Exporting - picture quality is ghosting

I'm editing a wedding taken with a home HD camcorder, but Im' getting ghosting when the people move or the camera moves (which happens often). This isn't in the playback in Final Cut or when I watch the exported Quicktime file on my computer, but when I try to burn a DVD it's a problem. Any suggestions?

The format is just a basic Quicktime movie. No idea if it's interlaced. I see it on the computer if I play the DVD, but when I just watch the Quicktime file the motion is a little bit messy (best word I can describe it) but not actually ghosting.

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Bill Bennett
Date: Fri, 2 Sep 2011 07:33:04 -0600
From: [email protected]
To: [email protected]
Subject: Using Premiere Pro CS3 When exporting as flash file poor picture quality
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