How to export HD footage to play on a standard DVD player

Hi
Sorry, I am very new, but very excited about learning more about cs4. I am thinking to buy a HD video camera. Does CS4 easily convert HD footage at the dvd burning stage to then play on a regular dvd player. I understand it will mean downgrading to SD - but I am thinking about all the people I will give dvds to for them to watch. Or should I just get a camera that films in both HD and SD

Let me give you an optimum example of my last HD to DVD timing. The video was shot with two cameras under good lighting conditions and there was very little color correction required and only a few special effects. The finished video was 39 minutes (1.35 GB). The AME encoding time on my 8 core (2.33 GHz) with a really fast RAID 0 array was 36 minutes 48 seconds! If you start adding in a lot of color correction and lots of other effects encoding time does increase significantly. I am convinced that the DVD was of much better quality that had we shot it in SD. I have had problem shoots (lighting) that required vast amount of color correction etc. that required many hours of MPEG2 DVD encoding.
Incidentlly I do not export from Premiere (which uses the new copy of the Project on your C:drive), I close Premiere and open AME and use the much faster true project file on my RAID 0 array.

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Reads DVD:          Yes
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