Jonathan Green
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Try this and let me know if its any better. I am also continuing to look for the best workflow.
I have had good luck with the following HDV to DVD workflow. Export the HDV via QT Conversion using the H.264 codec. Set the resize here to 720×480 and use the best quality. Then bring this QT into Compressor 2 with GOP set to IP. Just drag into Compressor 2, don’t go back to FCP. I used 60 minute high quality encode widescreen. Make sure to resize in QT rather than Compressor, you will get better quality and a much shorter compression time. My HDV piece had many freeze frames and slow motion. This procedure was much smoother and sharper than others I tried that needed to be deinterlaced to get rid of artifacts.
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After three months of heroically trying to get the Burly Hotswap box to work I returned it and am now working with a rock solid FirmTek 4 bay hotswap enclosure connected to a Firmtek SeriTek 4 port SATA card. I am running a standard dual 2.7 G5 with no other PCI cards. I first tried the Burly with a Sonnet 8 port card. This gave me constant system crashes, freezing, and the weird anomaly of multiple versions of the same SATA drive showing up at once. I then switched to the FirmTek card. This card much more gracefully reported disk disconnects without crashing the system but these disk disconnects continued on a regular basis making the system virtually unusable. My system log regularly reported hardware errors with both cards connected to the Burly. With the FirmTek card now connected to the FirmTek enclosure I have had no further problems.
I believe that the Burly box is incapable of handling clear connections to the drives and that momentary component failures or inadequacies or the loss of data integrity causes the crashes and freezing. These seem to be caused by inadequate Burly internal components. Also the Burly uses an internal cable to connect the external cables to the drives while the FirmTek with removable trays allows you to plug the drive directly into the backplane. See http://www.barefeats.com/hard46.html for more info on the delicacy of SATA connection technology. A quick review of many problems discussed on the MacGurus support forums will show that the problems I experienced are fairly common with the Burly box.