Fades look bad once burned to DVD

I have standard-def (NTSC) DV footage of a concert (probably filmed in LP mode, as it was a long concert) that I'm doing very simple work on in FCP (I'm replacing the audio with a better recording, and trimming ends). Whenever I put in a fade from or to black, it looks terrible on a DVD. The back wall of the stage (white, lit more in the center than the edges) shows nasty stair-stepping instead of even gradation from light to dark.
What I've tried so far:
Working the sequence on a DV timeline (how I started, as the tape is DV); using sequences with ProRes 422 NTSC, Uncompressed 8-bit, and Uncompressed 10-bit settings, and rendering the captured footage to the sequence; using both opacity and dissolves (I tried Cross Dissolve, Fade In Fade Out Dissolve, and Additive Dissolve, all with slugs abutting the clip); exporting to Compressor directly, and encoding in 2-pass VBR Best, 1-pass VBR, and 1-pass CBR; and exporting a QT movie, then going to Compressor and trying those three settings.
OK, so I'm pretty new at this, and I know I'm working with less than ideal source footage, but I have read the manuals and searched the forums. There has to be a way to make a fade look decent, right folks? Right?
Thank you to all in advance. PS: I can't quite tell if my problem is in FCP, Compressor, or DVDSP. On the FCP timeline, there seems to be some of the stairstepping, but it doesn't look nearly as awful as it does on the final DVD. So if I posted in the wrong forum, please excuse me and redirect me to where I should post.

It's not the source material, it's your encoding settings. You need to use a higher bitrate.
working in ProRes from DV source is a waste of everything, especially disk space, but also time. You achieve nothing.
How long is your show?
If you go directly to Compressor for your MPG2, you can make several adjustments but explaining them is way beyond these little posties. You can achieve a bit more video headroom by processing your soundtrack separately to AC3. Again, beyond the scope of a mere forum thread. It's all in the manual and in various DVDSP tutorials located here and there around the net. Be sure to explore
http://www.dvplace.com/index.html
http://www.digitalcontentproducer.com/
http://www.dvdrhelp.com/
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