Choppy footage on DVD, after perfect burn in iDVD

Hello,
I've just got done with a documentary on my local Parkour Group. I've finished Editing the piece and I have exported it into iDVD, here comes the problems, after burning the video at a burn speed of 1x with Professional Quality, my video on DVD turns out at some parts choppy. During these times, the video is being reversed with slow motion and desaturation. I've tried everything that may solve this problem but each DVD has the same verdict. These parts where they are choppy appear not to be in the preview in both iDVD and FCE, I had a friend download it to his computer (windows) and it played perfectly until he played it in his player for his TV, this hasn't happened to me before, my first video turned out great using the same technique.
I am using:
DVD-R (TDK)
MacBook Pro '09 version
Final Cut Express HD
I hope this can be solved quickly, I want to begin my next project! Help is greatly appreciated.
-Ryan

I have had the same problem when burning videos made with iMovie, videos play via iTunes and Quicktime just fine on the computer; but when i burn to disc (using various brands and types) the video comes out very choppy, as if it is skipping frames. The videos i'm doing are of lacrosse games so the choppyness is very obvious. I have only had problems burning these videos on my iMac since the release of Ilife'09. Videos from the previous season were not choppy at all. In the past version of iDvD I had to do something to encode the videos before they could be burned to disc by iDvD, but this step seems to be skipped now. I've found (for movies from iMovie) that you lose the choppyness if you burn it directly to the disc instead of going through iDvD... I guess I'm saying that I have no solution, but the same problem that you do.... you are not alone... Anyone with suggestions?

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