Anybody have any tips for the best settings to export a Quicktime movie that I will be burning to DVD (through DVD Studio Pro)?  My media has been captured at DV25.  It's 16:9 HDV material.  It's a 90 minute program so I need to find the best compression without being an absurdly big file.

Also not sure the best way to maintain the proper image size.  If I do "same as source" for the export it seems to make an image that is 720 x 480 but needs to be displayed at 853 x 480.  Does this create an image size distortion down the road?  Am I best off running whatever I make out of Avid through a program like Compressor first before authoring the DVD?

Thanks for any tips.

Seth

Do the actual compression in Compressor. 

Export same as source (DV is 720x480) and make sure to set the levels for RGB as that is what Compressor/DVD studio Por expect. 

The 853x480 is 16X9. It is squeezed into a 720x480 frame to record in the 4X3 SD world. This is also how it is recorded on DVD. A flag is added to tell the player that the source is 16x9. Then the player either asks the user how they want to view, or if the user has set the standard, it follows that setting. The options are letterbox, 4x3 anamorphic (what your file is) or 4X3 centercut.

If you send out the 16X9 anamorphic, it will look squeezed on a 4X3 set and proper on a 16X9 set.

You can make that flag choice in compressor and again in DVD studio pro.