So I took it out of HDV and transfered the file to DVCPro HD with “Compressor” then brought it back to AE and rendered it in the same project the render took about 17 min for :10 as the HDV took longer. I was reading that if you are using HDV footage in AE therre are alot of problems and might slow down renders because of intera frames.Just wondering for broadcast and blue ray is DVCPro HD a good formate to work with? would I be able to deliver a 1280×1080, how would i deliver this to a broadcaster? what kind of tape. Please help me with different work flows. I am doing a test now changed the HDV footage to photo jpeg and doing a test in AE CS3. I will let you know. I will render using photo jpeg and bring into FCP. Would you have a pdf of different work flows for different deliverables, this would help me out greatly. Thanks for your help so far.