Block Sections in movie after burning

After I burn a movie I put it in to watch and during faster sequences it gets all blocky. Here's what I've tried:
I've done a test on the burner
Burned it to the HD and it did looked the same way
It looks fine when I watch it in QuickTime before I burn
Changed the Performance Setting to the Quality Setting
Exporting it from Final Cut Pro 3 in many differnet formats
Tried it in Widescreen and 4:3
Played it in different DVD players
All this and nothing seems to work. I'm all out of ideas. Could someone please help??? Thanks

Exporting it from Final Cut Pro 3 in many differnet formats
Take a look at this:
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?path=iDVD/6.0/en/22.html
Suggest you create a disc image and then burn the DVD. File/Save As Disc Image...
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=164927
This will isolate any encoding/burning issues you may encounter. Once the disc image is created, double-click the .img and burn the virtual disc that should appear on your desktop, using Toast to burn the DVD. Disk Utility to burn the .img file. Usually, you can select a burning speed in Disk Utility.
There are variations to this process based on which OS X you are using...
Open Disk Utility (in Utilities folder in Applications folder), click on the virtual disc (maybe the .img) in the left-hand window. Click the Burn icon. A new window should drop down and your SuperDrive tray will open after clicking the Burn icon. Insert a recordable DVD. (Verbatim DVD-R preferred by me.) Click the Close button. Wait. Select a burn speed. If you hold your mouse cursor over the pop-up it says: "Select a slower speed to work around burn failures," so select 4x or slower for best results. Then click the Burn button.
-->If the virtual disk selection won't allow you to click the Burn icon, use the .img file instead. This may have changed in 10.3.9 and did change in Tiger.
Also, you can use DVD Player to play the virtual disk to check your iDVD project before burning to DVD. Launch DVD Player. File/Open VIDEO_TS (Open DVD Media... in Player 4.6). Find the VIDEO_TS folder and open that. (The audio folder is for DVD-Audio disks.)
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=93006

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