editing convert from HDV to NTSC ...

[perik]

Ok. I think now all the different possibillities in compressor trying to convert from

Frame size:
1440x1080

Vid Rate
25 fps

Compressor
HDV1080i50

Pixel Aspect:
HD (1440x1080)

Audio format
16-bit integer

Audio Rate
48 Khz

to:

NTSC: 720x480 29.97fps or
720x480 24fps

for burning it on DVD but the quality is NO good. Its getting murry and with pixels and my subtiles text is also murry and not good quality at all!

and the file I tested with, the one with the settings above are (just a small one for trying, maybe 7 seconds long) are about 70 mb and the ones Im converting to are around 10 so guess thats explains a bit of the quality??

are there NO way just decreasing the size of the footage in Final Cut and change it also to 24fps without loosing all the good quality it was from the beginning.

Im thinking of sending it to filmfestivals in America but with the quality it is after its converted I doubt that anyone want to screen it.

I also tried whith these programsusing MAC)

Episode encoder telestream
Canopus ProCoder (in windows)
compressor

but with similliar result. not good at all!

Is it possible to do the following way with hardware:

1) taking it back to a DV-tape in my camera Canon HV30
2) Connect my Camera to a seperate DV/HDV recorder and record it back as NTSC??

any other solution?
Im starting to get desperate (and tired of this thing)

thanks

 

[sonnyboo]

Make sure to use 2-Pass VBR (variable bit rate) and set the median to about 7,200, the highest to 8,400 and the lowest to 2,700 or so in the MPEG2 encoding.