Best Setings for MPEG Streamclip?

Greetings,

I need the best settings to export from MPEG Streamclip into FCP 6 (FCS 2).

I have a macBook Pro 2Gb RAM, running latest FCS 2-FCP 6 archiving to G-Drive (firewire).
I captured DV from a Panasonic 3ccd camcorder 16x9 images.
Sequence settings frame size: 720x480 NTSC DV (3:2)
Pixel AR: NTSC - CCIR 601/DV (720x480)
Lower field dominance
Editing Timebase: 29.97
Compressor: DV/DVCPRO - NTSC 100% quality.

I have other footage from a DVD source to rip in MPEG Streamclip and import into FCP to best match the quality and settings (little or no rendering if possible).

FCP does NOT recognize .mp4 files, so I have to convert the VTS_01_1.VOB files.

What is the best possible setting scenario to export??

Export to QuickTime using the DV NTSC codec.

THanks for the reply.

Can you give me more specifics?

THe process first asks for "Export to Quicktime"
Then what compression to use (Apple DV/DVCPRO)?

Should I use multi-pass, B-frames, quality slider, interlaced, etc.?

Is there a setting regimen for DV NTSC in the rest of setting options?

THanks.

I told you the codec DV NTSC. Apple DV/DVCPRO NTSC.

Yes, interlaced. DV is a fixed compression data rate scheme quality sliders don't do anything.

Interlaced, Lower (even). Export to Quicktime, DV/DVCpro NTSC, as Tom Wolsky mentioned.

The rest don't matter. They're more to do with other codecs (eg. Mpeg).



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One more tip: make sure the Audio settings are: Uncompressed, Stereo, 48 kHz.

This ensures no audio rendering is needed when importing to FCP.

Piero