Compressor 2.0 blues

Hi,
Im just so frustrated - I recently installed Final Cut studio and now tried to output a little film on DVD and all I seem to get from compressor is pixels.
I`ve done another project a little while ago on Final Cut 4,0 and Compressor 1.0 and it looked just beautiful everybody was impressed with the quality which I could get with a mini DV Camera.
Now I get all this Pixel artifacts all over and the animation of the still images I have inserted is just a joke! I mean I can`t show this to anybody it´s just embarrassing
I`ve done the upgrade to 5.02 and I deleted the Final Cut 4.0 Preferences. I used the DVD Best Quality 90 Min 4:3 settings, my source material is 25frame Pal Material from a Panasonic AGDVX 100A
I n my opinion I shouldn`t even have to think about trying to work around and outputting quicktime files from Final Cut like discussed in other threads. O.k. I guess I will finally have to do it.
But I`m just frustrated and baffled how something like this could be released. I´ve never seen such a major bug on a software release on the mac since I started workin with it 12 years ago.
If there`s any hint what to do (other then the workaround described in other threads) Thanks a lot guys!
Werner

If you want to provide feedback to Apple, do it though the following link:
http://www.apple.com/feedback/finalcutpro.html
Posting here in the Apple Discussions will not produce any type of official response from Apple.
In the meantime, you might want to try a high bitrate one-pass CBR encoding.

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