbe13d88e46d63e6746 972dad41111104706aed608eea1886ad32653b1317dc61a12c5dcdebe674a1920bf58c690cf959c09350c6e
com.apple.proapps.RADSDKVersion          : 3.1
com.apple.proapps.cameraID               : 3D2CB7D4-9473-3E4C-9DE9-257FB8F6BB73
com.apple.proapps.cameraName             : CANON
com.apple.proapps.ingestDate.description : 2014-08-08 14:02:58 -0400
com.apple.quicktime.make                 : Apple
com.apple.quicktime.model                : MacBookPro11,3
com.apple.quicktime.software             : Mac OS X 10.9.4 (13E28)
Video
ID                                       : 1
Format                                   : AVC
Format/Info                              : Advanced Video Codec
Format profile                           : [email protected]
Format settings, CABAC                   : Yes
Format settings, ReFrames                : 2 frames
Format settings, GOP                     : M=3, N=15
Codec ID                                 : avc1
Codec ID/Info                            : Advanced Video Coding
Duration                                 : 3mn 57s
Bit rate mode                            : Variable
Bit rate                                 : 6 362 Kbps
Maximum bit rate                         : 12.0 Mbps
Width                                    : 1 440 pixels
Height                                   : 1 080 pixels
Display aspect ratio                     : 16:9
Frame rate mode                          : Constant
Frame rate                               : 29.970 fps
Color space                              : YUV
Chroma subsampling                       : 4:2:0
Bit depth                                : 8 bits
Scan type                                : Interlaced
Scan type, store method                  : Interleaved fields
Scan order                               : Top Field First
Bits/(Pixel*Frame)                       : 0.136
Stream size                              : 180 MiB (80%)
Title                                    : Core Media Video
Encoded date                             : UTC 2014-08-08 18:02:58
Tagged date                              : UTC 2014-08-08 18:03:48
Color primaries                          : BT.709
Transfer characteristics                 : BT.709
Matrix coefficients                      : BT.709
Audio
ID                                       : 2
Format                                   : PCM
Format settings, Endianness              : Little
Format settings, Sign                    : Signed
Codec ID                                 : sowt
Duration                                 : 3mn 57s
Source duration                          : 3mn 57s
Bit rate mode                            : Constant
Bit rate                                 : 1 536 Kbps
Channel(s)                               : 2 channels
Channel positions                        : Front: L R
Sampling rate                            : 48.0 KHz
Bit depth                                : 16 bits
Stream size                              : 43.5 MiB (19%)
Source stream size                       : 43.5 MiB (19%)
Title                                    : Core Media Audio
Encoded date                             : UTC 2014-08-08 18:02:58
Tagged date                              : UTC 2014-08-08 18:03:48
Other
ID                                       : 3
Type                                     : Time code
Format                                   : QuickTime TC
Duration                                 : 3mn 57s
Time code of first frame                 : 00:00:00;00
Time code, striped                       : Yes
Title                                    : Core Media Time Code
Encoded date                             : UTC 2014-08-08 18:02:58
Tagged date                              : UTC 2014-08-08 18:03:48

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Hi there...
I have a weird question - is it possible to make an online video (.MOV file) "un-downloadable"?
I work at a college and a professor wants to post some videos within the school's public site. But, because of his concern with copyright, he wants to make it so the videos are impossible to download to the viewers' local machines.
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http://homepage.mac.com/kkirkster/MTV/
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So 1080i is a little bit overkill for me, especially since I dont actually own an HDTV or anything so i was just curious as what the workflow would be for going down to 720p?
Can I just make a new 720p sequence and drop the 1080i footage in there and let final cut deal? Or should I render out a new 720p version in compressor (if so how)? Or is there a way to bring it in at 720p during the LOG&TRANSFER process?

You cannot do this via Log and Transfer. You have two choices, either transcode the footage immediately after from 1080i60 to 720p60 and then edit, or edit your sequence as 1080i60 and then transcode.
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http://tiny.cc/fv47u
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