Most elementary question abt fcp and compressor

what i need to do in order to transfer my video work (from fcp) to dvd maintaning the SAME video quality? pls, at least one or two procedures to suggest, obviously the best ones.

The procedure you are asking about in the way you asked is called archiving.
Namely, saving a copy of your edited work from FCP on to a DVD Data disc as storage media.
Is that in fact what you want or are you asking about making the best quality DVD Video with the resources you have?
you can not do as you ask in any DVD authoring application including DVDSP or iDVD as the Quicktime video file will be compressed resulting a big loss in quality. This loss however is acceptable for most end viewers to watch.
If you want to make a DVD Video, then export your finished edit from FCP as a self contained QT movie, import that into iDVD or if using DVDSP import into compressor to make an M2V file then import that into DVDSP
thats the basics, I suggest doing the tutorials in either application to find out the details
G

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