Breaking a 1080i project into sections

Hi all, it's been a while. Since I switched to Vista 64 bit, the vast majority of my PE7 issues have receded into the background. However, I came across a couple items I need advice on. I'm putting together a wedding video from 1920 X 1080i material from my Canon HF100 camera. The plan is to output the finished project as both a conventional DVD and a Blu-ray disk.
1. For PC resource conservation reasons, I have created a slide show and a video sequence as two separate projects and will then combine them into one DVD / Blu-ray output. However, I'll be danged if I can find an export / share setting that preserves the original quality and resolution of my 1920 X 1080 input footage. Exporting to DV AVI for example does not allow setting the output to 1920 X 1080 and any of the "share" options seem to be much more compressed. The only option I could find that was even close was "uncompressed" and a test export of a short clip showed that the actual export of the two projects would probably fill my 1TB drive and then some. Sorry..... I know this has been covered before but I can't find it.
2. If you apply a DVD menu template to the project, how the heck do you remove it if you change your mind? I had to use UNDO.
3. A simple one that eludes me.... how do I set keyframes so I can dynamically change the audio level within a given clip? I thought it was a right click on the timeline or the cursor but that doesn't work. I resorted to adding a fade in/out and moving the resulting fade points but there has to be an easier way.
FWIW, this project intentionally stressed my copy of PE7 and my C2Duo 3GHz PC with 4GB RAM. For example, the slide show consists of about 500 photos at ORIGINAL (ie., NOT re-sized) resolution (a mix of 8MP and 10MP). I had absolutely zero problems creating the project, editing it to add some titles and rendering it to a 1920 X 1080 MPEG. During render, the RAM usage was solid at about 1.8GB. The video project consists of about 35 minutes of full HD video. RAM usage never went above 1.85GB and it rendered successfully several times (as I searched for the right output type). Surprised the heck outa me.
Oh, and I see the forum is still as slow as ever. Another reason I was unable to find the answers using SEARCH..... each page refresh took FOREVER Seems to be a PC speed issue.... this machine is a P4 2.6GHz. My main (ie., home) machine is a C2Duo and the page refresh time is much better.
Paul

Thanks, that is how I analyzed it too. For a while I thought it might have something to do with the fact that I burned it with the NTSC widescreen preset so I burned another copy using the NTSC 4:3 preset, which played OK. But then the same DVD player played the original NTSC widescreen version this morning. I'm not sure what the difference is between the 4:3 preset and the widescreen preset and the help system wasn't..... helpful. The settings I can see appear to be identical between the two presets.
But after that little hurdle I started realizing that the video just didn't look as good as I think it can. The video looked soft and there were very noticeable compression artifacts and occasional scan line issues. I got to wondering whether my project settings were correct.... it was the only thing I could think of since the render process reported a bitrate in the 6Mb/S range which should be sufficient for SD video. Interestingly, the photos in the slide show looked terrific.
I had used the HDV 1920 X 1080i project setting and my video assets were AVCHD from my Canon HF100. So I did a short test project with the AVCHD full HD 1920 X 1080i setting and the output looked quite a bit better. No more compression artifacts but it still looked soft. I re-made the actual project and am rendering it now. We'll see how good it looks when burned to a DVD. If it still looks soft, I'm not sure what else to do.
Paul

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