Dual layer DVD exhibits blurred motion

Have a project that is 2 hours and 35 minutes. Takes up 6.8 gigs. Project info shows yellow in the bars. I originally did a draft in iDVD 08 (using three discs) and all slow motion sequences or any clips with fairly quick motion are fine. To put the project on one disc, burned a dual layer in Studio Pro 4 and same clips have a blurred look to them re: motion.
Am I trying to cram too much on one dual layer DVD? Using Verbatim 8.5 gig DVD's.
thanks in advance for any advice

Hi
It seems you are encoding from inside DVDSP, then probably your encode settings are creating the low quality. Besides that, you must be getting AIFF audio encoding, what takes a lot of the free available space.
My recommendation is to use Compressor to encode your UAdio to AC3 and take the standard High Quality 90 min preset for the video. With that video encoding preset you can fit 90 min in a single layer DVD and double in a dual layer one.
Then import the M2V and AC3 file in DVDSP.
Hope that helps !
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