Burned dvd skips

hi there - am waiting on final cut universal to arrive and am at the moment just needing to put a 5 min music video that a friend did from imovie onto DVD
have managed to burn it fine but playing on a dvd player it skips like mad although it plays fine on the imac. on 3 dvd players ive tested it it skips like crazy but on the imac it does skip but not nearly as bad - its more like a second pause
my friend used a few slow mo's etc but basically needing to find a remedy for this - imovie suggests putting quality to standard but thus far no joy.
anyone out there have any suggestions - i downloaded deinterlacer 2.7 but have no real scooby as to using it - have to say imovie is a real pain in the backside!!!!
matty

Hi matty,
welcome to this board
some dvd players don't "like" fast burned dvds and not every brand of dvd-r...
burn it again (if your Mac doesn't accept it, you have to anyhow), choose a different brand and don't use dvd-r marked "16x" or higher.....
in case you own Toast, create an .img with iDVD, use Toast to burn and set drive speed to 1x or 2x ....

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