AVCHD (1080i) to DVD

Hi friends!
I´ve record with Sony cameras a wedding.The file format was AVCHD 1080i.
I need to deliver to the client a Bluray and a DVD with the same content.
Using the Premiere and Encore Cs6 the Bluray has a very good quality.
I have edit in Premiere using AVCHD and then I am sending it through Dynamic Link to Encore ( I am using the same procedure for Bluray and DVD).
The problem is when I ask Encore to transcode and generate a DVD disc, the quality is below the worst VHS tape.
I have tryed to use diferents export settings, but I am not so sure about the right configuration to reach the higest quality.
Apart from CS6 is there anything better to improve the DVD quality?
Is it possible to use Dual Layers DVD in order to improve the quality?
Thank you very much,
Rog.

John T Smith wrote:
When you export from a PPro AVCHD timeline to MPEG2-DVD you are changing the resolution to SD
The tutorial list in message #3 http://forums.adobe.com/message/2276578 may help
Yes, but there is more to it than this.
When you render from AVCHD 1080i to MPEG-2 DVD, you are not only changing the resolution from a sort of HD (to my way of thinking, nothing that is interlaced should ever be described as "High Definition" as there is far more to it than the pixel count) you are also going down to an extremely lossy form of SD.
Personally, I would always split the 2 tasks & scale to SD first (interim 10-bit) and then encode that to MPEG-2. It seems to get better results.
I would first render from PPro as a 10-bit uncompressed quicktime (Aja codec or similar) or a lossless AVI such as Lagarith, and then run that to MPEG-2.
As the source & the final are both interlaced great care must also be taken to maintain the correct field order, or there may be a very nasty artefact issue.

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