Please review settings for maximum output quality

I’m looking for the highest possible quality on DVD SP standard definition DVD. My media is approx 25 minutes, 720 X 480 NTSC , 4:3 aspect ratio I’m working with FCP 5.1.4. So far from skimming the forums I would guess the best thing to do is export into compressor using these settings,
Name: MPEG-2 6.2Mbps 2-pass 4:3
Description: Fits up to 90 minutes of video with Dolby Digital audio at 192 Kbps or 60 minutes with AIFF audio on a DVD-5
File Extension: m2v
Estimated file size: 1.29 GB
Type: MPEG-2 video elementary stream
Video Encoder
Format: M2V
Width: 720
Height: 480
Pixel aspect ratio: NTSC CCIR 601/DV
Crop: None
Frame rate: 29.97
Frame Controls: Off
Aspect ratio: 4:3
Field dominance: Bottom first
Average data rate: 6.2 (Mbps)
2 Pass VBR enabled
Maximum data rate: 7.7 (Mbps)
High quality
Best motion estimation
Closed GOP Size: 15, Structure: IBBP
DVD Studio Pro meta-data enabled
but only import Dolby into the DVDSP project. On the one I just burned I had to drag the audio to both A1 and A2 on the track should I have to? My real question is this the best way and best settings to maximize the quality of my finished project?

That's the way -- you're doing it. the alternative would be to export a quicktime movie from FCP and drag taht from the finder to Compressor.
The difference is that FCP is busy during encoding with the first option, and you can use fCP while encoding a QT movie. The quality difference comes from the fact that encoding directly from FCP will make use of an uncompressed image buffer that re-processes all your rendered material as uncompressed, which can help to avoid embeddeing DV compression artifacts in your source material.
Hope this helps -
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