HD & SD mixed format - ultimate output will be SD DVD.... help?

I am working on a small doc for a client who will only ever want an SD DVD as final deliverable format. This will never be broadcast. For reasons I won't bore you with, the DP we hired shot DVCPro HD 720p60. I also have some home movies to cut in and those are of course SD and 4:3.
I tried using Compressor to downconvert the HD to 10-bit uncompressed NTSC, but in final cut it didn't look so great.
I tried upconverting the SD footage to DVCPro HD 720p60. Since it is old home movies anyway, the quality isn't as crucial and I thought this was a more visually acceptable option than the downconverting had been. HOWEVER, it is now squished and the only way I can figure out how to unsquish it is to blow it up even further... pushing the limits of what is acceptable. (Also I would prefer to crop out part of the frame rather than pillarboxing.)
And finally, I'm going to end up with an SD master so how do I deal with all of this best?

Generally speaking, doing all your post in the highest resolution
and exporting down to the deliverable resolution is the way to go.
However, you have made it abundantly clear that this project will
be SD output, that some of your footage is SD home movies, and
that it will never be broadcast, so what the heck. Edit it in SD.
Set up your FCP sequence for good old DV NTSC. Bring in the
beautiful DVCPROHD footage, and let FCP convert it to SD,
which will require rendering those portions of the timeline.
Since the HD stuff has a different aspect ratio, you'll have to
decide how to crop it, using the motion tab.
Doing it this way will give you the option of changing the crop
if that suits the purposes of the edit. You could add zooms or
pans that will take advantage of the higher resolution
before it's downrezed.

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