[Brian Semple]

Ansers to your questions….
1. no, not letter box. 16:9.
2. how would you do the conversion? I tried self contained & looked the same and have tried DVDSP and same result.

The quality monitoring from the timeline is fine (apart from also trying to sort the interlacing affects on movement), but making a MPEG2 from it looks terrible. That’s why I’m trying to find out if being HDV format causes it OR do I have to convert all to ProRes. Also would the Quicktime version affect it. With Avid had no problem making MPEG2’s from HDV or DNxHD.

Thanks for the welcome and I hope I don’t get too frustrated using FCP after the ease of Avid. But there a lot of things that can be done in FCP once I can get my head around it.

[Brian Semple]

Hi. Now morning in Australia and thanks for all your answers.I am viewing it both on Dell HD computer monitors and a Sony Trinitron monitor. On both the results look terrible.

[Brian Semple]

Hi. Just to joined you guys…. I am having the same problems with getting to DVD as Ian. I am in Pal land as well. Have tried straight to Compressor and get terrible results….. which settings do you use? Have tried making QT file and using Toast and again terrible quality. So at the moment I don’t know what to do. I’m fairly new to FCP obviously and maybe I’m missing settings or something. I have use Avid for many years and never had any problems like this…. make QT ref file and straight to DVD in high quality.