Help- FCExpress videos look terrible when burned on iDVD

What am I doing wrong here? I am editing my SD DV-Cam videos in Final Cut Express and exporting as Quicktime movies using the following compression:
Compression: H.264
Quality: Best
Dimensions: 721x540
The DVD's look great when played on the computer, but horrible when played on my television through my DVD player (the pixelate and stripe, particularly when there is lots of movement)
Should I be using a different compression?

Hello John,
I've a couple of different workflows depending on what I want and which version you're running (and on what machine) but generally this is the process. It is recommended that you export your timeline as QT movie even if you use Compressor (and not send to Compressor from within FCE/FCP) because it has the nasty habit of re-rendering your timeline,which adds to the already long encoding times of Compressor 2 and later. If your mac is not very powerful, you can let DVDSP do the encoding - the encoder is based on Compressor, but seems to be a bit faster.
What is not recommended is that, for example, you export your DV PAL timeline using QT Conversion with the exact same settings as in your sequence ... QT will re-encode the sequence (rather than just writing the file) and the outcome usually is flawed. Any other conversion (e.g. h.264) I'd run through compressor - that is if you have the time and want high quality.
hope this helps
mish

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