1080i to 720p

[NakedEye]

Anyone have any suggestions to go from a 1080/50i timeline to a 720/50p timeline.

I need to produce a cinema copy of a recent project and they want 720/50p to play nice with their projector...the 1080/50i original version scaled by the projector looks very ordinary....Just for a test I rendered out a lossless 1080 avi and dropped that into a 720/50p project timeline and rendered out to an m2ts file which is what they require...whilst it looked ok on the big screen the titles were very very soft. Ideally if I could transfer the titles to the 720p project and render from there I think it would look better. Of course simply changing the project settings would be ideal but this is a no no at present with Edius, even an AAF export of the 1080i projects titles fails to re import in the 720p project due to framerate missmatch (this is so annoying as Edius easily handles any framerate/resolution mixed in a project). Also wondering if the downconvert to 720p would benefit from VDub or T4 scaling?

I hope some of this makes sense...things are a bit hectic and this narrows ones objectivity at times. TIA

Regards

Dave.

[mattie]

Edius' AVCHD files are a little on the soft side - do you have T4 or Media Encoder by adobe?

I'd bung it in there and see what they can do for ya

But yr methodology is right - just find a decent encoder :)

[pjsssss]

Which titler did you use? I have to say that the quality of Vistitle is soooo much better than TMP or Quicktitler

[NakedEye]

Thanks guys for your responses....VisTitle was used for the titles.

It looks like I might have to reconstruct the titles in the 720p project as there seems to be no easy way to import them.

Any ideas on the downscale regards VDub or T4...just wondering if anyone has done this before and what your conclusions were.

Regards

Dave.