Downconverting a FCP edited project in HDV to create a SD dvd

Hello,
I've just finished a Project that was shot on Z1 and was editied in HD1080i on FCP. I want to create a SD dvd on DVDSP 4.0.3. My workflow that i have tried is exporting a QT using the export command and the default settings of HDV1080i and that gives me a QT which is by 1920 X 1080. i then brought that into compressor 2 and used the apples setting of high qualtiy 90min 16:9 preset. I altered the .m2v preset so that the filed dominance was upper layer, i changed the "frame control" to be custom (in "resizing control" i selected "best" on "resize filter" i changed it to "top first" and finally i changed the "deinterlace" to "best".
i then imported the encoded project into a SD DVDSP project and burnt it. Is this the best way to get the highest quality of final DVD or am i just doing it in an unnecessarelly complicated way?
many thnaks in advance for any help with this.
Fred

You say SD DVD, but do you mean anamorphic 16:9 on regular DVD-Video? There are way too many lines in 1080i for normal NTSC, and as you're deinterlacing anyway I think the field dominance issues don't apply.
Here's a quick test I did with some 1080i video, I just deinterlaced it and scaled it straight to 720x480. It's H264, so DV would look better, but it may give you an idea. I guess the result is 29.97P, if there is such a thing! After creating the 720x480 movie I then sized it to 854x480, which is the right size for SD 16:9. Here you go:
http://staff.funnygarbage.com/colin/scaled.mov
One thing I've been curious to try is to take every third pixel from 1920x1080i, in both directions and laying it into a 640x480 frame. That should give a perfect 60i 640x480 video, with the picture information in the 640x360, 16:9 middle part (and which Compressor would happily compress to MPEG-2). I know that people argue to have anamorphic so that more quality is in the picture when it's stretched to fill a widescreen TV, but as you'll notice in my short clip some vertical edges gain artifacts from being squished horizontally.

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