Preferred Settings for Capturing HD Video

What are the preferred settings, when capturing video from an HD
camera, in order to produce the best quality output for creating
streaming video on the web?

Our cinematographer is convinced that she has used the wrong settings
when capturing the video(s) for her latest work. The rendered
Quicktimes play in full-screen on her 17" monitor, and cannot be
resized; however, when she was working with SD, she was able to play
the video in a resizable window. Those vids were output at 720x480
resolution. I'm not sure the resolution of the new camera, but it's
much larger than the SD.

What may have changed?

-- the SASS Man

Your question is might broad. In general, I'd say use the Final Cut Pro Easy Setup for her camera. Then edit in Final Cut Pro. To export for web video, you'll export to Compressor. Then, just use a preset for the format you'd like.

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