Re: how to get it from FCP to DVD under 3 days render?

Have you simply tried one of the presets "as is" before adjusting the settings? Honestly Kent, trying to extract extra quality out of MPEG2 encoding might sound like a great way to go, but unless you know exactly what you're doing, you can just as easily create grief instead of curing it. You really should not require frame controls or deinterlacing on to make your titles acceptable on a DVD. I suspect you're simply masking one symptom while creating others.

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