IDVD and Compressor vs DVD SP

f I prepare a MPEG2 file with Compressor and add that video file to an i-DVD project, will the image quality be better than if I simpy use i-DVDs own internal encoding?
Will i-DVD recognize that the video file has ALREADY been encoded and NOT encode the MPEG 2 file again?
I am asking about using Compressor with iDVD because there is a template in iDVD my client would like to use, and the project is on a tight deadline. I don't want to have to created the interface from scratch in DVD Studio Pro
Thanks in advance for all input!

Pamela Glintenkamp wrote:
f I prepare a MPEG2 file with Compressor and add that video file to an i-DVD project, will the image quality be better than if I simpy use i-DVDs own internal encoding?
iDVD will not import m2vs from Compressor, not even the new iDVD (though it shows up in browser)
Will i-DVD recognize that the video file has ALREADY been encoded and NOT encode the MPEG 2 file again?
See above
I am asking about using Compressor with iDVD because there is a template in iDVD my client would like to use, and the project is on a tight deadline. I don't want to have to created the interface from scratch in DVD Studio Pro
You could try creating the project in iDVD and use a software like dvdafteredit(.com) to use the elements that way, if not mastering the software is a few hundred dollars.
Thanks in advance for all input!

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IDVD appears to produce better "hi-def to DVD" than DVDSP and Compressor.

For the last 4 years I have used DVDSP and Compressor to burn DVDs from my HDV and AVCHD/ProRes 422 projects but have always been plagued by the well known less than perfect results.
For some reason creating DVDs from HD material results in slightly lower quality than when using standard def media.
Artefacts such as double-lining and aliasing have been discussed at length in the forums and weird and wonderful time-consuming solutions such as the Bonsai technique have been proposed.
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