Hey,

This is one of my first questions to be presented here.  I work for an up and coming production company that is currently offlining a hour long show for CMT.  We shot our footage on Panasonic HMC-150 AVCHD.  I had to use FCP to transcode the AVCHD files into a format my MAC run MC could recognize, and imported the QTs at DNxHD 75.  The final product will be delivered in SD on a Digibeta.  My questions are as follows.

1.  What is the best way to down convert my 720p 29.97 FINAL sequence/footage to a 30i NTSC 4:3 letterbox for delivery?

2.  Should I downconvert before my colorist comes in to correct or should he correct the HD footage, then we do the downconvert?

3.  Are any of the DNxHD compressions considered safe to air or airable quality? (not essential for this project, but was curious just the same.)

Thanks for any input you guys can give me,

Noah

NOAHRIEKE:

1.  What is the best way to down convert my 720p 29.97 FINAL sequence/footage to a 30i NTSC 4:3 letterbox for delivery?

     You can just change the project type to NTSC 30 and transcode your media. Then it is an SD sequence.

NOAHRIEKE:

 2.  Should I downconvert before my colorist comes in to correct or should he correct the HD footage, then we do the downconvert? 

     Have the colorist correct in HD. He will have more room to work with the material.

NOAHRIEKE:

3.  Are any of the DNxHD compressions considered safe to air or airable quality?

     DNxHD 220.