IMovie Sharing to iDVD

I'm working on a couple projects that amount to placing pictures in a project and dropping audio behind them. Once I get this all done, I preview it in iMovie, and it looks fine. I share the project to iDVD, and once everything is ready there, I preview it again. When I go to burn the project, or save as an image or VIDEO_TS folder, everything gets, for lack of a better descriptor, pixely. I've tried all three encoding settings, all with the same result. During testing, I've tried this with projects ranging from a few minutes to an hour or so. The photos are 3000 pixels by 4500 pixels or so, so resolution shouldn't be an issue. I never had this problem before Snow Leopard, so did they change something in that update? I was able to get a final project that will pass as acceptable by sharing to the media browser at the HD setting. My question is, is there a way to get the Share to iDVD option to work? Also which encoding setting in iDVD will produce the best picture?
Thanks

I also burn movies to PAL DVD but the quality really does drop a lot from the original file. That aside, the way I do this is open iDVD then click the media icon to the right of the window. This will access audio, photos and movies (make sure your original edited imovie project has been exported, as a stand-alone movie,using share/export using quicktime to the Movies folder. Don't use the share to iDVD option). You can then just drag and drop the movie file to the iDVD window, add your titles, menus and stuff, then burn to DVD, or you can save your iDVD project for later additions and editing. Also, set the iDVD preferences to PAL, burn at professional quality. The bit I don't get yet is what is the best format to share/export to using Quicktime my IMovie project. There's AIC, DVPRO, H.264 etc etc.

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  • Low quality of burned DVD even if I drag&drop iMovie project into iDVD

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