DVD Studio will not encode my quick time files!!

Okay, so I know that I can run my files through compressor and make MPEG2's to burn in DVD Studio Pro. But it is just an extra step for what I do because usually we need a quick time file also to post to our website. When I drop any .mov file into DVD Studio it gives me an error while encoding... What can I do? are my codecs wrong? HELP!!!

Okay, the dimensions on one of my files is 720x480.
the codec i am using is DV/DVCpro - NTSC, Integer
(big endian), timecode.
The frame rate is most likely 29.97 or whatever
digital video is. It is not 24fps.
Well, your frame size is OK. Check the frame rate to make absolutely sure it's 29.97 (since you said it's not 24 fps) and not something slightly different.
Having your disc project set to PAL instead of NTSC shouldn't cause the error, even if you bring in NTSC assets. At least, it didn't cause errors on DVDSP 4 when I tried it just now.

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