Help! my video looks distorted!

I created a movie (mostly using still photos) on final cut express and when previewing it in final cut AND when viewing it after it was burnt to a dvd....it looks distorted. There's a bunch of lines all over the place...which makes the stills unclear and it's especially more obvious when using the ken burns effect. Does anyone know what's going on? Please help!

First, I click the effects tab>video>de-interlace. I then drag the de-interlace icon that is in the effects tab to a still picture in the timeline. When I double click on the picture in the timeline, I then click on the filters tab in the viewer window. De-interlace is shown under the video filters list. I have tried all options under de-interlace (lower-odd, lower-even, flicker filter-minimal, flicker filter-medium,filter flicker-max) and they all do not work. When I preview it, it looks like there's a slight blur to the picture. But after I render the video, those jagged lines still appear on all straight edges in the picture. I have burnt the video to dvd, using idvd, and it still looks the same when I view it on my TV. Is there another way to view the video on the TV before burning it to a DVD so that I do not have to waste anymore DVDs? Am I adding the de-interlace incorrectly? Please, please, please help me! It's so frustrating and my movie is due next week, so I need to figure this out real quick. Thank you guys for trying to help

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