IMovie to iDVD or Final Cut Pro to DVD studio pro "Better output"

I recorded some family videos onto a computer with a WinTV pci board.
Converted the MPEG2 to DV/DVCPro NTSC on my Mac with MPEG stremeclip.
Used quicktime to divide the tapes/clips where we had switched recordings.
Now i was going to use final cut pro but i am starting to like imovie 09.
I want to take the clips and add simple fades mostly cross dissolve fade to black and just nothing something not noticeable. Then once I have combined the events reasonably. I want to put them onto DVD.
Say our christmas videos
One DVD with each year christmas event.
And one for someone's birthdays through the years.
If you need me to elaborate ill try harder.
So should I use Final Cut Pro then have DVD studio make the DVDs Or iMovie 09 and iDVD 09. Which would have the best looking output.
Oh by the way how can i remove the static feedback from the recordings I don't care which application i need tell me which one.
If someone needs an example of the main sound i don't want ill post one.
Note: I will be posting this in the Final Cut Pro forms as well.

Since you have both, you should run both and see if you see a difference.
I would expect that a $1,400 product would outperform a $20 product (= 1/4 of iLife).
But the question is, How much better? and is it worth the extra effort to you? Only you can decide that.
Another option for you to consider is you can edit in iMovie and export your project to Final Cut Pro in XML. Might be the best of both worlds.
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