How do I prevent losing quality from HDV FCP 5 project to SD DVD?

Sorry to ask, but I'm new to DVDSP and not sure if I'm going about it the right way. I'm planning on using compressor to export my 30 minute HDV video from FCP 5, but wasn't sure of the best possible setting so I lose the least quality when making a SD DVD. I understand that loss will obviously occur, but does anyone have a preferred method?
Thanks in advance.
dual 1.25 G4 MDD 1gb superdrive   Mac OS X (10.4.7)  

Export the movie as uncompressed (not HDV) from FCP prior to encoding, it provided me with alot better results then exporting HDV then encoding that in any of my encoders I tried.
Also if you scale the exported movie in QT To 1/2 size then exported that it seemed to help speed up enncoding time/quality. (Scaling under 1/2 in QT gave poor results)
And take a look here where there are some details discussions of using HDV
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=2744312&#2744312
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=2679204&#2679204

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