Avi "jumps" after encoded and burned on iDVD

I made a project in imovie, and put an avi in it, along with digital pictures and a song underneath the pictures part. Everything works great when I burn it with iDVD EXCEPT: the avi looks good on the computer before it is in encoded, but afterwards and when it is played on a regular dvd player, on a sd tv, the "pans" skip..... also, I can play sd on my regular dvd player with my hd tv, and they just look smaller, or stretched. This literally makes squawks and "shshshsh" and won't show the menu on the tv....
what did I do wrong?

Hello susilv,
AVI is a container that can hold a lot of different codecs ... some of them will be digested well by iDVD, others might present problems. To find out what codec your video file uses, open it with QT Player and hit Cmd-I to bring up the Inspector window.
Another thing that is important is the frame rate: if the original video doesn't match your output settings (25 fps for PAL/29.97 for NTSC), you'll find exactly the problem you reported - and my guess is that you converted PAL to NTSC in iDVD, which doesn't give you good results.
+.... also, I can play sd on my regular dvd player with my hd tv, and they just look smaller, or stretched+
SD video is roughly a quarter of the size of HD video ...
+This literally makes squawks and "shshshsh" and won't show the menu on the tv....+
Sorry, but you'll need to elaborate a tiny bit ...
mish

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