Flickering dvd

I have made a few DVDs from my video camera, and I encounter the following problem:
When viewing the recording on TV directly from the video camera, the quality is very good. However, when viewing the DVD, the picture is flickering. My last DVD was rather short and I could use highest/best quality in the preferences, but the result is the same. I have used DVD+R discs

Hi
1. iDVD 6 has two levels of qualities.
• Best Quality (movies up to 120 min) - slightly lower quality than - se below
• Best Performances (movies less than 60 min) - Highest quality on final DVD
in iDVD’08 there is even a Pro-Quality (120 min) - very good.
2. From FCE/P - Export out as full quality QuickTime.mov
iMovie - Don't use ”Share/Export to iDVD” = destructive even to movie project and especially so
when the movie includes photos.
Instead just drop or import the iMovie movie project icon (with a Star on it) into iDVD theme window.
3. I use Toast™ to make an as slow burn as possibly eg x1 (in iDVD’08 this can also be set)
4. There has to be about or *more than 25Gb free space* on internal (start-up) hard disc. iDVD can't
use an external one as scratch disk (if it is not start-up disc).
5. Verbatim ( also recommende by many - Taiyo Yuden DVDs - I can’t get hold of it to test )
6. DVD-R (I don't use DVD+R or +/-RW)
7. NTSC iMovie projects - to - NTSC iDVD projects - resp
PAL iMovie projects - to - PAL iDVD projects
Yours Bengt W

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