Burn AVCHD on Bluray with imovie 11

Hi everyone,
How can I burn my AVCHD footage on bluray disc out of imovie. tried several settings but quality looks bad.
Thanks
Tim

All you need to do is to use the SHARE Menu. Choose Share/Movie, SHARE/to iTunes, Share/To Media Browser, or Share/Export Using QuickTime. Use 720 or 1080 as size based on the size of your source material.
If you use Export Using QuickTime, you will need to choose h.264 as the codec and choose a very high bit rate, say 20Mbps.  Export to QuickTime using Apple Intermediate Codec would also work.
Take the file and drag it into Toast Titanium with BluRay Plugin.

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