From Photoshop to Final Cut Express to iDVD Problem

I can't seem to figure it out. I'm creating a widescreen presentation. I'm using photoshop to create a slide, I then export it into final cut express to create a slide show. When I export it using file>export>quicktime movie... the quality looks terrible, and isn't in 16:9. It looks pushed together, and font looks incredibly blurry.
When I export using quicktime conversion (which I think takes the chapters ability away) it looks great cause I export to extremely high settings. Then when I insert the movie into iDVD, its back in 4:3 nasty pushed together mode.
WHAT AM I DOING WRONG!
thanks,
Shawn

And just to clarify a bit. Anything I'm exporting, even if its widescreen footage, using file<export<quicktime movie... is 4:3. Why the **** is this happening?

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Import files from final cut express to idvd. When we are making a dvd in iDVD importing the files (widescreen mov files ) from final cut express they automatically change to 4x3. They look correct when played in the quicktime player. Has anyone had this problem.

Generally, I just drag the DV file from the finder to the iDVD menu window. Make sure you don't drag it to any Drop Zones, I think that might be your problem with the DV file showing up as the background. If you have default settings in iDVD, this drag and drop should then create submenus based on your chapter markers.
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Then I found the original file using finder, and dragged it into Final Cut Express, which did put the file there, and I can hear the audio in the sample player, but when I try to play it in the sequence, this weird beeping happens.
The beeping is relating to audio you have placed into your sequence that doesn't match your sequence settings, therefore needing to be rendered.
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(I'm not sure whether I understand your problem but here goes. Maybe there is no problem after all?).
Basically iDVD wants .dv or .mov -- it insists on encoding MPEG2 itself.
So: if your source is DV from a camcorder, you should use a DV stream .dv file (or DV-encoded .mov file) as an input to iDVD so there are no lesser quality intermediary codecs (like MPEG2!) ruining the final output to MPEG2.
Notice also that by default QT Player has a low resolution playback of DV files so don't judge the quality by that! You can turn on high quality playback via QT Player to see all quality (and maybe also those interlacing comb lines that are normal...).
BTW, AFAIK a long time there used to be an Apple MPEG2 encoder plug-in for QT but AFAIK it doesn't work with new Mac OS versions and has been superseded by Compressor. And if you use iDVD, you don't need either of them anyway.

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is there a semi-easy way to get a Final Cut Express project into iDVD??
i realize i can use all sorts of compression settings and even export it to a DV stream,
but it takes quite a while considering the duration of the video...
also, the project i'm working on right now is in widescreen,
and it has trouble even keeping it at the proper resolution when exporting to quicktime movie..
it's somewhere in between 16:9 and 4:3
it looks squished...
anyway...
i'm thinking about saving it back to the tape,
and then importing it into iMovie,
and then from iMovie to iDVD
I'd do the 'one-step-dvd' feature,
but the resolution is terrible...
this seems like an annoying workaround that will discourage me from even using FinalCut (i have limited hard drive space... so two projects with uncompressed clips of 2 hour length are out of the question)
please let me know if i'm completely missing out on some feature...
since Final Cut Express isn't packaged with anything else for DVD authoring, i would think this is a fairly common problem...
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-Nate

1) Have you tried exporting as quicktime movie, but ensure that the 'Make Movie Self-Contained' unchecked. This will save you conversion time and converting when it is typically not necessary (unless iDVD is on another Mac). i.e. here is a more detailed of what i am get at http://www.fcpbook.com/Misc2.html
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