Why is image distorted on DVD

Being new to Macs I am experimenting with iMovie bringing together movie clips and stills to make a movie to burn to DVD using iDVD. When I view the result in the iDVD preview it looks ok but when I burn the DVD, insert it in the DVD player and view on TV some of the pictures look distorted. In particular people in the portrait view stills look short and fat. Also the movies are shot at 640x480 so what format should I use. If I set the projest to wide screen as our TV is it seems the movie is spread to fill the width by cropping off the height. Should I set the screen to standard?

Follow this workflow to help ensure the best quality final product:
Once you have the project as you want it save it as a disk image via the File ➙ Save as Disk Image menu option. This will separate the encoding process from the burn process.
To check the encoding mount the disk image and launch DVD Player and play it. If it plays OK with DVD Player the encoding was good.
Then burn to disk with Disk Utility or Toast at the slowest speed available (2x-4x) to assure the best burn quality. Always use top quality media: Verbatim, Maxell or Taiyo Yuden DVD-R are the most recommended in these forums.
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