Best Setting for iTunes using Compressor 4

Can anyone give me a little advice. I have recently purchased a Panasonic X900 camcorder, very happy with the ease of use in FCPX using 1080/50p with surround sound. I use iTunes to play home movies to my television what would be the best compressor settings to make the most of this quality?
Also what would be the best setup to create Blu Ray Discs as previously I have used iDVD but I really want to make the best quality I can.
Thank you in advance.

Hi Ian,
Try one of the Apple TV presets for your movies.
Blu-Ray is a little complicated. There is a template choice in Compressor that will encode and burn either a physical or virtual (disk image) BD. By all means try it. It's a very limited menu and options. You'll need a Blu-Ray burner and a player and, of course, media.. If you want to move up to the kind of menus and selections you can work with in DVD Studio Pro and iDVD, you probably need to look at Adobe.
Good luck.
Russ

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