DVDSP pixillating burn and build!!

I've got an uncompressed 8-bit short film that needs burning.
Everything goes smoothly, except there is significant quality loss when playing back the DVD. So I've done a build too, and played that back on 'DVD Player'...same problem.
I'ts a pixillation on pretty much the whole film, and gets unwatchable with movement. i'm going through compressor at the moment, but fear compressing it twice will give me worse results.
Any advice appreciated.

You are better off using Compressor the m2v will not be recompressed if placed on a track.
What it is the time of the movie? (It will affect the video rate you can use take a look here http://dvdstepbystep.com/faqs_7.php)
What was the original footage and how did you edit in FCP? (Could be something there.) Also you can try adjusting the frame controls in Compressor to see if it helps more, or perhaps see if another encoder, such as bitVice, www.innobits.se, may work better for you. Which version of Final Cut/DVD SP are you using and what type of iMac do you have?

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Chris,
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Hi there,
I don't know where to begin, so I'd love some
advice.
Sounds like a big project
My question is this: once I get them into Avid, and
before burning them onto DVD, I'd like to organize
them into seasons and years; I'd like to make sure
every story in each show is titled, etc. In other
words, make the DVDs look professional - - and DVD
Studio Pro may be the right tool for me to use,
right? I've never used it, but I'm guessing this is
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So my second question may better the better one,
because I know even less about this next step: the
couple times I've burned a DVD using my G4, it's
taken forever. I simply won't have enough hours in
the day to do this for all the DVDs I'd like to burn
(let's say, a DVD for each season, which is twenty in
all, but with multiple requests for every one).
Not sure if it is burning or encoding that is hanging you up. The assets (video etc.) need to be converted to m2vs themselves then muxed then burned. The encodiing then muxing takes thee time, the burns not that much. Always better to encode outside of DVD SP then bring into DVD SP. You have tons of hours of material, and software encoding takes a long time (on a DP G5 I get about 5 hours for every 1 hour of video give or take, sometimes quicker.) Lacie makes a hardware encoder which does a nice job, hooks up by firewire and is $100 US and encodes 1 hour in 1 hour (once it is DV). Maybe not quite as good as some software encoders (talking Mac here) but I did alot of A/Bing and for the most part not noticiable..
Should I invest in a dedicated DVD-burner? If so,
how does it work. Is it attached to my G4, and I
simply burn from within DVD Studio Pro right to this
thing? Does it have a hard drive large enough to
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MPEG-2 I have never used a external DVD Burner unit (assuming a tower or something) as oppossed to just an external DVD Burner (none tower, just drive?)
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so maybe all twenty
DVDs-worth will fit onto the DVD-burner.
It would be great if all twenty could fit, and then
stay there, so if someone suddenly writes in wanting
a certain show or a particular story, I could easily
find it on the DVD-burner, and burn it, without
having to go back to my G4.
Sorry for rambling - - I hope this makes sense.
Any advice would be most appreciated.
mhcbc
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