IDVD 6 (after burning) has "moving" parts in a still picture

I went to Israel in March. I came back with many, many pictures and all the audio clips from our tour guide. I have been putting together movies for the past month, night and day. I found out that working in iMovie, on a G5 dual 2.0 GHz (2 GB RAM) or MacBookPro w/1 GB RAM, it was best to leave the movie at about 57 minutes because the spinning beach ball appears too often if I didn't.
Between the 2nd DVD and the 3rd DVD I've had all sorts of problems. I am taking pictures from iphoto to iMovie (using Media Tab) and these are pictures as is. Nothing has been done to them. I then find the clip that matches the place we were and work with it as much as possible so the pictures match what the guide is talking about.
Once the 50+ minutes is done and iMovie starts slowing down, I share to iDVD, create my theme (usually using Pass Through, but I have tried others) and burn the DVD. It takes 3 hours on my G5.
The iMovie runs fine and the iDVD runs fine before burning. I DO NOT render in iMovie as I found the pictures were horrible (pixelated, etc.).
I then watch the movie to see that all is well. About 5 minutes into this 3rd one, the branches/leaves of the olive tree start to "move". Or the grass, or hair on a donkey, or rocks where it looks as if they are alive with tiny little moving piecses on the rock. More like a shaking or jiggling. Sometimes it will stop, other times it will continue and get worse until it's very pixelated.
Finally I thought it was the audio. I tried taking the audio, which was an aiff file, open into QT, and then export as AAC. I removed the areas I thought were causing the problems. Sometimes it works, sometimes not. I booted into Panther and used the iLife 05 that I have.
I am now making a QT compression to see what that does. One iMovie/DVD I worked on for 12 solid nights after work and 1 entire weekend. Same result. Then I finally removed some of the audio (an Olympus digital recorder was used) and it worked for #2 DVD. Maybe a little "movement" but enough to scrape by.
Has anyone run across this before? Tonight I'm trying a different type of DVD. Memorex instead of Verbatim.
Nanc

My motto with these projects: KISS. You are not doing that....
Tonight I'm trying a different type of DVD. Memorex instead of Verbatim.
I wouldn't do that. Verbatim DVD-R burned at 4X or slower is your best bet. If you create a disk image from iDVD, you can control the burn speed. See below.
Suggest you create a disc image and then burn the DVD. File/Save As Disc Image...
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=164927
This will isolate any encoding/burning issues you may encounter. Once the disc image is created, double-click the .img and burn the virtual disc that should appear on your desktop, using Toast to burn the DVD. Disk Utility to burn the .img file. Usually, you can select a burning speed in Disk Utility.
There are variations to this process based on which OS X you are using...
Open Disk Utility (in Utilities folder in Applications folder), click on the virtual disc (maybe the .img) in the left-hand window. Click the Burn icon. A new window should drop down and your SuperDrive tray will open after clicking the Burn icon. Insert a recordable DVD. (Verbatim DVD-R preferred by me.) Click the Close button. Wait. Select a burn speed. Then click the Burn button.
-->If the virtual disk selection won't allow you to click the Burn icon, use the .img file instead. This may have changed in 10.3.9 and did change in Tiger.
Also, you can use DVD Player to play the virtual disk to check your iDVD project before burning to DVD. Launch DVD Player. File/Open VIDEO_TS (Open DVD Media... in Player 4.6). Find the VIDEO_TS folder and open that. (The audio folder is for DVD-Audio disks.)
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=93006
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