First bluray - share, compressor or DVD SP4?

Want to create my first bluray - have an internal bluray burner in my early 2008 Mac Pro...have a pro res timeline in FCP 7. Not yet rendered. So if I go to share, bluray, do I have to first render the timeline? Or does it just do it for me? How can I make custom menu and add custom menu buttons to this via that share/bluray dialogue box? If I want to use DVD SP 4, do I have to first make a QT mov, bring that into Coompressor, then that mpeg 2 into DVD SP4? Then burn a bluray out of DVD SP 4?
What's best workflow for making a custom 3 button menu, burning to bluray?
Thanks much!
K

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There is no support for authoring blu ray in DVD SP.
You might want to consider Toast 9/10 or Encore CS3/4 if you want to do more than a basic blu ray disc.

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