OK so I have this client who had me shoot, edit and present in HD 1920x1080, The project looks so gooood. Now they say OK, looks great...we need a Standard Def DVD to project at our Luncheon, AARRGGG1! I downres, show them the final DVD and they of course say Wow I had no idea it would look this bad on the downres. I edited in a prores HD seq, exported a SD Prores QT, converted to Mpeg2 in Compressor bitrate at 6.0 2pass.
It's not the worst looking...but a far cry from the original HD.
My question is what is the highest bitrate you can compress an SD DVD to and still expect not to playback problems for the masses of DVD's.
They are duplicating a 1000 copies for the attendees and will be playing it back in SD to the projectors.
Thanks
Eroc