Artifacts during motion.

I'm in final week before delivery on an 80minute piece. I am getting artifacts in fast motion (particularly white) areas of the production when I go to mpeg2 for the DVD.
final output is for DVD PAL 16:9 Anamorphic for letterboxed 4:3.
Input: includes
Mpeg2 footage converted to DV files(via mpeg2stream) from a HardDrive SD
DV footage imported as QuickTime from a 3.2 PAL 3ccd cam
and Stills in the form of jpgs and tiffs.
I am outputting through Compressor CBR at a preset bit-rate with all of the choices in place, I have added compression markers to the difficult places.. the problem doesn't seem to be getting better.
I have even gone back to source footage but somewhere in my pipeline these clips are running into problems.
Any advise?

Try using the 3 way Color Corrector and bringing down your whites to 90%. Also check the footage on the scopes to make sure it's legal.
Elements that are of out of luma and/or chroma safe limits can cause fits in encoding and playback.
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"issue: artifacting in motion when building/exporting multi layer projects with video with fx's and masks applied (about 13 layers with 1 mask and primatte rt turned on causes artifacting). Link to samples of .motn and .mov below.
background: this is occurring on a clean install of os x 10.5 as well as a clean install of 10.4. this computer has spent a week at the apple store getting run through hardware diagnostics and came back with a clean bill of health. after reinstalling and building fresh projects the same artifacting immediately reoccurred.
other notes: I have run the OpenGL monitor while playing back and exporting in motion and artifacts always coincide with a huge spike in the "Texture Page Off Data (Non-AGP)" parameter, there are also lessor spikes in "CPU wait for GPU" but those are not always indicative of an artifact.
I also have a nvidia 7300 gpu installed and it handles any and all motn files flawlessly (albeit soooo much slower)
I have had similar issues since purchasing this system over a year ago.
I would sincerely appreciate any kind of communication other than "reinstall your system and FCS 2"
below is a link to a motn project and video asset, as well as a openGL screencap and exported movie with artifacts
http://file.meyersproduction.com/motion/3.16.08/"

Personally, I think the problem is related to Leopard. I too have been getting artefacts in Motion 3 projects with masking since installing Leopard. Like Austin's experience, the artefacts do not appear at first after launching Motion but emerge fairly fast.
Deleting the mask(s) gets rid of the problem but I kind of wanted to be able to use masks in my Motion projects! I had been doing so without problems in Motion 3 but with OS X Tiger. In case you were wondering, I have also reinstalled Motion and Final Cut since installing Leopard following advice on other threads.
I don't think the issue is hardware-related, though I appreciate that my projects are very demanding for the system I have. Other more demanding projects in other applications (including Final Cut Pro) may render slowly but don't result in artefacts.
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