[Avid-L2] 1080p to Standard DVD Workflow Trouble

Hey L,

First time taking HD to standard DVD and I'm hoping to get some workflow
advice from the guys who know.

I'm in Xpress Pro HD 5.2.7 and Ulead DVD and I have a 1080p 23.976 sequence.
I need to burn it to a standard DVD.

I've tried exporting uncompressed and going to Squeeze and MPG2, and I've
also tried exporting MPG4 from Avid, but each time, trying various settings,
it looks bad on the DVD.

Can you recommend the workflow and settings to make this work? Should I be
exporting a particular frame size, frame rate and data rate? Compressing to
a particular frame size, frame rate and data rate?

I've exported as uncompressed QT, 23.976, 601 Color, 1920x1080p, and
compressed in Squeeze to MPG2, 1280x720, 29.97, 16:9, Bottom Field First, 24
I Frames, 1 Pass CBR, 10,000 Data Rate. And I've tried various combos of
these settings.

Any help is greatly appreciated.

Thanks,

Les

Les Nagy

Maladaahn

708.516.6505

<mailto:lnagy@maladaahn.com> lnagy@maladaahn.com

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