best codec

[Rafael Amador]

[William Wasson] “When exporting hd video 1440×1080 what’s the best codec. Someone recommended dvcp”
What you expect to do with your film?
How you want to distribute it?

[William Wasson] ” I shot with an hdv camera at 23.98. I don’t want interlaced video. any suggestions?”
That’s already progressive.
rafael

http://www.nagavideo.com

[Andrew Rendell]

What’s best depends on what you’re going to do with it. Best practice is to minimise the number of times that any footage is changed to a different codec (because every time it’s changed you lose a bit of quality), so in general one would export from FCP in whatever codec it’s been edited in, then use something like Compressor to make a version in whatever codec you need for any particular purpose.