Action footage edited in FCP Express is choppy in iDVD 6.0.3

Hello...
I have edited action footage (featuring football) in Final Cut Express and the exported it as a .mov file. When I played the .mov file from Quicktime, it plays great. But, when I imported my movie into iDVD, burned it to a DVD+R, and watched it on a regular DVD player, the action footage was very choppy. Sometimes there were "ghost trails" behind the football players' running shots, and at certain parts the movement seemed sped up and almost like a "cartoony speed" - if that makes any sense.
So, I tried a few more times with the same bad results
Does anyone know how to go about fixing this problem? Thank you so much in advance for your feedback!
...Rae

Rae,
Your problem may just be the result of MPG-2 compression artifacts. Rather than making your 'burn' from iDVD to writable media, 'burn' to a disk image file (an option under File in iDVD). This will create a version of your final DVD on your desktop. Use Apple's DVD Player application to play the image file on your computer. If you still see the ghosting/choppy playback then you have a content problem. If the disk image plays with no problems, then you had a problem writing the digital data to the writable DVD media that led to a lot of burn errors. Use Apple's Disk Utility to burn the image to writable media. See Burning a disk image file on a CD or DVD in Mac OS X at http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=93006
Using good quality media (Verbatim or Maxell) and make the burn at 4x or slower. Disk Utility allows you to adjust the burn rate, while iDVD doesn't.
F Shippey

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