Horizontal jagged edges after compression

I am new to Prores and compressor and have done a lot of reading on workflows. I think I have it set up correctly but am not getting the results I expected. I am shooting 1440x1080 60i HDV with an FX1. I have FCP setup to use a Prores 422 1440x1080 60i 48khz sequence capturing with Prores 422 1440x1080 60i 48khz from an HDV tape. It looks fine in FCP. I send the sequence to Compressor 3.5 and am using the standard Apple DVD Best quality 90 min setup (it's only about 60 min of footage). After it compresses I put it into DVDSP setup for 16:9 SD DVD. When I build and burn it with Toast Titanium the playback looks bad. It has horizontal jagged edges around peoples' shoulders, faces, background etc. When I look at the inspector for the clip in compressor it looks like deinterlacing is on, but I haven't checked the deinterlacing option.
Is there something I'm missing? From everything I've read this seems to be the way I should be capturing and compressing. Thanks!

Sorry. I am building with DVDSP. I'm using Toast to burn the final dvd. I tried burning a disc with DVDSP and I didn't get any video for some reason, only audio.
Unfortunately the only way for me to view the material until it is burned is on my main monitor.
So if I don't turn on the deinterlace option in DVDSP my final product should be interlaced, correct?

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