Dvd is jumpy

I burned a dvd with images from imovie and the photos are fluttering slightly on the dvd. Otherwise, the photo quality is great with no pixilation. I had created the project in idvd and dragged in the movie. Previously, I had reduced the size of the photos to 640x480 in iphoto before exporting to imovie as a DV project for standard screens. Is there a setting I missed along the way? Or is there anything else I can do to try to stop the flutter on the dvd? The images also look a bit too bright, though I can live with that. There is also one audio problem: a background track from a Stevie Wonder song is missing on the dvd. The other songs are fine. Is there a way to fix this? Thanks for any help.

These instructions don't address fluttering images. On another discussion board there was a tip to scale the images to 640x480 to improve photo quality by reducing pixilation. So that's why I did that. .... The song is from a CD. It plays fine on the Quicktime version of this movie for the web but not on the dvd.

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"used compressor to to create the mpeg file at a high bit rate" - Maybe your bit rate is too high. DVD players can sometimes choke if the bitrate is too high. A computer can usually handle it which could be why it only happens in the DVD player.
The first thing to try is to use AC3 audio if you're not already, which will reduce the overall DVD bitrate. In compressor 2.0, I believe the preset is Dolby 2.0.
If that doesn't work, then try recompressing that clip using a lower video bitrate.

Burned DVD is jumpy and blurry

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Well, if you used a HDD (Hard Disk Drive) camera, the material was likely recorded with heavy compression, like MPEG-2. When that footage is edited, and then Transcoded to a DVD, it will be compressed again, resulting in poorer quality.
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Check the Field Order (the scan that gets shown first on a TV) between your source footage and your your Export - NTSC DVD is UFF (Upper Field First). What is the Field Order of your camera's footage. The great, free utility, G-SPOT, will tell you, if you do not know.
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I've noticed discussion http://forums.adobe.com/message/1753696#1753696 which also uses a Sony camcorder. Could it be the same issue?
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Width
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Height
: 480 pixels
Display aspect ratio
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Frame rate
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Standard
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Color space
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Chroma subsampling
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Bit depth
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Scan order
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Compression mode
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Bits/(Pixel*Frame)
: 0.397
Stream size
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I created a slideshow using lightroom3 at 1070p with music. After transferring the slideshow to a DVD I could not play it back on my iMac without a lot of skipping. Any ideas? Different Video card??

As I said, I've not used Lightroom (and I tried to find some info on the Adobe website, but they like to make it difficult to find things - the only thing easy to find was the "buy" button LOL).
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flash - again few computers have this installed, picture quality is not as good as WMV and the image size must be kept small, the user would need to install Flash Player if not already installed
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Hi
One can do this in better or worse ways.
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Bad way is to make a PAL movie and drop this into a NTSC iDVD project.
- YES iDVD will convert it into NTSC - BUT the resulting DVD will play very bad and jumpy !
- I do my projects (most oftennin PAL) and then Export them as full quality QuickTime.mov
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