What the best format for compression to DVD

I have a 18.91gb .mov file that I made of FCP and I want to compress it with out losing to mush quality, to be able to fit on to a DVD.
So my question is which of the compression settings should I pick to start of with.
Thanks
Message was edited by: Jon 2050

Compressor is doing a HD to SD conversion in addition to creating a MPG-2 file.
I have had video turn out wonderful using this work flow and other times I have not.
In worst case scenarios I have ended up doing the SD conversion in FC and then creating the MPG-2 from the SD FC export.
If you have problems or are not happy with the final compression you may want to do a test on a problem scene with the above work flow and see if you get better results. Whenever I have had compressor issues this has solved it.

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