DVD burn, all blurred pictures

Hi, I have been trying to burn a project, pretty short movie only 6mins long, which was filmed in very high quality and looks great on my preview scree, but alll the dics when played back on the PC or the TV are blurred, not sharp. What is my mistake? I am using a DVD +R on PAL setting. Thanks Nadja

Hi, Colleen,
Welcome to the discussions! Sounds as if you are doing everything correctly.
You cannot always guarantee that if preview is fine the burned disk will be ok.
First, try making a disk image. Follow these directions: http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=164927
If that looks good, then perhaps the problem is the media. What are you using?
Verbatim DVD-R is the best...many problems with others.
Try those and see if the color is better.
You also might want to look at this thread, and be sure to do anything Len Goff suggests as he is a real DVD expert: Len Goff, "G4 won't recognize DVD-R" #2, 12:53am Oct 14, 2005 CDT
Post back if this does not help.

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