IDVD quality very poor

Hi,
I have H.264 footage from a 5D MkII edited in iMovie and burnt in iDVD. When playing back the project in iDVD (before burn) the quality is fine but once its on disc the quality is so poor, extremely crunchy, pixelated and beyond acceptable. I've even converted the footage in MPEG stremclip and NeoScene to test the results but same results.
PLEASE HELP!!!
Thankyou

Hi
As I get it it depends on what You feed iDVD and how in a way.
I go direktly from iMovie 5 or HD 6 (iMovie 08 & 09 are not for DVD making!)
I don't use Export/Share to iDVD from within iMovie. If there are photos included
and no Ken-Burns effect. Result will be BAD due to iMovie rendering and iMovie
movie project is harmed - photos has to be re-imported and edited in again.
Now I close iMovie and from iDVD import the movie project resulting in iDVD doing the rendering
and so much better.
From FinalCut Express or Pro I do
• Export out as QuickTime .mov
• Not selfcontainong
• NO QuickTime Conversion
• Pro Quality Encoding
• Verbatim DVD-R disks
• x1 or x4 burn speed
• 25Gb or more free space on internal boot hard disk
This works nicely and delivers a result as I intended
Using strange file formats like
• .avi, .wmv will give strange if any result
• .H.264 - Should may be work - have nothing to put on test - or may be not working
Yours Bengt W

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