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Several of you wrote emails in response to my article on burning Final Cut sequences to DVD.  Thank you!  A few responses were particularly helpful, and their authors were kind enough to let me share them here.

Eric Mittan writes:

"You might also do a tutorial for getting out a REALLY "quick and dirty" DVD that doesn't even have a menu.  Here at the TV station, we're often throwing little videos to DVD, under 5 minutes even, for viewers or story subjects that want a copy of their piece.  Since I'm Chief Editor AND the IT guy, I went to all the editing stations and changed the preferences for bitrate in DVD studio pro to be pretty high by default, and then printed a copy of these instructions for all our editors and photographers:

A friend of mine asked me the best way to get his Final Cut sequence on a DVD - and I was surprised to see that we didn't have a GeniusDV tutorial for that!  So here goes:

The textbook "easiest way," of course, is to export your sequence as a Quicktime movie, then drag the Quicktime movie into iDVD.  But that process degrades the quality of your video -- and it wastes the excellent tools that come with Final Cut Studio.

The "right way" doesn't take much more effort -- read on for a step-by-step!