Please recommend workflow to re-author DVD at lowere quality setting.

I have to re-author a DVD. Currently its written at 60 minute quality but I'd like it at 120 min. quality to squeeze more content on. I have FCS2 and Mpeg streamclip available. Can someone recommend the simplest way to do it?
Thanks.

So if I fully understand what you want to achieve you want to take the existing "footage" (that you only have as MPEG streams/AC3) and then add some more content.
What I would do is use something like MPEG Streamclip to demux the VOBs of your existing project so you get back separate m2v and AC3 files.
Then create your new Stdio Pro project. Import this demux stream in and the new streams you want to add and create your new project. Build that project to your hard drive so you end up with a VIDEO_TS folder and use DVD2OneX (which I think is a paid for software) to "squeeze" that existing VIDEO_TS to a new smaller VIDEO_TS which will fit on to the DVD-R that you want to fit it on to.
Use Toast to burn the subsequent squeezed project.
If you don't have Toast then save your existing new project as say "New Project Squeezed Version", use MPEG Streamclip to demux the newly squeezed VOBs from the squeezed VIDEO_TS back to m2v/AC3 files and then replace the streams in your "New Project Squeezed Version" with these newly squeezed streams and burn that to DVD from Studio Pro
DVD2OneX makes a very good job of re-compressing MPEGs we have found
Hope that helps and makes sense

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Hi,
Here is the background on my project.
I decided to work at 1920x1080 resolution because sometime this year we want to start going blu-ray. I have some text effects etc that I made in AE and also put some 720x480 videos in that I scaled up.
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Drag your HD comp into the new comp and resize to fit.
Render the comp to a lossless Quicktime file. The "Lossless" Output Module is a reasonable choice: it will output a lossless Quicktime Animation file.
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If you still see blockiness/banding, try adding a small amount of noise to the gradient in AE before rendering.

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