Is Compressor as good as FCP export?

If I select Best Quality 4:3 90 Minutes
how do I tweak it further
and/or is this akin to
Final Cut's ability to export MPEG-2
with 2-Pass VBR, 7.5 + Mbps, Best Motion Quality
option that seems to have been discontinued?
thanks

Hey Evan,
from my calulations, you would need to encode your 90 min. movie at an average rate of 6.3 Mbps to fit on a dvd-5 (and thats assuming you are using .ac3 for audio @ 192 [stereo]).
but to answer your question, i would much rather use compressor than the export option in FCP, although technically it does use the compressor engine because of the control you have in compressor over FCP export.
think of it like using iMovies for editing vs. FCP.
Mikey

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