Converting HDV to DVD

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Converting HDV to DVD

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Converting HDV to DVD. Read the full article here.

What’s wrong with Compressor and HDV ?
After getting a shiny HVR-Z1U and Final Cut Studio, I was somewhat disappointed with compressors efforts to make DVD compatible assets from HDV footage. In particular, it doubled every horizontal line. We shall be using a 4 second clip of a seaplane, above is a still from the HDV clip, scaled to 720x480, this is our visual target.

At the top are links to pages that show what’s wrong and how to fix it.

If you have a tabbed browser, I recommend opening the pages in tabs, you can flick between them to compare the images / movies.

Hope this helps, or solves your problem ;-)

Created June 14th 2006 at 2 am.
Based on Compressor 2.0.1 and FCP 5.0.4 on a G4
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Errors and updates will be worked in, as I get the time.

With many thanks to Ben Low for persevering, Dean Reece for suggestions, the FCP discussion boards for ‘keeping it reel’, and Apple and Sony for allowing me to make some damn fine home movies.
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