Good-looking quicktime movie looks crummy once burned to dvd

Hi. I made a cool home movie in Final Cut Express; exported it into a quicktime movie - looked good when I played it in quicktime. Then I burned it to a dvd-r (about 60 minutes of footage), and when I played the dvd on my dvd player on the tv, it looked crummy?
Any advice?
Thanks.

All sorts of advice, but we will need more specifics to be of more help. For one, define crummy. What version of QT and OS X? How was the movie exported from FCE? iDVD expects a DV file... if you exported out of FCE using some sort of compression (other than DV ) that isn't good. What was your source material? Here is a link to some common info: http://www.videohelp.com/dvd
Mike

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thanks...that helps...i've been watching it back on
the computer monitor..guess i'll have to do a quick
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If a video monitor is not convenient, then you can see an aproximation of the quality you'd see in a video monitor if you do the following: Zoom out your Canvas to precisely 100% and Uncheck Sq. Pixels in the Zoom pop up. You may need to resize the Canvas to see the whole image and if you are working with a small computer screen.

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The current Apple thinking is that the entire world has access to fast broadband and wants to distribute home movies to friends and relatives via download (iCloud) rather than mailing them a DVD. The fact that nothing could be further from the truth has so far had no effect on this policy. If you scream and shout loudly enough down the phone Apple may send you a free copy of iDVD. That worked for some, but is now said to have been withdrawn by Apple. Also, you can complain bitterly here, perhaps suggesting that Apple could have provided a choice between using iCloud and burning DVDs:
http://www.apple.com/feedback/
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