Interlaced and choppy looking video

Hi,
I have a 16:9 NTSC Motion menu I am trying to encode in compressor for DVDSP. Unfortunately, when compressed with DVD: Best Quality 90 minutes preset (even at 23.97 FPS, progressive) it still looks choppy with interlace artifacting. If I drop it right in DVDSP, it looks pretty good... when nothing is moving, but when there is some animation, the edges of my objects look like hair combs, ya' feel me? What am I doing wrong, are there any glaring red flags here? Thank you!

What kind of display are you viewing this on? What kind of displays do you want to play this DVD on? Have you actually tried watching it on a regular TV through a regular DVD player?
If you are going to watch this on a progressive display (LCD TV, computer monitor etc.), go progressive. Progressive video will look fine on an interlaced display, maybe not exactly as smooth as interlaced, but good enough (at least good enough for menus).
I would recommend reading this:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interlace
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Progressive_scan
Progressive is the future, at least for HDTV in Europe
http://www.ebu.ch/en/technical/trev/trev_301-editorial.html
http://www.ebu.ch/en/technical/trev/trev_300-wood.pdf
http://www.ebu.ch/fr/technical/trev/trev_308-hdtv.pdf

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