Thanks Ben and although it's all on PC and Premier etc, there were a few snippets of info that might help me.

I don't know if this will help you but when I shoot for DVD DVD, which is still quite frequent, I shoot HD at the native resolution of the target destination (60i for NTSC, 50i for PAL), then de-interlace using Vegas and render the MPEG2 output in PAL or NTSC widescreen 16:9 aspect ratio, 6Mbps average bit rate.

The big advantage with shooting HD is that you can make NTSC or PAL crops without losing quality, effectively reframing or enlarging the picture.

Here is a solution for PAL with presets @
Apple - Downloads - Final Cut Studio - 5DtoFCP

and it looks like Premier CS5 will be supporting the Canon H.264 codec native

When I first got my 5DMK2 I wanted to make the best DVD from the HD footage using Windows and Sony Vegas...I jumped in on this thread here and P. Ford gave me a lot of help: http://www.dvinfo.net/forum/what-hap...quality-5.html

-Roy

Has anyone developed a solid FCP workflow for taking 5DII footage to DVD? I have struggled with this for a while now.

I simply convert the 25p HD files to PAL Avi 16:9 then drop onto the timeline. This makes it also easy to mix with original SD footage AVi files on the same timeline. Then when your project authoring is complete, just convert to Mpeg2 and burn to DVD. It produces very good quality DVDs.