IDVD 5.01 movie loses height while playing

Hello.
I am burning a DVD-R (Memorex 16x) in iDVD 5.01 on my Mac G5 Quad.
The content is a 5 minute Quicktime movie - rendered 720x480 non-square pixels 29.97, animation codec, audio 48kHz/16/stereo.
The movie looks fine when I play it in Quicktime.
But --- when i view the DVD-Rs I burned - both on my computer (in DVD Player 4.6.5 and on my low end Panasonic DVD player) they begin full screen, but after 10 seconds or so, they cut to a shape that isn't as tall. The width stays the same. It's distracting and looks like a mistake.
I'm trying to get a perfect DVD w/o flaws.
Any suggestions? What's going on with this?
Thanks and best wishes,
Richard Brooker
g5 quad Mac OS X (10.4.5)

Hi Richard
Never read this before but it looks like You are saying that the movie
becomes "letter-boxed" after a while ?
Could be a problem in the pref file in iDVD. So I would make a new
account as it forces iDVD to make a new pref-file (and iMovie also)
then redo a disk-image. Test and see if this is OK
You are hopfully aware of the overscann problem when viewing Your
movie on a TV-set. But Your question doesn't read like that that's
the problem.
- and I don't use the export to iDVD from within iMovie but
close iMovie and locate the project icon. Drop this into a selected
theme window in iDVD - This way gives less problems for ME.
Your Bengt W

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