Re: Compressing 720p timeline to standard def DVD

Yes, I have also brought in a self-contained export from FCP into Compressor, using the DVD "best quality" preset. This, too, yields "twitter" issues (we ought to add that word to our professional vocabulary). I, too, check my DVDs on a 1080p plasma and a 20" standard definition 4:3 TV.

Guess all I want is for the DVD to look as smooth as one would expect video to look (i.e. - as it looks coming out the Kona card downconverted to standard def), without the twitchiness on pans, etc. I could, I suppose, lay off the downcoverted signal from the Kona LHe card to standard-def tape or DVD recorder, re-digitize again, and work with now-standard definition footage. Somehow there has to be a more foolproof way...

Larry