Burning SD-DVD with HD Footage: Compression?

[Scott Belyea]

Could someone please tell me the best compression rate to burn an SD-DVD from an HD file?

Just burned my first DVD of a music video shot with HVX @ 720PN. Edited with FCP and exported into .MOV file.

File looks great in QuickTime! Used DVDStudioPro to burn SD-DVD, now the image looks very pixellated. Quite nasty even. Not crisp and clean like the file.

Is there a compression setting I'm missing that will help the image retain its HighDef quality? Anything that will avoid making the HD movie look like a web streamed video?? Or must I wait for the future to catch up to burn HD-DVD???

Is the answer found in FCP or Compressor or DVDSP? Or third party (please god no)

There must be an answer... You have it, I know you do.

[David Saraceno]

These are the crucial factors:

1. Length of the video in total minutes

2. Maximum and target bit rate for video in mbps

3. Encode audio aiff to ac3/Dolby2 at -31 normalization at 192 kpbs

4. Brand of blank media

5. No paper labels. We need this information.

[HVXguy]

From your timeline:
Export using compressor
Find the DVD settings you like,
try the best encode at 90 min setting.
Export your video and audio files.
You should get an .m2v file and a choice
of .ac3 or .aiff for audio

Open DVDSP

Import your new files.

Do you DVD authoring,

build your program and then burn.

I actually build the AUDIO_TS & VIDEO_TS
folders and then copy to a FAT 32 drive
and do my burning on the PC.
I seem to get better compatobility that way.

But dropping the .mov file into DVDSP is probably
where you are getting the quality hit.