These are VERY helpful forums with NO flamers … unlike the Adobe forums, thanks all!
I shot in HD but am producing a SD DVD.
For cost purposes I am keeping it a 1 DVD set.
My brother, who is also a videographer, came by and did EXACTLY what Jeff suggested… use 2-pass VBR encoding with the average data rate set to “3”, etc…
The quality is, of course, still not as good as the original, but at least 5 times better than the first DVD I made.
THanks all, these forums really are helpful!