Procedure for achiving best quality converting 8mm to dvd

In advance I understand the crap in crap out thoery. Having said that I am looking to enhance old videos with FCP X. My first question is should I convert the project to progressive, thinking more lines are better? When I do it bloats the file size and appears to blur the clip. I'm trying to keep a natural feel while improving the look as best as I can. Are there basic steps I should follow to active this?
Thank you for your time
Rick Pratt

Hi Alex,
no conversion needed:
iM works with dv, a dvd has finally mpeg2 - any "inbetween conversion" means loss of quality!
in case, you have many stills in your project, many recommend here NOT to use the export button in iM, but simply drag'n drop the project (that file with a star) onto an open iDVD project, so rendering is done by iDVD......

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