What is the best export setting for burning a dvd?

I am trying to export my senior thesis to a DVD, I've never burnt a DVD before and am using Adobe Premiere cs6.
I used a Canon7D 24fps to film and want the best quality of video and audio possible.
ALSO, after I've exported it, are there any other steps I need to take before burning it to a DVD?
Please help!

The best quality will be using an x264 encoder in CQ mode to create a Blu-ray.
Next best is exporting using an H.264 Blu-ray preset for creating a Blu-ray.
After that, exporting a lossless file for MPEG 2 conversion using the free HC Encoder using CQ mode, which will end up on a DVD.
Last in the quality lineup, export using an MPEG2-DVD preset, changing the Min, Target and Max bitrates to 5, 7 and 9 respectively.
Avoid Dynamic Link.

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I have tried both export and save-as. Neither has done a good job.
The "Export" option re-compresses the data while the "Save As..." option only places the original data in an MOV file container. So if this output is "bad, bad, bad," then I suspect your source file(s) are not of high quality to begin with. (This seems to be confirmed by the very low audio sampling rate which implies the video data rate was probably also low to conserve file storage space.)
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