Exporting and DVD issues

Hello,
I have been trying for over a week to find a decent way to export my 54 minute film without a loss of quality without success! I have tried exporting as a quicktime document, exporting through compressor, sharing, exporting as an avi file: no go: I always get a crappy quality! I tried burning a DVD directly throught the "share" option but also got a lousy result. DVDs that are as high quality as the original films exist!!!! How can I do this with FCP 7.0.3 ???????? I would like to send my film to destivals and people are wanting to project it in public debates, including in theaters. So I really need a high quality export/DVD. HELP!!!!!!!

Big studio DVDs look that good because they:
1. utilize dedicated hardware to do the conversion to mpeg2
and
2. have a staff of wizards running the system that understand the dark magic necessary to do good compression.
Converting from HD to the standard definition size that is DVD is always going to look worse than the original (on the assumption that the HD was well exposed, sharply focused, etc).
If you start with HDV, the problems become worse.
Try this:
If you have not editied in a ProRes codec based timeline, do so.
Export the ProRes based file from FCP using "current settings". This will export a file at the full HD frame size and frame rate.
Open up Compressor and convert the HD ProRes version to a standard definition ProRes version with FRAME CONTROLS set to BEST.
Once you have the SD ProRes version, use Compressor again to create the m2v and ac3 files necessary to build and burn a DVD.
With a less than an hour project, I'd try encoding with a constant bit rate set at 7 and see how things work.
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