[Spdntckt]

Johnny –

I had this problem as well – What i found was that i needed to do three things to get a qualiy output in SD from HD source.

1) Set compressor to LOWER field dominance.. i know HDV is upper.. but that setting didnt work for me in compressor 2.. lower worked fine

2) set the GOP setting to IP. This was more of a tweak which got much better quality (at least for the material i was encoding)

3) DONT use any VBR setting. use the CBR setting and use as high of a bit rate as you can (in my case i could use 7.5mb/s since i didnt have a very long movie – only 26 mins).

let me know how that works!

[Spdntckt]

Thax –

Yes – your suggestion works well for DV, but for HDV unfortuntaely this does not work – FCP cannot export HDV native during a timeline play – you must use print to video (edit to tape is also not supported)

This is even worse for us who are trying to edit in HD, because the number of devices which can output HD are limited. For me, i need to use HDV tape connected to an HD monitor in order to view content in high-def – so i REALLY need to be able to get my FCP content back onto an HDV tape.. (if HD-DVD existed in a standard format i could use that.. but we are still a bit away from that solution…..)

I am running Tiger 10.4.2 – 7200 RPM maxline drives, dual 2.5 with 2.5G ram… any other suggestions? is there a 3rd party tool you can use to get the content out to tape? I have posed/looked around the Apple FCP forums and it seems there are others with this problem. I have even formatted my disk and re-installed tiger and FinalCut Studio and still have the same problem.