I film on a Sony AVCHD camcorder (CX550E) and need to create the highest quality output DVDs possible with a fairly basic menu usually comprising 7-15 chapters. Can I simply rely on the 'DVD Authoring Works' encoder or do I need to use TMPGEnc Xpress encoding package first to ensure really high quality encode of the AVCHD clips from the camera? Are the encoders the same? Do they allow multi pass VBR encoding? The final DVD needs to be as close to 'HD' as it can be bearing in mind that it's SD on a DVD!
Phil