Best output quality?

How do you achieve the highest possible quality output for a DVCPRO HD 720p24 project going to DVD?
Right now, I am using compressor>DVD Best Quality 90 min>Mpeg2 automatic settings. I didn't customize anything. And then I burn it in Toast also with the Automatic settings.
Is there a better way? Is this the best option?

If you duplicate your sequence, then delete all renders from the duplication, you save an extra compression using your method, and the higher the bit rate the better... however you can go too high too. For the first time ever I got a message in DVD SP that my bit rate was too high.. never saw that before (compressor 3). But deleting the renders does make a difference.
Also I've been compressing with DVD SP 4 and with Compressor 3, and gotta say without a doubt using compressor is a LOT better looking with the very difficult footage I've been working in. It's HD shots of the National Parks... pretty pictures but full of zillions of pine needles and such, and so MPEG has a really tough time with that in general. But the artifact was nearly NADA with Compressor 3 and a High CBR going down to SD DVD land...A dual pass best quality looked awful, and the same settings in DVD SP looked worse.
If the footage is simpler, I'm sure DVD SP will handle it just fine FWIW...
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