Best quality slideshow in iDVD

Hi,
I made a slideshow in iPhoto, imported it into iMovie, added music and exported the slideshow to "Media Browser." The slideshow is about 4 minutes long. When I play the slideshow in iPhoto or iMovie the pictures and text are crystal clear but after I import them into iDVD and burn them to disc, the text is very hard to read and some of the photos seems to vibrate. Also the overall quality of the photos is not very good. The sounds is fantastic so I am happy with that. When I exported from iMovie I used the largest possible setting (I tried it once with the 2nd largest and it was much worse). In iDVD I tried Best Performance once and also Professional (the latter was better). I am using Verbatim DVD-R discs. I have plenty of free memory on my computer. I made a similar project once before, using the same camera to shoot the photos, and it turned out great. The only difference that I can think of between the projects is that I didn't use a theme in the first project.
I'm wondering how I can improve the quality of the photos in the finished dvd.
Thanks for any ideas!

DVDs are just standard definition devices - for NTSC, think 640x480 square pixels.
For best quality in NTSC use 720x540 pixels for 4:3 video and 854x480 for widescreen. Using more pixels does NOT produce a better DVD!

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    • Start a new User-Account and log into this and iMovie get's faster too - if a project is in a hurry
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    • OS X 10.4.x/QT 7.1.x/iLife 6
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