What is the best format/codec to save a video edited in FCP7 for a DVD??

I am trying to make a DVD from a video I've edited in FCP7. I am not using the correct codec and, I think, making the file too big.
The details of my set up are in these two screen shots.
This has happend in the past but I do not know what it is I am doing wrong!

The article is designed to give people the safest route to encoding.  I did at a cavet to it to say that it's okay to export out of Final Cut Pro at 24p, as long as, you understand the what you are doing.  The downside is that when someone who doesn't know what they are doing tries to export a mixed timeline of 24p and interlaced material as 24p.  This causes the interlaced material to be stripped away before it gets encoded.  Using a 29.97 frame rate always works and that's why I wrote the article the way I did.
I know that you would know how to encode 24p correctly, but there's a lot of people out there that don't understand frame rates.  It's one of the biggest gotchas when handling film based material.
Almost all of commercial film based DVDs were encode from HD tape masters.  Tape requires 3:2 pull down to be added in.  That causes problems because problems for the encoders as it tries to detect and remove 3:2 pull down.  If the studio sends over a Quicktime file or digital file master that has 24p frame rate, then it's possible to get a true 24p encode.  However, almost all of the DVDs that have been shipped since the begining of the format are a 3:2 pull down mix mesh. 

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