Compressor High Quality DVD Settings Gone!

Just "upgraded' to 4.07 and now under "Disc Burning' only H.264 for Blu-ray and now only MPEG-2 single pass (low quality) are available.
Where are the "Best Quality 90min" etc setting?
Thanks.

Yes. In the newer version, for disk burning, it's up to the user to create a custom setting and save for repeated use. So duplicate the setting and make whatever adjustments you require.
The old MPEG-2 settings were 2 pass variable bit rate, 6.2 Mbps average and 7.7 Mbps maximum. The Blu Ray setting is actually much higher quality in C4.
And there are a few things that C4 has that previous versions didn't offer, so on balance I would consider it an upgrade.
Good luck.
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Matti,
Thx so much for your help.. it's really appreciated. This is by far the best result quality wise, (but I really am a perfectionist and personally are still not overall happy with the final product) but if my client is happy.. then I will continue down this track for this job.
ie Create TIFF;'s>Quicktime PRO>iMovie (transistions)>iDvd
You've been a great help and I hope it good enough for the client.
I find the images and wording lose their sharpness only after being imported into iMoive. I could still be probably enhance the quality level of the TIFF's once more, as I did the test slides in Keynote, then exported the 5 slides a individual as TIFFS out of Keynote, then imported the into QuickTime Pro as you suggested then followed your instructions all the way to the final burning of the CD. I also tried doing this in Photoshop using your suggestion of 720x576 images (for PAL) .. pixel aspect ratio to ~1.094 so you can see the correct proportions for 4:3 video output. When creating the new slide in Photoshop there were a few extra settings other than the ones you gave me... _so I would real appreciate what every setting should be when creating the NEW TIFF file in Photoshop for PAL 4:3._ I noticed when I did this the image crispness on the fonts was shithouse pixelated and shadows, even while looking at it from inside Photoshop )
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sycosingo
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