How to preserve 60i smooth motion?

Hi all!
I've been using FCE to edit, and then making iDVD to make disks. When I was shooting with a DV camera, this worked fine, and I got smooth 60i motion when I played the DVDs on a TV.
But now I have an AVCHD camera, and when I export, iDVD turns the 1080/60i into 480/30p. I understand that some people like the 30p look as being more cinematic, but my event coverage has lots of camera pans, and the 30p motion makes these look much worse then 60i. I know that the high motion is still there when I export 1080i from FCE, because I can play the file and see the "mouse teeth", but I can't find any way to turn 1080i into 480i without loosing the smooth high motion that is present in the original. Any ideas?
BTW, I noticed with disapointment that even with the newest iMacs, 60i footage is still presented to the viewer as 30p, unless I used Final Cut Pro to turn it into 60p. My Elgato TV tuner can make 60p happen on my current screen from 60i broadcasts, so why does this still not work? Is there a setting somewhere?

The workflow in your first paragraph sounds fine. I'm guessing that "quick AIC way" means exporting a reference movie. But regardless, it sounds like that part of the process is working as it should. (Pursuing the DV idea further doesn't strike me as likely to be fruitful. The advantage of exporting as Quick Time Movie, current settings, is that it avoids the additional compression step that QT Conversion always performs.)
Although I don't use this workflow, many people report good results by dropping their HD sequence into an SD sequence and export that as a QT movie to bring into Compressor, where they create MPEG files before authoring DVDs. You might try that approach (of course skipping the Compressor step) and bring the SD movie into iDVD to see whether you get better results.
If that leads to another dead end, you might consider investing in software that will give you more control than you have now with FCE and iDVD.
Good luck.
Russ

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