Compressor leaving black frames in mpeg 2

Hi, when I render out an HDV Quicktime down to SD (PAL 625 50i) mpeg2 for DVD using Quick Cluster in Qmaster, I'm getting a faster render ok but the final mv2 file has a black frame at every point where the Compressor segmented the original file to spread it across the clusters. eg. if the original HDV movie is say, 2 minutes long and Compressor/Qmaster processes it in 4 segments, then there will be a black frame every 30 secs. Any ideas???

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