Best way to output to dvd.

Ok I have to output 18hrs of media to dvd.Compressor is slow and I hesitate to use toast as I fear the quality may suffer, The project was shot on a consumer.prosumer cam (hvx 200) and keeping a decent image for TV is tough enough.
So I want to use a PC based product. As i believe render/encoding times are faster. I have already exported QT's of my projects ( I hoped this would speed up compressor but it did not, or if it did it was minimal) so what would anyone suggest i use in the PC world. I have access to Avid express and Vegas. This project will allow for the purchase of other software though. thanks for any input.

18 hrs??? Not all at once, I hope ... I mean, you are going to edit all this down into managble chunks for encoding right ... I generally don't try to go much beyond for 2 hours per DVD (Single Layer)in order to maintain quality. Depending upon your computer processor, RAM et al, Compressor should be able to handle this nicely .. mind you, MPEG2 compression is just long ... get used to it.
I don't know about PC solutions being all that faster thought it's been a while since I encoded a DVD on a PC. Compressor and DVD Studio Pro .. or even just DVD Studio Pro all by itself for that matter ... can certainly give excellent results.
Compressor gives you lots of compression options beyond their presets. I routinely make very well accepted product with that

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