External tv monitor problems

I'm trying to burn a DVD through a DVD recorder and wanting to see the video on a TV screen attached to the DVD recorder. I have two problems I can't figure out: 1) I'm getting sound and a picture on the TV screen, but the picture is frozen and the sound isn't. 2) I shot in HD 1920x1080, 23.98 fps, and what I'm seeing on the screen is stretched. In the audio/video settings for video playback, it only gives me choices for NTSC 720x480 and not for HD. I have to burn this DVD by today for the client, so can someone assist?
Thanks,
miss2z

If the player connects via Firewire, then the only signal it will record is a DV/NTSC one. DVDs aren't HD, so they cannot record the 1920x1080 signal you are sending it. You need to be in a DV/NTSC sequence in order to send it to the DVD recorder.
You either need to:
1) Make a DV sequence, copy and paste the clips from the HD sequence into the DV one...and then render. THEN play it out...
2) Or export a QT movie, self contained, reimport it, drop it into the DV sequence, render, then play it out.
When you made the DVD through DVD Studio Pro, you MIGHT have made an HD DVD, a format that lost out to BluRay years ago, and one that you need a specific DVD player in order to play (Toshiba). YOu need to use Compressor and use the DVD Best Quality presets, or make sure that you are making an SD DVD, and not an HD DVD, in DVD SP.

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