I have a few problems with this method:
1. My 3-4 minutes video still takes about 45min – 1hr to export.
2. It’s not anamorphic 16:9 anymore, it’s more 3:2- whatever DV ratio.
3. The color is way off from what I edited.
Other than that, it helps a lot to just burn it low quality on SD-DVD. It tried to export my video on current setting, and it was choppy and the DVDSP for some reason keep quiting when I put the full HDV QT export.