Set your ins and outs, export as quicktime using dv/dv ntsc, and uncheck reinterlace chroma, set it to the highest quality, and you should have a decent looking piece of video (This is if you aren’t running uncompressed video). Bring it into final cut pro and you shouldn’t have to render. If going to dvd just do a straight high qualitty mpeg2 conversion, it will retain all data from the .VOB file. This is pretty much just based on trial and error. seems to work well though.