Blurred photos in slideshow

Hi,
Every 3 months of so I create a project in iDVD with my latest movies and photos. I create the movies in iMovie and use the slideshow function in iDVD for my photos. I upgraded to iLife'11 in December.
The photos look fine in iDVD, but when I have burnt to DVD the last 2 projects (so the one I created in October and the one I created today) the slideshow has appeared to be blurry. Looking at some of the previous threads with similar issues:
- I have turned off the transitions
- I have burnt to Double Layer
- I have checked that I am burning in Professional quality
- I have tried burning it with less than 100 photos
(Video mode is PAL)
None of this has worked (though the change to double layer did improve the quality a touch).
What confuses me most is that I didn't have any problems with the 3 previous DVDs I burnt earlier last year and I haven't changed any settings.
Any suggestions? Happy to provide more details.
Evie
Message was edited by: Elthorne

And all important as videos and photos are of my new baby daughter for her Great Grannie!
What could be more important?
There are many ways to produce slide shows using iPhoto, iMovie or iDVD and some limit the number of photos you can use (iDVD has a 99 chapter (slide) limitation).
If what you want is what I want, namely to be able to use high resolution photos (even 300 dpi tiff files), to pan and zoom individual photos, use a variety of transitions, to add and edit music or commentary, place text exactly where you want it, and to end up with a DVD that looks good on both your Mac and a TV - in other words end up with and end result that does not look like an old fashioned slide show from a projector - you may be interested in how I do it. You don't have to do it my way, but the following may be food for thought!
Firstly you need proper software to assemble the photos, decide on the duration of each, the transitions you want to use, and how to pan and zoom individual photos where required, and add proper titles. For this I use Photo to Movie. You can read about what it can do on their website:
http://www.lqgraphics.com/software/phototomovie.php
(Other users here use the alternative FotoMagico: http://www.boinx.com/fotomagico/homevspro/ which you may prefer - I have no experience with it.)
Neither of these are freeware, but are worth the investment if you are going to do a lot of slide shows. Read about them in detail, then decide which one you feel is best suited to your needs.
Once you have timed and arranged and manipulated the photos to your liking in Photo to Movie, it exports the file to iMovie 6 as a DV stream. You can add music in Photo to Movie, but I prefer doing this in iMovie where it is easier to edit. You can now further edit the slide show in iMovie just as you would a movie, including adding other video clips, then send it to iDVD 7, or Toast, for burning.
You will be pleasantly surprised at how professional the results can be!
To simply create a slide show in iDVD 8 onwards from images in iPhoto or stored in other places on your hard disk or a connected server, look here:
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1089

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