BmB said:

(DVD is a crummy format anyhow.)

BmB said:

MPEG-2 is ancient. It needs huge bitrates (and thus filesizes) to look anything decent, and still most DVD's I have are drowning in a sea of artifacts. Not only that, the whole telecine process is pretty much obsolete, as most playback systems can smoothly represent whatever framerate you feed them nowadays. One hears terrible things of NTSC judder and has witnessed the agony of PAL speedup oneself. And to add to the filesize is the fact that even with support for anamorphics DVD's feel the need to have hardcoded black bars.

BmB said:

Dunno, MPEG4 seems to be all the rage these days.

Sorry but you are talking complete rubbish here. If most of your DVD's are drowning in a sea of artefacts then you have a pretty crappy DVD player or they are not retail DVDs and DVD is not a crummy format at all. Most people who will watch a movie will do so on a DVD. The people who watch a movie via other methods are still a minority as are Blu-Rays. I can't believe that you moan about Mpeg2 having artefacts yet suggest MPEG4. And you are wrong on MPEG4 being all the rage because x264 is. MPEG4 looks like shit unless you use high bitrates. x264 however looks amazing. Compare a 2gb mpeg4 DVD rip to a 2gb x264 DVD rip and the difference is almost like the difference between VHS & DVD.

Timstuff, great to hear you have finished the colour correction. From the screengrabs its looking mighty nice.

For authoring the DVD you could use either Sony DVD Architect or DVDLab Pro. Both are pretty easy to use with DVD Architect having the edge on authoring features. There are demos available for both online so you can try each one out to see which one suits you the best first.