DVD fluttering

Created a movie of slides, using iMovie HD 6.0.3 with 2 audio tracts, moved to iDVD 08, incorporated opening and closing theme clips, then saved as a disc image. Burned at 1x onto a Verbatim DVD-R disc, encoded "professional quality". The product plays with good audio, no skipping or hesitation, but there is intermittent fluttering of the video which sometimes "seems" to be in rhythm with the music. It can occur at any time, and comes and goes on the same music tract, but occurs on other tracts as well. Thanks for your help.

Two Things.
How long is your movie? If it is under 60 min you don't need to use Professional Quality and that could actually be messing it up. If nothing else works, try using a different brand of DVD.
Here are some other posts that you might find interesting...
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=1466164&tstart=0
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=1434555&tstart=3

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