Final Cut to iDVD/ 2 problems

I have a project I created in FCexpress. When I play the movie in Quicktime it looks fine. However when I created the DVD the picture leaves trails anytime there's motion. Also I seem to have lost stereo, I only noticed because it was only playing half of one of the songs on the soundtrack.?!
What am I doing wrong?

Hi
Your question demands mind reading. Sorry not capable.
Please explain How did You go from FinalCut to iDVD.
I do:
• Save as QuickTime.mov (NOT SELFCONTAINED or by QuickTime conversion)
• This movie icon I just drop into iDVD
This works very good for me.
In iDVD I:
• select Pro Quality encoding
• under iDVD Preferences I go to advance and select x1 burn speed
• I only use Verbatim DVD-R disks
• I have a minimum of 25Gb free space on my internal (start-up) hard disk
• Never mix .avi, .wmv or .mp3 or other alient file formats in my movies
only streamingDV (.dv) and audio as .aiff (convert to this if necessary)
Result: near 100% luck
Yours Bengt W

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