Image Quality loss when exporting to compressor's MPEG-2

Hello peeps.
My issue is that once I've finished my ridiculous 1 hr (anaorphic) edit with FCP I wish to put it onto DVD (4.7GB) and have choosen 90min best etc on compressor but when I come to view the footage again from the newly created file it looks like someone's gone to it with a knife around the edges.
Does all the footage need to be de-interlaced? Surely not.
It seems to mostly effect any movement within the screen.
Yet as a quicktime file it looks fine but that happens to be over 10GB and thus will not fit onto a normal DVD.

What are you viewing it on...the computer monitor? Are you simply opening the M2V file and playing it on the computer? If it's interlaced material, you're probably seeing the jaggies that can happen when a progressive display is showing a raw interlaced image without deinterlacing it for playback like some programs do automatically. If this is so, burn your DVD and watch it on a TV or NTSC/PAL Monitor, and check to see if it's still funky. Chances are it will be fine, otherwise, you may have something going on with incorrect field rendering somewhere along the line.

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