Burned a disc with a QT from Final Cut, cross fades look terrible

Hello,
Burned a disc in iDVD 6 with a quicktime bounced from Final Cut. The quicktime itself, when played in quicktime, looks great and has nice crossfades throughout. When burned in iDVD to a disc and played on a television, the crossfades are not rendered, and they look terrible. Decolorized, pixelated, non-existent in some cases. Any ideas why? I'm burning in Toast 8 to see if I can duplicate the problem so as to isolate it as an iDVD or FCP problem. Any help is greatly appreciated.
Thank you!

Because the QT file isn't compressed while the iDVD file is. And in this case anyway, you prefer the compression offered via Toast instead of iDVD. Bear in mind that one-hour of DV material is roughly 13GB. iDVD (or Toast) compresses this to fit on a 4.3GB DVD. Google MPEG compression to learn more.
Mike

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