Best sequence preset for short film with all stills?

Hi,
I'm working on a short film documentary, its all stills, I usually work with video - first time doing all stills. Project looks great in my time line, but when rendering for standard DVD I'm getting lots of odd pixilation in cross fades and fades to black. Not a lot of time to keep testing the hundreds of sequence and render settings. Perhaps not the best choice but I used AVCHD 1080p30.
Anyone know which of the sequence presets would be best for a film with all stills?
Thanks!

Still a little unsure about the render twice. I did use a AVCHD sequence/timeline, but I am exporting using media encoder to MPEG2. I'm guessing by render twice you mean rendering in the timeline after you bring in stills and apply motion, then rendering again when exporting for MPEG2? If thats your meaning, not sure how you get around rendering twice - I mean the motions and timeline still needs to be rendered, or are you saying leave it all to be rendered at the export process?
I can see how the terminology could be confusing. When you Export>Media from Pr, that's the same as Exporting and Rendering (esp. if your output format is different from your Preview format). One way to look at it is that you're rendering a complete single file to a single codec.
Rendering is also a term used to "build" Previews in Pr. That's where your source media - no matter what codec was used - is rendered into the Preview format you selected in your Sequence Settings.
You have options when making a DVD. You can export (while simultaneously rendering) to an intermediate file, such as ProRes for Mac people, and then make your DVD from that. That is "rendering twice." OR... you can simply Export to an MPEG2 from Pr, and make your DVD from that, which would be "rendering once."
Based on what you just wrote, it sounds like you're only "rendering once." But if so, I'm baffled why your fades are blocky.
Maybe it would help if you described how you're making your DVD. I wonder if you're re-transcoding your MPEG2 when you get to Encore (or whatever you're using to make DVDs). That could explain it.

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