Freeze Frame Jittery in DVD

I did a freeze-frame on the last frame of a video segment. I saved the frame as the default .bmp format. I then made it 7 seconds in length with a fade-out.
My problem is that when burned to a DVD, instead of being solid, the freeze frame jitters badly.
It seems smooth in PRE (v7). It seems smooth when I play the exported .AVI in Windows Media Player (although it looks all interlace-y). I was going to try "Frame Blend", which fixes some jitters on time-stretched video, but that option is grayed out for stills.
Is there something I can do to prevent the jitter? It really ruins the effect I was going for!

Well, good news! I got it working. My freeze frame is now rock-solid!!
I did the Flicker Removal - that's a good tip to know. It's now on my "cheat sheet".
One odd thing I noticed was when I opened the "freeze frame" .BMP that PRE had generated, the .BMP itself had interlace lines in it! Obviously I didn't want that, so I did the freeze frame again. But this time, the exported .BMP was fine (no interlace lines).
I don't think I did anything differently. About the only thing I can think of is that currently the clip is Time Stretched and Frame > Blended. Maybe when I did the original freeze frame (that gave me an interlaced .BMP) it was either not Time Stretched and/or not Frame > Blended?

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I'm new to FCE. Actually, I'm new to video.
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Thanks Piero!
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I have some freeze frames in a project in FCP HD 4.5 (a ntsc, dv project). These frames look fine when they play on the cinema display.
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