Don,
If you paste 16:9 HD video into your 4:3 SD sequence and then scale the video is this in effect a digital zoom on SD quality video, or is it zooming in on the original HD file?
I have tried this already an noticed something was odd when it came to patterns of horizontal lines. I'm not sure if it is a loss of quality from the scaling, or if it is because the HD video has too much detail to cram into SD video resolution. Any ideas on how to work around this?
I did find a helpful link in a different forum,
Outputting SD from HD ,but it is a downconverting method specifically for the Sony EX1 and XDCAM EX format (which is what I'm using). I have yet to try this method but will soon.
Many Thanks!