I NEED HELP CONVERTING A MOVIE FILE INTO A DVD

So this is my problem.
I have FCE and made a movie. Now, after i rendered it and used iDVD to make a DVD, it works and everything, BUT when i play back the DVD on any DVD player, the picture is not that great and at points looks like a bad TV reception.
I have a SONY handycam and this is what i used to captured the footage so i dont know if i need a HD camcorder. So my question is how do i make my DVD's look smooth??? does it have to do with the way i am rendering the movie, saving it, capturing it????Please let me know. Thank you

When you have finished editing in FCE this is the setting you MUST use:-
File>Export>QuickTime Movie. (For speed, deselect the "Make Movie Self-contained" box).
You must NOT use QuickTime CONVERSION.
The QT Movie is then dragged into iDVD etc.
This will produce good quality DVDs.
If you get jitter you may have to apply FCE's De-interlace Filter.

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    ffmpeg-mt. This is an experimental multi-threaded version of the libavcodec decoding library, which is used by ffdshow. You can select ffmpeg-mt as decoder in ffdshow video decoder configuration.
    MPC DXVA H.264 decoder. This is an internal decoder of Media Player Classic Homecinema. It uses your graphics card to perform most of the decoding process, resulting is a very low CPU usage. You can enable this decoder though: MPC Options -> Internal Filters. Note: this decoder has some specific requirements.
    I downloaded the DivX bundle and will pull out that codec. I bought the CoreAVC for $13 but Norton said it was a risky file when I downloaded it ... (I have a question into the site about that) and I will try the ffmpeg-mt codec as well as see what they say about the last one. I will also try to undo everything I did that happened I guess before QuickTime started to export so slow that it is not even worth it to try and convert a mov file into H264.
    Sorry so long ... I just was trying to lay out the things I have attempted, will attempt to try and improve the situation.
    Thanks again very much if anyone makes it thru this ... geez .. sorry.

    Hello Tim,
    I decided to do a clean install, a fresh new installation of windows and all its updates, I didn't get the option of
    install SP1 yet.
    After that I only installed Catalyst drivers: 11.5 and Realtek HD audio drivers, all downloaded on May 24 2011.
    Then latest FFDShow and MPC-HC to test, both x64 versions Nothing else installed.
    Only a fresh copy of windows with its updates and those mentioned drivers.
    To my surprise, it happened a gain.
    It still crashes after a while when playing MKV videos.
    It's weird, because it doesn't happen with avi's or mp4's.
    So, there must be something wrong with one of windows updates that creates this windows FREEZE.
    Also there is no possibility to find out what error it is in "Event Viewer" as nothing gets recorded there. Anyone could
    advise?
    Thanks

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