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I have created some slideshows in Aperture and one in FCP, exported them in PAL 720x576 progressive 16:9, frame rate 25.
When I preview them in Quick time on my computer monitor they look great. As soon as I import them in DVD SP and stimulate, or buid/format to preview, all the images loose considerable quality with the graphics and text pixelated...
My settings in DVD SP are: SD DVD, PAL, encoding: MPEG-2 SD 16:9
What's weird is that the dvd menu appears pixelated too. Is it just a matter of monitor? From previous tests, I know for a fact that the Aperture slideshows do loose quality, when the dvd is tested on a tv screen.
I spoke to an Aperture pro today from Apple service and he told me that since the exported movies look good on quicktime, it should be a DVD SP issue.
Any suggestions on what settings could be wrong, or anything I can improve to get better results for my slideshow DVD? (unfortunately I couldn't contact an DVD SP pro for that since they charge £80 per question if you're not covered! - apple care is not enough by the way...)
Can you help me please?

> exported them in PAL 720x576 progressive 16:9, frame rate 25. <
MPEG2 is an interlaced format, usually. Try exporting interlaced from Aperture and see what happens.
But a big part of the issue is the additional scaling your images are going through. 720x576 is going to get squished to a letterboxed format that, exlcuding the black bard top and bottom, is less than 350 horizontal lines. That's only 50% of your rez out of Aperture. You'd be far better off providing a more accurate movie out of Aperture that requires less scaling in the encode to MPEG2.
I do such productions in FCP or Motion, using a timeline setting that corresponds to the finsihed product's needs. Export the rendered movie as self-contained, take that to DVDSP direclty or through Compressor to MPEG2.
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