Exporting AVCHD to blue-ray

Hi everyone. I am very new to the world of H.D. and I have a question. Simply... what do I have to do to export my video to blue ray from fcp7? I do have an external blue ray burner that I assembled my self and yes it does work. Just not sure of the settings for proper export. I see that idvd will not burn full H.D. 1080i video and nor will dvdsp because its a dvd burning software and not a Blue Ray application. The video that I am exporting will have chapters so I'm wondering if the new Toast titanium 11 will work. Any suggestions or advise? Thanks so much in advance.
I am also using Premeire Pro cs5.5 if that could help in any way.

http://forums.creativecow.net/thread/20/861769
It's a couple years old but still relevant. It uses 5.1 audio, but will work for 2.0 also. Toast Titanium 10 is used, but 11 will work too. The compression is MPEG-2 which compresses alot faster than AVC and if you crank the bit rate it looks great. Don't bother using 2 pass, one pass is good.In the Encode tab under "extras" you can select to use chapter markers. At max bit rate you should get approximately 90 minutes with 192kbs. AC-3.
Good Luck.

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