How to make better quality DVDs

Hi. I bought a Sony HDR-HC1 High Def 1080i camera. The quality from the camera is excellent. However, when I make a widescreen 16:9 format (not HD) DVD using iMovie and iDVD the resulting quality on my widescreen TV *****. It looks like I used a cheap camera and it's overcompressed with artifacts and blocky-pixels. The DVD is 60 min. long. I chose the Best Quality option in iDVD. Isn't there any way to get better compression out of iDVD? I don't mind letting my computer churn away for 48hrs. It beats a crappy looking DVD any day. I mean, maybe most folks would be happy with the result but I think it's ridiculous. Can I use Compressor and then import that into iDVD? Help!!!!

Can Toast 6 work with MPEG-2?
Only in the form of an already authored and encoded Video_TS folder. Otherwise, what it does is encode .dv or .mov
I don't want the million
choices that Compressor gives you (I don't even know
what to pick), and I don't want a simple fixed
setting either.
I'm guessing that this is a stand-alone. Got a url? My compressor is at metakine . c m.
Read http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=546615&tstart=0 and you'll find I'm thrashing around in the same small box. I think they're trying to get us to spring for $900 worth.
mrbl

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