Exporting HD Footage to SD DVD and WEB

I am working with HDV footage and DVCPROHD footage within FCP 7. I am having trouble with the quality of my movies when I export the movies to SD DVD and to the web.
Here's what I have tried. From FCP I export a quicktime movie then I take that into compressor. From compressor I have tried the DVD Best 90 min and the result is bad.
I am using an mp4 setting for Vimeo and YouTube, and the quality isn't too bad, but my files are still large and it takes forever to upload.
If someone has suggestions on the best way to encode in compressor for SD DVD and for Vimeo and Youtube, I would appreciate it.
Cody

You are still a bit vague. Different people have differing ideas as to what is good.
It may be that you are expecting too much and you may already be getting the best that's available.
Without seeing your results it is difficult to comment.
Regarding your DVDs, if your movie is under 65 minutes long you can probably tweak the quality by modifying the existing pre-set to give a CBR (Constant Bit Rate) of 7.5Mbps and change Multi-pass to Single-pass.
This will give you the highest possible quality in only half the encoding time. However, the improvement won't be startling but the time saving will be very welcome!
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