[Ryan Leith]

it is a blu-ray disk that I am trying to burn, but i would also love any knowledge on burning a SD DVD.

I am just looking for the BEST way to do this process. I can promise you that I am not an idiot when it comes to this, I am just trying to make sure that I get the best results. I have done what is usually done, and it turns out looking bad.

I tried the original presets for bit rate, but it looked terrible. I have tried both mpeg-2 and h.264 and none of them look that great. The problem lies in the actual playing of the DVD in the theater.

I am thinking about maybe just playing the movie off of a harddrive. Any thoughts on that, and what compression from FCP would be best?