Exporting from FCP 7 to DVD SP without Compressor

Compressor is the encoder of choice on the Mac without paying thousands of $

An alternative encoder, and the only one I use is Bitvice: Innobits Encoder BitVice

You could, send a QT straight into DVDSP, but this does not encode at anywhere near the efficiency, functionality and performance that a specialist encoder can do.

What Gary said. You'd be kind of short-changing yourself – putting the necessary effort into DVDSP authoring and not using Compressor as the encoder. But if all you wanted was a good quality disk and didn't care about menu complexities, using the Share function in FCP would bypass Compressor and give you pretty nice quality with a very basic menu.

Russ

in settings choose > DVD best quality 90mins

or the other durations if over 90

choose 16:9 or 4x3 as appropriate

you need both Dolby 2 for sound and MPEG2 for video

you only include markers if you have set them up in FCP:

chapter markes to link to marker points in DVDSP and comp markers to set an i point for advanced compression settings