Best Quality for .avi movies in iMovie HD?

Hello:
I recently had a number of old 8mm and Super8 movies converted to .avi files. The quality is pretty good and I want to create some DVD movies and I was want some suggestions on the best quality settings when exporting either to iDVD or Toast. I created a small sample movie and exported to a DV file with the highest settings and it plays well on my computer DVD player, but plays in slow motion on my home DVD player. Is it possible that my home DVD player is simply having a hard time decoding the DVD and it looks slow? Is there a way around this via the encoding settings?
Thanks,
cbrose

DVD's use MPEG-2 as their playback method so it doesn't matter about all of your conversions (AVI ->DV) as iDVD will convert it again to MPEG-2.
Toast and iMovie do the same thing but iMovie can't convert to MPEG-2.
DV Stream (.dv) is the format used in iMovie and it allows editing. MPEG-2 is solely a playback method and it doesn't allow editing (without converting first).
If your .avi files play properly in QuickTime you can import them into iMovie (converts to DV Stream) edit and add and then send to iDVD (converts to MPEG-2).
If they don't need any editing in iMovie your can just bring them into iDVD, or Toast, (they convert) and then burn the DVD (converted again to MPEG-2).
Try a new "home DVD" box. There is probably something wrong with yours. About $35.

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