Inferior quality and speed of DVD rip, edit, and burn

I recently ripped, edited,(deleted a scene) and burned a new DVD which I might say took a very long time. It played fine on my computer, but wasn't quite DVD quality when viewed on our T.V. I was wondering if someone could tell me if it was the software I used to rip,(used a trial version of iSkysoft DVD ripper) or the editing which I used iMovie '08 or the burning process, which I used iDVD? Is there any software that can produce top quality DVDs that will run on my iMac? And is there any way to speed all this up or is my iMac just not powerful enough?

When that DVD was created first the images on it were heavily compressed to meet the DVD standard. Then you ripped this compressed material, edited it and then made a new DVD - and creating this second DVD means the already compressed material as further compressed to make the second DVD. The quality failing is due to the fact that the material has been compressed twice.
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