Best workflow for Blu-ray/DVD projects

For most of my encore projects, I end up creating a blu-ray and dvd version of the project.  What is the best way/workflow to do this?  I always seem to end up running into problems.

Unless you are working with a high end pro format, Pro Res 422 is perfectly fine to use as a master file. PR 4444 is PR HQ with an alpha channel so you probably can save a lot of space and speed up your exports by dropping down two levels.
If you use the BluRay prests in Compressor, it should do a very good job of encoding. Perhaps Toast is recompressing your file. I don't use the software but I think there is a setting simewhere to avoid the second compression.
Or have FCP make the BD directly.
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