7D DVD quality looks terrible.

[Eric Pautsch]

This question is asked probably twice a week

You need to down convert your sequence to 720×480 NTSC or 720×576 PAL uncompressed 23.98 16×9 anamorphic first. After this you can encode with Compressor you get the MPEG 2 file you need. FCP isnt very good down conveter…best to use Compressor for this

[Daniel Ludwig]

hi,
you can use MPEG streamclip to do a good downscaling (PC and MAC)

if you are on mac, you can also use bitvice purifier for downconverting – is doing a real good job.

cheers

danny

[Bruno Silva]

I am on a Mac and have MPEGstreamclip. So whats the process of downscaling through Streamclip? My FCP export is 1080×720 59.98.

[Eric Pautsch]

If you’re on the Mac, Just use Compressor staight out of your timeline to create a 720×480 16×9 anamorphic uncompressed or lossless file then used that file again to make a MPEG 2 file. Never used MPEG Stream clip for down conversions so I cant say.

Also Do a search, there are tons of good posts on this topic already.

[Daniel Ludwig]

I wouldn´t prefer streamclip as well, I would do it with purifier – much better quality.

cheers

danny