Finalize & Export to iDVD

I finished a small movie, with titles, transitions and music, and when I exported to idvd and then burned on a dvd, the video was choppy and pixelated on the tv.
Are there any finalization steps that need to be done to avoid this, that iMovie or iDVD don't already do when you export to idvd or burn to a dvd?
Thanks!

Don't send your iMovies to iDVD from within iMovie. You will cause double rendering and the result is the jaggy pixelation you have found.
Better to save and close iMovie. Then open iDVD and create your project.
(Even at this point, it will be faster and easier to redo the iDVD project).
Then, in iDVD, go to Media/ Movies and locate your iMovie. Drag its icon directly onto iDVD's main screen, being careful not to put it into a Drop Zone.
Now, you can burn the DVD. Use a good brand of DVD, like Verbatim DVD-R, or Maxell. Most of us have had inconsistencies with Memorex.
It is recommended that you burn your iDVD project as a disk image first, and burn the DVD from the disk image using Disk Utility (in Applications/Utilities).
Create Disk Image
If the Disk Image is good, the resultant DVD will be the same.
Burn DVD from Disk Image
See if this process improves your movie on DVD.

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