Final cut to idvd, burning for tv EMERGENCY!!!

We have a last minute emergency deadline to burn a dvd that will play on a tv that we just can't get around. Trying to make a dvd using final cut pro hd, idvd 5.0.1. We're exporting as a quicktime conversion using h.264 for best performance. We've also tried exporting as a quicktime movie for dvdstudio pro version 1.5 and it comes up as an error of file type in dvdstudio pro.
When it plays back it starts getting all pixelated toward the middle of the film and then it even shifts to a letterboxed look from full screen about 1/2 way in. HELP! thanks so much. we have minutes left and have been working on it all week.

i did 2 small projects in iDVD, was dissapointed, did some searching and found a "general consensus" that iDVD is not up to par with professional dvd creation programs.
regarding mpeg2 ... the original poster mentioned dvdsp version 1.5, this is actually the program i "learned" dvd creation on (version 1), and was instructed to use mpeg2 only. (m2v file extension)
but, since this is only a recollection of something ancient, i could be wrong.
sorry for confusing someone if i am.

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