How to convert HDV-1080i captured video to burn on IDVD ?

Hi Gang,
I recently bought a Canon XL H1 HDV camcorder and love to shoot HD-1080i on miniDV. I capture the video on IMovie HD using HDV-1080i. It is beautiful.
I need to convert this format using the best compression so I can burn the video on a IDVD. I realize I will loose some resolution but until Blu-Ray is available, I have no other alternatives. Canon XL H1 shoots uncompressed audio and video and is amazing. I have used H264 in the past with 720p but I'm not sure using 1080i. Can any of you wonderful folks walk me through the best steps to do this? Thankyou, Joe Ray
ps: I own Final Cut Pro 5.1 but can't learn it til late August2006.

well right now since your recording the high def to a tape, you're shooting HDV, which is compressed HD. iMovie imports that and converts it to the apple intermediate format.....(no compression, just a different format imovie works with). Just do the editing in imovie and send it to idvd and choose best quality in the projects pane in the idvd preferences. that's all you can do.
(imovie does the editing, and idvd does the converting to MPEG 2 which is what dvd players read).

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